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"Public school in the making": the Department of Education building. Photo: Christopher Pearce

One of the two major public buildings on Sydney's Bridge Street should be converted into a much-needed city school, says a group of prominent Australian architects.

The Department of Education building and the adjacent Department of Lands building are being offloaded by the Baird government for "no longer meeting their requirements"after more than a century of civic use.

The architecturally prized landmarks, known as "the sandstones", are being sold on a 99-year lease through an international expressions of interest campaign closing on December 3. The marketing pitch describes it as a "rare" chance for a buyer to convert the two buildings into boutique luxury hotels.

But eight architects and academics are appealing to the Premier and Treasurer to keep the historically significantbuildings in public ownership by realising the Education building's potential as "a Sydney city public school in the making".

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Australian Institute of Architects' gold medallists Richard Leplastrier and Peter Myers, both of whom worked withJornUtzonon the Sydney OperaHouse, are among those who put their names to a letter sent on Saturday.

"Surely here is an unlikely to be repeated opportunity to make a very fine city-based school in a buildingthat belongs to the citizensand is currently under the custodianshipof the Department of Education," the letter says.

The group argues the building was "readily adaptable" for use as a public high school; a purpose that would require less intrusive changes to the historic structure than a hotel.

"Basically, you could call it Bridge Street High School, just write it in chalk on the wall and that's it; everything's there," said Mr Myers, who has designed plans that show how the building's internal courtyard could be converted into a 500-seat theatre.

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A' Design Award and Competition is delighted to share that the Installation Design by Cheungvogl Architects has been awarded with the coveted Golden A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Competition.

Insights on Aesop Installation Cheungvogl Architects, the creative team behind the award winning work "Aesop Installation" said: Cheungvogl created an installation for Aesop at I.T Hysan One in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong that builds on the reputation for architecturally remarkable spaces. Cheungvogl have imbued the exhibition space with a delicate luminosity. Eight hundred resin boxes are arranged atop steel rods of varying lengths, creating the sense that each box is ascending at its own pace, as if being drawn upward by an invisible thread. The installation explicitly focuses on the integration, interaction and communication. Learn more about the award winning design: https://competition.adesignaward.com/design.php?ID=30086

Team Members for Aesop I.T Installation, Hong Kong Aesop I.T Installation, Hong Kong was imagined by Judy Cheung, Christoph Vogl , K Nakamura and Kai Fischer.

The Golden A' Design Award The Golden A' Design Award is a prestigious award given to top 3% percentile designs that has exhibited an exemplary level of excellence in design. The designs are judged by a grand jury panel of designers, press members and academics who score entries based on their functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, fun details, technology, and any other specific points that could be considered. Laureates of the A' Design Award and Competition are granted a series of PR and marketing services such as an article feature at DZGN Design Blog, inclusion in World Design Rankings and World Design Index as well as physical exhibition of awarded projects in several countries.

About A' Design Award and Competition Endorsed by the DesignCompetition.com and many others, the A' Design Award and Competition aims to highlight the excellent qualifications of best designs, design concepts and design oriented products in all countries and in all creative disciplines. The ultimate aim of the A' Design Competition is to push designers, artists, architects and product manufacturers worldwide to create superior products or projects that benefit society. To learn more visit: http://www.whatisadesignaward.com

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Como, Italy (PRWEB) November 29, 2014

A' International Juried Design Award and Competition is pleased to announce that the Architectural Design Project - General Department of Information System by AGi Architects has been granted a Golden A' Design Award in the Architecture, Building and Structure Design Competition Category.

