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Melbourne, Victoria (PRWEB) September 20, 2014

Great News! Guymer Bailey Architects together with Peter Hunt Architect has been selected to design the new Ravenhall Prison Project as a part of the GEO Consortium.

The Architectural Director for the project Kavan Applegate said We are thrilled! Guymer Bailey has been at the forefront of architecture and landscape design in secure environments throughout our companys history. We know this project will be the benchmark for prisons in Australia and internationally

The project will be delivered through a Public Private Partnership (PPP) awarded to the GEO Consortium by Victorian Department of Justice. The project will create the largest prison in Victoria and the largest single stage of a prison project ever in Australia. As the design team leaders, Guymer Bailey Architects and Peter Hunt Architect have developed a unique design for the site in Ravenhall to embody the innovative programme of the GEO Consortium. Design inspiration has been drawn from native flora and fauna as well as indigenous stories, motifs and emblems to inform a spiritual and philosophic core to the design.

Ravenhall Prison will be at the cutting edge of correctional thinking and design, providing Guymer Bailey Architects and Peter Hunt Architect with the opportunity to apply their substantive experience in correctional architecture, design and landscape design on a large canvass. The accommodation for 1,000 medium security prisoners will also include a 75-bed specialist forensic mental health unit and enhance pre- and post- release programs and services to reduce reoffending.

Guymer Bailey Architects has been creating unique, innovative solutions for projects for over 25 years. The practice was founded in Brisbane in 1989, expanded to Melbourne in 2006 and has collaborated with Peter Hunt Architect on large-scale projects continuously for the last 16 years.

About Guymer Bailey Architects Guymer Bailey is a passionate design-focused team that learns from the past, and plans in the present to create and deliver a sustainable future. Founded in 1989, the company has well established with offices in Melbourne and Brisbane, and a reputation for outstanding client service, design quality, and environmentally sustainable design. Lead by Phil Jackson, Kavan Applegate and Paul Mathieson as Directors, Guymer Bailey has two service design arms, Guymer Bailey Architects + Guymer Bailey Landscape, providing diversity and efficiency in delivering an integrated architecture and landscape environment. Whether working together or independently, each arm is client service based and future focused, committed to a sustainable environment. We are a medium sized company with experienced, professional staff they are our greatest asset. Our company size allows us the flexibility to undertake small and large-scale projects equally, always providing a personal and attentive service throughout the client consultation process. Our multi-disciplinary and team based approach working with specialist consultants and industry partners enables us to expand the intellectual input applied to design challenges which leads to innovative and economic solutions to suit our clients specific requirements. We have been at the forefront of 3D documentation and presentation for nearly 20 years, with the ability to produce walkthroughs, renderings, and 3D coordination with consultant documentation.

About Peter Hunt Architects Peter Hunt Architect, established in 1970, is a national architectural practice with offices in Perth and Sydney and associated offices in Brisbane and Melbourne. The Practice comprises of Chairman, Peter Hunt and Partners, Ron Edenburg and Con Lampropoulos, and Directors Graham Hunt and Paul VanNiekerk.

Since its inception, the Practice has established a highly respected and enviable track record in many facets of the built environment and has designed award-winning buildings and facilities for State and Local Governments, police, correctional, commercial, institutional, aged care and health, sport and recreational, convention and exhibition, residential, educational, and religious organisations.

Peter Hunt Architects success is based on a client-orientated philosophy coupled with a proven record of completing challenging projects within tight time and costs constraints. Every project the firm undertakes is treated as a unique design exercise specific to each client's needs and aspirations, technically implemented to ensure a functional and satisfying architectural solution.

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If you exclude architects, its not architecture, says Gven zel. Its a sunny Tuesday morning, and were sitting in the UCLA IDEAS Lab, a large university-owned warehouse on the west side of Los Angeles.zel is the labs Technology Director. The concept, he explains regarding his latest project, Project Source Code, came from being in Venice and seeing the 14th International Venice Architecture Biennales Rem Koolhaas-curated exhibition, Fundamentals. The conceit of the show, Koolhaas states, is focusingon architecture, not architects. Koolhaas features the basic elements of architecturethe window, the balcony, the toilet, the fireplace, the escalator, the elevator, et cetera. But no architects.

Which, to zel, means no architects except Koolhaas, who organized the show. Put his name on it. Designed it. The pretension of excluding architects gives the show a flat, impersonal feel, as if these tools of humanity werent created by humanity. zel also found other faults in the show. For instance, why were escalators a fundamental element of architecture? And why were they separate from stairs?

But most importantly, zel found fault with the omission of digital architecture. Nearly all architects today create models and simulations digitally. Is this not also a fundamental element of architecture? Today, 3-D models are nearly as common as the real thing. Go to a car manufacturers site to watch the promotional video detailing the design of the vehicle, or check out the plans for any new building being erected in the downtown of your city. 3-D architecture is not only publicity; its behind nearly every building or designed object in the 21stcentury. And not only that, but architects can play within the programs, creating that which might seem like impossibilities now, or open a dialogue as to what is possible in the future.

Left to right: Ivan Sutherland, The VW Beetle Shell, 1967. Martin Newell, The Utah Teapot, 1975

zel decided to stage an intervention within the exhibition. But how? zel grins. He has me download an app called Augment. The basic idea of Augment, one of many current augmented reality apps, is that you can scan objects with the app, which indexes them for later use. Then other users that have downloaded Augment can walk into a room, open the app, and point their phone at the indexed objects, enabling them to view a digital object in front of it. Using this app, zel, who achieved a certain amount of fame with his Cerebral Hut project from 2012, decided to re-curate the show with historic and influential pieces of digital architecture.

