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Level 5 rooftop and north-facing function area
connect to parkland, city and Corio Bay.
How important is it that the architecture should make
a statement, rather than be subordinated, or a sheet
of wallpaper?
I think it’s really important. Our buildings don't have an
ARM signature style. They are all responses to the brief
and responses to their environment. They do have an
ARM overtone, but you don’t instantly recognize any two
buildings as the same. The most important thing for me,
as a representative of ARM, is that the story generates
the building form.
And the story here is?
The combination of the grotto and the reinterpreted
traditional dome. Evidence of our commitment to realising
the design concept, maintaining it, being true to it,
is something that is important to us. It’s not something
that is post rationalized. It’s just there.
Regardless of the amount of input,
time or any other effort, every person
involved in the building of the library
has their name inscribed into the
building on the glass.
WAYNE SANDERSON, ARCHITECT