Frank Bartlett Memorial Library & Moe Service Centre
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Client
Latrobe City Council
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Architect
fjmtstudio
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Location
Moe
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Status
Completed in 2016
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Consultants
TTW
Murchie Consulting
Integral Group (previously Umow Lai)
McKenzie Group
Slattery
Arup -
Awards
2017 Australian Institute of Architects – National Architecture Awards, Walter Burley Griffin Award for Urban Design
2017 Australian Institute of Architects – Victorian Chapter Awards, Joseph Reed Award for Urban Design, Public Architecture Commendation
This project was strategic for the Latrobe City Council, designed to be led and owned by locals. The building comprises a three-level concrete and steel structure with a ‘garden’ roof, library, offices, and a retail hub of approximately 4,500m2.
A curved and steeped platform of landscape and concrete follows the line of the railway, opening up to the town centre and creating a public square.
Suspended above the podium and cantilevering over the square are two timber-clad volumes oriented directly down the main street, forming a focus for this civic vista.
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