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SITE’s success at WA Architecture Awards 2019 – Hale Junior School

SITE Architecture Studio are very pleased to announce our recent success on Friday 28th of July at the 2019 Australian Institute of Architecture– WA Chapter Awards. Our Hale Junior School winning an Architecture Award in the Education Category over exceptional competition. We are all very proud to have been given such a wonderful opportunity to work with Hale School and to have been given the trust to design and shape a new Junior School around their vision of education for young boys. We would like to thank Hale School for their trust and ongoing support. Without great clients such as…

Project Update: Eaton Community College New Science Building

We are pleased to announce that our Eaton Community College New Science Building has recently been awarded to BGC Construction and some holes are gonna get done dug any day now!! This exciting project will provide the College with 4 dedicated science labs, and 2 flexible lab spaces catering for Science-based Engineering and STEAM, with both digital design and workshop maker spaces. Most excitingly, we have managed to shed stormwater straight from our sculpted roof into landscaped wetland drainage swales below (no gutters!!) which will create outdoor bio-diversity labs for the students to get dirty in. This, coupled with our…

Hale Junior School a category winner for Shaw Design Awards!

SITE is excited to find out today that Hale Junior School was a category winner in the recent Shaw Contract Design Awards, and is now in the running for the final category award. This also means we have a chance at the people’s choice award so would be great if you would be willing to share and vote for us. Each entry can be voted for once per day until the 12th July 2019. See below link for voting. https://designawards.shawcontract.com/en-gb/project/hale-junior-school

Successful Master Planning

The beginning of a project can be a very exciting period! Often projects come out of a reaction to a perceived problem where a solution is half determined before the problem is fully understood, ‘critiqued’ or even challenged. This can perpetuate as funding is sought, approvals from relevant personnel are obtained and a kind of consultation with stakeholders is completed. Before too long, there is a ‘brief’ for a building project which then is used to seek engagement of architectural services. As Architects, we often get called in late in this process and get pulled in to the excitement of…

Project Update: Dalwallinu Recreation Centre reaches PC

Dalwallinu Recreation Centre Extension and Refurbishment have reached practical completion. We would like to share some photographs from Project Architect’s Christian Wetjen’s latest visit to Dalwallinu with a before and after comparison. The project includes: New Entrance Foyer/breakout space Lesser Hall Bar Kitchen Meeting Room Leasable space Additional amenities and change rooms Umpire’s match room Refurbishment works for the existing centre facilities