An impossible brick façade — how we solved it with prefabrication and light gauge steel
Slow, expensive and impractical — that’s how the McNab Place project in Footscray would have been with traditional construction methods. The apartment building’s podium façade is reminiscent of historic masonry buildings. Its highly articulated brick façade features deep, corbelled arches and stepped brickwork wrapped around the structure. For Roberts Co. builders, this presented a challenge. “When […]
Winning big at the Victorian Architecture Awards
Two of our projects won titles at the Victorian Architecture Awards this year. Balam Balam Place and the New Footscray Hospital racked up four awards and three commendations between them when the winners were announced. Conceived as a revived heart of the Brunswick community, Balam Balam Place — by Kennedy Nolan, Finding Infinity and Openwork […]
Bell Station: The World’s Most Beautiful Train Station
There should be no function without beauty. And Preston’s Bell Station — just declared one of the World’s Most Beautiful Passenger Stations — is the perfect example of how light gauge steel frames can achieve this. When the diggers rolled in to rip out the train tracks of Melbourne’s busy Mernda line, the architects were thinking of […]