“The Four Seasons Hotel Sydney has unveiled its ‘pièce de résistance’, four newly refurbished signature suites as the grand finale to a two-year, AUD$18 million refurbishment.

Intended to take on a 1930s-era New York-style apartment, leading interior and architecture practice, Bates Smart, wanted to evoke a feeling of warmth, elegance and refinement.

 

Taking prime position in the bay window and offering views over Sydney’s Circular Quay, the spacious master bathroom is unapologetically indulgent with warm, silvery travertine echoing the suite’s parquet floor.

With the Sydney Opera House as its backdrop, the master bedroom is an intimate cocoon featuring an elegant four-poster bed with linen canopy."

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Collins Square is an important new Docklands precinct consisting of five commercial buildings and the redevelopment of historic working buildings.

Bates Smart's masterplan for this precinct adds a new energy to the Docklands. 

The building’s form is defined by a series of stacked volumes that allude to the stacking of containers; a loose reference to the former utilitarian life of the precinct as a hub for the arrival, departure and storage of goods.  

This project is currently under construction and due for completion in March 2012. The Australian Tax Office has leased 35 00sqm of the 38 000sqm of available commercial space.

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In 2010 Bates Smart won a competition to design two residential towers. The towers are linked by a low podium, comprising commercial office and retail tenancies that creates a lively street frontage for residents and passers-by.

This design provides a sense of connection between the large scale of the surrounding sporting infrastructure and the human scale of street life.

Horizontal sun-shading bands circle each tower, varying in depth to provide greater protection to the north.

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The new accomodation will provide approximately 700 beds across two high profile sites as part of the University's strategy to increase accommodation by 3,500 beds by 2014.

This is a great opportunity for Bates Smart to deliver a new benchmark and set the standard for following student housing projects.

The project focuses on the needs of international students and visiting academics.

Briefing has commenced.

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Two separate buildings will accommodate 130 one, two and three bedroom apartments in addition to a new neighbourhood park and pedestrian street linking surrounding streets to the existing Wolli Creek train station.

The pedestrian street will be activated by a supermarket and retail tenancies with continuous covered outdoor dining.

Bates Smart won the Discovery Point masterplan design competition in 2009.

It proposes a mixed use neighbourhood of 14 buildings comprising 1500 apartments, 4600sqm retail and 5000sqm commercial space located within a permeable network of new streets and public open space.

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About 150 years ago steel construction clad in various materials started replacing load bearing masonry structure in commercial office buildings.

Another 50 years later the first steel framed glass curtain wall was built. Finally around 1950 the unitised aluminium framed curtain wall was introduced and Bates Smart (McCutcheon) helped spread this technology through several designs to all mayor Australian cities.

ICI Building, Melbourne, 1958, Arch.: Bates, Smart and McCutcheon

Besides its promise of generous views and of interiors flooded in natural daylight the curtain wall allowed faster and cheaper construction.

Double and triple glazing now achieve and exceed insulation levels of thick masonry construction and perform well acoustically.

CBW, Melbourne, 2009, Arch.: Bates Smart

Now the curtain wall needs to help produce carbon neutral buildings and further improve the transition between inside and outside in today’s workplaces.

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