Regarding "General Department of Information System" Project

AGi Architects, the creative team behind the award winning architectural project "General Department of Information System" said, The design proposal for the General Department of Information System, GDIS, in Kuwait, developed by AGi architects in collaboration with Bonyan Design, is based on three principles: representativeness, security and functionality, turning the complex, with a total gross area of 135,482 sqm, into a strong civil icon representing Kuwaits Ministry of Interior Affairs. Building design aims for the clear transmission of a conceptual duality it derives from: technology, innovation and transparency versus strength, stability and security, which are inherent to the Ministry of Interior Affairs." Learn more about this design: https://competition.adesignaward.com/design.php?ID=29912

Design Team for General Department of Information System

General Department of Information System was co-designed by the AGi team which consists of: Joaqun Prez-Goicoechea, Nasser B. Abulhasan, Salvador Cejudo, Daniel Muoz, Carmen Sagredo, Daniel Bas, Adamira Herrero, Alfredo Carrato, Ana Lopez Cerrato, Lucia Azurmendi, Javier Alonso, Nicols Martn, Moyra Montoya, Maria lvarez labrador, Hanan Alkouh, Robert Varghese, Sarah Al Fraih and Bonyan Design.

The Golden A' Design Award The Golden A' Design Award in Architecture is a prestigious architectural design award given to top 3% percentile designs that have achieved an exemplary level of perfection in architectural design. Entries to the A' Architectural Design Awards are peer reviewed and anonymously voted by a grand jury panel of established academics, press members and design professionals following strict evaluation guidelines. Laureates of the A' Design Award & Competition are provided a series of PR and Publicity services, such as exhibition of their work in MOOD Museum of Design, to celebrate the status of winning the accolades. Award winners are further invited to join the World Design Consortium and are listed in designer rankings. Entry instructions, evaluation methodology and details on winner services and prizes are available at A' Design Awards website.

About A' Design Award and Competition A' Design Award and Competition is organized and awarded annually and internationally in all creative design, architecture and engineering categories to reach a wide, design-oriented audience. Award winning works are translated to all languages in order to create a global awareness for good design practices and principles. The ultimate aim of the A' Design Accolades is to create incentives for designers, artists, architects, brands and product manufacturers to come up with superior products and projects that benefit society. To learn more about the A' Design Awards please visit: http://www.whatisadesignaward.com

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"Public school in the making": the Department of Education building. Photo: Christopher Pearce

One of the two major public buildings on Sydney's Bridge Street should be converted into a much-needed city school, says a group of prominent Australian architects.

The Department of Education building and the adjacent Department of Lands building are being offloaded by the Baird government for "no longer meeting their requirements"after more than a century of civic use.

The architecturally prized landmarks, known as "the sandstones", are being sold on a 99-year lease through an international expressions of interest campaign closing on December 3. The marketing pitch describes it as a "rare" chance for a buyer to convert the two buildings into boutique luxury hotels.

But eight architects and academics are appealing to the Premier and Treasurer to keep the historically significantbuildings in public ownership by realising the Education building's potential as "a Sydney city public school in the making".

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Australian Institute of Architects' gold medallists Richard Leplastrier and Peter Myers, both of whom worked withJornUtzonon the Sydney OperaHouse, are among those who put their names to a letter sent on Saturday.

"Surely here is an unlikely to be repeated opportunity to make a very fine city-based school in a buildingthat belongs to the citizensand is currently under the custodianshipof the Department of Education," the letter says.

The group argues the building was "readily adaptable" for use as a public high school; a purpose that would require less intrusive changes to the historic structure than a hotel.

"Basically, you could call it Bridge Street High School, just write it in chalk on the wall and that's it; everything's there," said Mr Myers, who has designed plans that show how the building's internal courtyard could be converted into a 500-seat theatre.

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Careful design and material selection can reduce the long-term maintenance of apartments.

This week Tony Trobe talks to Andrew Wilson, president of the Australian Institute of Architects' ACT chapter.

TT: Canberra is having a strong public debate about building quality. What are the issues?

AW: Much of the debate is around the quality of design and build outcomes. For example, owners and tenants experience aspects of poor design, with excessive heat load in our hotter and drier climate and/or technical failures, the leaking of balconies into apartments below and unplanned, or high, maintenance costs.

Careful design and material selection can reduce the long-term maintenance. Effective maintenance ensures the longevity of buildings, sustaining the value of the property and reducing the life-cycle cost to owners.

