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Commonwealth Place

This is a project by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects and it is located at Canberra ACT, Australia. Project's program: Public gathering space, restaurant, cafe, offices, exhibition space. There are ten images for Commonwealth Place.

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Project details

Project name: Commonwealth Place
Location: Canberra ACT, Australia
Program: Public gathering space, restaurant, cafe, offices, exhibition space
Area: Project area: 5,000 m2
Year: Completion: 2002
Client: National Capital Authority
Project by: Durbach Block Jaggers Architects
Others: Landscape Architects: Sue Barnsley Design

Project images

Designer's statement

Commonwealth Place is a public gathering space, restaurant and cafe as well as offices and an exhibition space. Located in the centre of Griffins heritage axis, at the edge of Lake Burley Griffin, Commonwealth Place negotiates the built set pieces and landscape elements of this sacred space to provide a gathering space of collection and openness.

The habitable spaces were designed to lead directly to the waterfront plaza, enlivening the lake edge.

Always home to people in motion, the café and gallery encourage people to stop and see where the land axis meets the lake edge.