A call out for a recently Registered or experienced Graduate Architect to join our team at SITE. About Us SITE Architecture Studio is an established architecture and design practice based on Whadjuk Noongar Country (Perth), WA. Our focus is on providing unique design responses for public and private clients through a collaborative process of research and inquiry. We have a project experience across most sectors yet have a strong focus on creating inspiring and enriching community projects for Local Government and education clients. We strive to making places by creating architecture that enhances the lives of individuals, encouraging the growth…
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Rockingham Youth Centre wins an Award of Merit at the Designers Australia Awards 2022
We are delighted to announce that we have won an Award of Merit for the Design Institute of Australia’s prestigious Designers Australia Awards 2022 for Rockingham Youth Centre. This National Award brings together Australia’s broad design community, it celebrates ethical, innovative, and impactful design. The winners were announced at Curtin’s recently completed School of Design. Read more about the awards programme here.
Designing for Youth
Parentship, education and youth engagement present many unique challenges for families bringing up young children in today’s complex, digitally connected world. Outside of school and the home, buildings, spaces and programs provided by Local Authorities have become important within communities in supporting the growth and development of our youth. By providing suitable spaces within the community where young minds can play, learn, socialise, expand and relax, we are able to engage and stimulate the diverse intellectual, emotional, spiritual and physical needs of the individual. Formulaic consultation and engagement approach to community and youth places can fall short in delivering design…
SITE’s Success at Australian Institute of Architects WA Chapter Awards 2022
We are excited to share our success at the Australian Institute of Architects [WA] Chapter Awards 2022, with our Rockingham Youth Centre receiving The EmAGN Project Award. We would like to thank the City of Rockingham, Consultants, Suppliers, LKS Constructions, and the amazing and talented team at SITE. The Rockingham Youth Centre saw a major renovation and transformation of a tired commercial building into a dedicated facility to accommodate the delivery of various community services that assist and support the social, emotional, psychological and physical development of at-risk young people ranging in age from 12 – 24 years. Working…
Official Opening of the Cockburn Wetlands Precinct
SITE’s Project Architect Naomi McCabe attended the official opening of the Cockburn Wetlands Precinct. We are excited to share photos of the opening. The redevelopment includes facilities for WA Wildlife (formally Native Arc), Wetlands Education Centre, new Nursery, new scouts shed for the Bibra Lake Scout Group, extensive landscaping, and Wetlands.
NAIDOC Week 2021 Heal Country
National #NAIDOC Week 2021 Heal Country, is a call to reflect and reconnect with our place to acknowledge and respect our traditional ancestry in every aspect – Spiritually, Physically, emotionally socially, and culturally. It’s more than a place. Through all our projects we strive to continually improve our relationship with country and place through a site-sensitive architecture which derives a narrative sensitive to and inspired by our indigenous culture. Looking back at the Karla Katitjin Bushfire Centre of Excellence the engagement with local indigenous groups was key for the project from the outset. It allowed us to embrace First Nation’s…