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TT: NSW aims to improve the design quality of residential flat/apartment buildings by a policy called SEPP 65. What is this?

AW: It is a policy that promotes better apartment design. It has a companion code, the "Apartment Design Guide - Tools for improving the design of residential flat development". It was introduced in 2002 and is acknowledged as improving the design quality of apartment buildings.

The design of apartments has improved markedly. Much of this improvement can be attributed to SEPP 65 and the Residential Flat Design Code. This success indicates that design considerations are fundamental to the achievement of high-quality building projects.

TT: How does this differ from what we do?

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Medium-density living: Heller Street Apartments by Six Degrees.

Like Margaret and David without the bickering, Simon Knott and Stuart Harrison set out to do for architecture what Pomeranz and Stratton did for cinema.

"They were a real role model," says Knott, one half of 3RRR's weekly program, The Architects. "The relaxed way they do it, the odd argument, but clearly having a good time doing it. The guiding principle for us has always been that it would appeal to architects and the lay person."

For the past 10 years the two young architects (they were later joined by Christine Phillips and Rory Hyde) have broadcast the voluntary radio show. In its first year it won the Australian Institute of Architects' architecture in the media award.

Clever design: Andrew Maynard's Hill house.

Their infectious enthusiasm and insider knowledge led to guest appearances on ABC TV arts programs. Meanwhile, like Pomeranz and Stratton, the team got to broadcast from Venice when they represented Australia at the Venice Architecture biennale, hosting a "pirate" radio show. The pair are nothing if not passionate about architecture.

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"There's never been a show where I didn't feel invigorated as I walked out the door," says Knott. "One of the greatest things about the program is we got to meet every architect in Melbourne, and some international heroes," Knott says. He cites Toyo Ito and David Adjaye as particularly memorable.

Now, like the At the Movies stars, the architects are retiring their show, in their case to focus on their young families and their maturing day jobs.

Doing things right: Jackson Clement Burrows' Upper House in Swanston Street.

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In the architectural design process there are three stages - schematic, development and documentation.

Prior to the digital revolution, architects spent the preliminary part of the design process using pen or pencil to sketch on paper, translating design concepts from the designer's mind into 2D or 3D images that could be easily understood by the architect himself or by others. Physical or mock-up models also helped.

With computer technology, architects began to develop designs and create construction documents, but the schematic design process was not really computerised.

By the 1960s, however, computer-aided design (CAD) began to take shape as a new line of research that was quickly applied to the architectural practice. By the 1970s, CAD programs began to be commercially produced and sold.

In the 1980s, while personal computers began to develop, Autodesk Co was established, with made-for-PC programs such as AutoCAD Release 1 coming to the market.

Design, both architectural and engineering, began to be computer-aided. However, the early generations of CAD programs remained largely drafting tools on PCs, as they were developed by engineers and researchers who were not designers themselves. They did not have much understanding of the minds and working process of architects. Architects needed not only an aid for architectural drafting, but also for architectural design.

In 1999, a group of researchers, both architects and software developers, began to search for an alternative program that catered better to architects' needs than CAD. A company called @last Software was established and designers' hand-sketching and design processes were studied to develop a sketching/designing program. In August 2000, SketchUp was born.

With full understanding of architects' needs and work methodology, SketchUp is an easy-to-use program that works on quick 2D sketches that can be projected into 3D form very quickly. The award-winning program caught on and now is widely used.

In 2006 it was sold to Google, which turned it into what we now know as Google SketchUp. It is now very easy to design, create forms and exchange information about these forms over the Internet. With free use for the basic-level program, Google SketchUp is commonly used by not just architects and designers.

As it was based on AutoCAD, SketchUp's interface is fairly similar, with the same set of basic functions, command icons, and form-creating, manipulating and rendering commands. These commands are not complex, with just enough options to generate various forms, with many styles of effects. Those already familiar with AutoCAD can easily learn to use SketchUp.

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