THE INTERLACE 02
Location: Singapore Architect: Büro Ole Scheeren Review: Erik L’Heureux Photography: Iwan Baan
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BANKSTOWN LIBRARY AND KNOWLEDGE CENTRE 03
Location: Sydney, Australia Architect: Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp Review: Marissa Looby Photography: Christian Mushenko
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18/06/2014 4:21 pm
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pening in April 2014, the Bankstown Library and Knowledge Centre is a gracious and considered design from Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (FJMT), offering much for the local community. Categorised by the architects as a hybrid between adaptive reuse, something completely new and an alteration/addition project; as a result of its unique modifications to the existing town hall building, the new centre provides a seamless transition. Primarily, the new incision is the library, whose entrance is compositionally adjacent to the existing town hall building, but is somewhat awkwardly placed. The town hall building, built in the 1970s, was a simple, rectilinearly planned building, accommodating a main auditorium space. FJMT’s proposal inserted the three-storey library within the old auditorium location, with the upgrade also including a 300-seat theatre, community conference facilities, new cafe and an interactive community information wall at the foyer and entrance. FJMT won the project through an initial competition process, with the Bankstown City Council enthusiastic about the architects’ delivery of this building, citing FJMT’s previously completed Surry Hills Library as a reference point or benchmark throughout. FJMT had been sourced to create a successful →
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01. Paul Keating Park offers an amphitheatre as a continuation of public space 02. Access corridor at the entrance. Plans (right) A Void B Library collection C Green wall D Private study space E Lounge F Multipurpose room
Seminar room Conference room I Local history collection J Store K Group study space L Digital learning curves M IT lab N IT teaching O Dressing rooms P Theatre box Q Podium forecourt R Aquatic sculpture garden S Foyer
Cafe Lobby V Theatre W Library foyer X Information desk Y Reading room Z Children’s area AA Children’s playroom AB Scented reading garden AC Book return AD Library administration AE Green room.
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SHENZHEN BAO’AN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT EXPANSION, TERMINAL 3 04
Location: Shenzhen, China Architect: Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas Review: Austin Williams Photography: Studio Fuksas
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18/06/2014 4:23 pm
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o fly from New York’s John F. Kennedy (JFK) Airport to Shanghai’s Pudong International Airport is to experience the shifting dynamics of global capitalism: from crumbling edifice to shining star. This is an exaggeration for journalistic effect of course, but Pudong’s Terminal 2 is an expansive, contemporary, warm, spacious, spotless delight, while JFK is no better than a grim, 1950s school building, with endless corridors, flaking oil paint, bleak toilets and draughty lobbies. Pudong is full of lively relaxed travellers; JFK has huddled masses. Travelling from Shanghai to New York is like flying back in time, but to fly from Shanghai to Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport is to see the future – a new international airport in southeast China. As is the trademark of its architects, Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas, the architecture is spectacular. Designed to accommodate forty-five million passengers per annum, it has moved from inception to completion in just six years, with the first passengers arriving relatively flawlessly in December 2013. This new terminal marks Shenzhen’s ambition to be a destination city of business, tourism and culture, with the non-coincidental opening of the 2013 →
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01. The 1.5km-long terminal evokes the image of a manta ray 02. Interior panoramic view. Plans (right) A Bus terminal B Bar C Domestic hardstand holdroom D Health check E Passport check / immigration F International arrival baggage claim hall
International arrival customs H Retail I Space for BHS J Garden K International hardstand holdroom L CIP M GTC N VIP building O Waiting area P Reception Q Airline lounge R Bar S Offi ce T Infopoint G
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