To do this, zel had to get creative. He brought a backpack full of equipment into the Biennale and scanned the entire Koolhaas exhibition with the app. zel wandered the exhibit with an iPad, a computer, and a cellphone, to the mild bewilderment of guards. zel is the kind of quiet, fumbling 30-something that uses a computer as an extension of his being, so most of the guards didnt even notice, but the ones that did were even more perplexed. Im just measuring, he would tell them. But since he didnt touch anything, and didnt seem to be doing anything wrong, they left him alone.

Oosterhuis_Lnrd, Saltwater Pavilion, 1997

After scanning the space, zel decided upon the six seminal pieces of digital architecture to alter the showeverything Koolhaas left out. For instance, Ivan Sutherlands The VW Beetle Shell from 1968, and Martin Newells The Utah Teapot from 1975, two early instances of how material objects were translated into the digital realm, are on display in front of the introductory text to the Koolhaas exhibition. Or on the left wall of the Balcony Gallery is Greg Lynns 1997 Embryological House, a digital case study of an animated home designallowing for an infinite number of possible designsthat caused waves in the architecture community when it was designed.

Roberge, Rudy, Hoffman, Koebel, Spreebogen Master Plan, 1993

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An architects firm has drawn up far-fetched plans for a shared stadium for Liverpool and Everton - created by flattening St Johns Shopping Centre.

NWD Architects is behind the bold blueprints, which would see a new city centre ground within touching distance of Liverpool Lime Street station.

It says the left field proposals would help regenerate the precinct, which is also home to St Johns Market, and attract hotel and leisure developments.

Graham Lewis, senior architect at NWD Architects, said: We feel that the site is ideal for such a use.

Football has always been at the heart of this city and the inclusion of a state of the art stadium in the city centre will ensure that it remains so.

The site is ideal because of its links with public transport, the railway stations at Lime Street Station and Liverpool Central.

Liverpool city centre

The area is arguably in need of regeneration and such a project would, we feel, prove to be a catalyst for hotel and leisure developments in the immediate vicinity.

Such a bold development would complement the excellent retail development around Liverpool One.

The firm, based in Tarporley, Cheshire, admits its vision does not have the backing of either club, and says it merely hopes to start a debate.

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Iviswold architects win award

The New Jersey Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA-NJ) has honored Trenton-based Historic Building Architects with a merit award in the historic preservation category for the firms work on Iviswold Castle, which the 19th century mansion reopened as the new Campus Center of Felician College in Rutherford. The mansion was given countless decorative features from lofty towers and clay-tile roofs to ornate plaster reliefs and elaborate woodwork. When Felician College acquired the castle, it commissioned HBA to prepare a historic structure report and begin restoration by successfully nominating the mansion for the National Registry of Historic Places. The college then asked HBA to undertake a selective interior removal project to expose the original historic fabric concealed by alterations. Later, it selected HBA to plan and manage restoration. HBA completed the 14-year, approximately $9-million restoration of the 18,000-square-foot, three-story mansion in 2013. Felician and HBA were chosen for the top preservation award from the Victorian Society of America.

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MANDAUE CITY A group of Filipino architects has painted walls here with beautiful murals depicting human concern to the environment and promoting "green" technology.

The group belongs to the Datu Lapu-Lapu Chapter of the United Architects of the Philippines (UAP) and in partnership with local village officials, they put up the mural painting on the wall along Lopez Jaena Street near the Subangdaku flyover, as part of their effort to continue the work of art and a means of creating public concern on the environment.

Some members even brought along their families who also helped in painting the murals. "This is part of the our social responsibility in promoting concern for the environment and green technology," said Architect Richard Abella, UAP President.

"I enjoy painting," said the 9-year old Allysha Lim, who is the daughter of Architect Philip Khan Lim.

Architect Miko Espina also brought his two-year old daughter Sace and wife Christine.

But for the 16-year old Christopher Fulache, mural painting has become his hobby after having been influenced by his uncle, Architect Joseph Codilla. "It's good to paint murals because we can express ourselves and advocate a lot of good things," he said.

Artist A.G. Sano also painted a mural of dolphin on the flyover as part of his advocacy in protecting this extinct marine species.

Subangdaku village chieftain Ernie Manatad said many organizations were inspired by the advocacy of Sano. Now, he said, the village is known as "mural capital" of Mandaue, and probably Cebu.

Manatad said they would inaugurate the project of making Subangdaku as the first flyover art of the country when Sano comes back next month.

"I am happy with this development because this has stopped vandalism which shows that the vandals respect their effort and hard work," he said.

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Cat folks know their precious furball deserves the very best, but feral kitties are often left to fend for themselves. So FixNation, a non-profit dedicated to spaying and neutering street felines, commissioned a group of LA-based architects to design custom outdoor accommodations for an event raising awarenessand cashfor their cause.

The results are predictably awww-worthy; of course, it doesn't hurt that the shots were staged with cute cats exploring the digs. But they're also noteworthy in the scope of the constructions themselvesnone of them look even close to similaras well as how the variety of materialswood, faux-grass, bits of carpeting, shingled tubes and metal hoops and concrete boxesall came together in these wildly different forms.

Architects seem to enjoy taking on these kinds of mini side projects, like the adorable Architecture for Dogs a few years back (seriously, you're going to want to click that link) and A Doll's House, which both saw big names going way small. I'd like to see them take on birdcages next.

These cat homes made their big debut at an event last week; rather than being auctioned off to the highest bidder, however, they'll be donated back to FixNation facilities which offer free trap-neuter-return services for wayward pussies (which could probably use a little love).

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