Fender Katsalidis Architects

Fender Katsalidis (FK) is an architecture firm which originated in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, and now has additional studios in Sydney and Brisbane.[1] Founded by Karl Fender and Nonda Katsalidis, the firm has been notable since the early 1990s, producing many landmark buildings in Melbourne and other Australian cities. The firm was first established as Nation Fender and, since 1996, as Nation Fender Katsalidis.[2]

Eureka Tower, Melbourne

FK buildings are distinctive, often very sculptural, they also feature a variety of materials and textures such as exposed steel, left to the weather, or rough hewn timber. Australian Institute of Architects Gold Medallist Peter Wilson has described this material palette as reminiscent of "ageing boat hulls or rough woodsheds and agricultural structures built by first settlers in the Australian landscape." [3] An early FK project involved the conversion of former grain silos in Richmond, a Melbourne suburb, into distinctive apartments featuring balconies resembling a ship's bow. FK also designed Eureka Tower completed in June 2006 in Southbank, which has become Melbourne's tallest building and one of the tallest residential buildings in the world.

Notable projects
  • Melbourne Terrace (1994)
  • The Malthouse. Silos converted into apartments. (1997)
  • Ian Potter Museum of Art (1998)
  • Republic Tower (1999)
  • Astorial Apartments, Carlton. (2000)
  • HM@S Lonsdale dominates the Port Melbourne skyline (2003)
  • World Square, Sydney
  • Merdeka 118, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Awards
  • RAIA Harry Seidler Award for Commercial Architecture (2007) for the Eureka Tower, Melbourne
  • AIA Award for Commercial Architecture (2008), for the NewActon East, Canberra[4]
  • 2012 Australian Institute of Architects Sir Zelman Cowen Award for Public Architecture

References
  1. http://fkaustralia.com/contact
  2. Goad, Philip: New Directions in Australian Architecture, Pesaro Publishing, Balmain, ISBN 0-9577560-7-0
  3. Wilson, Peter: Fender Katsalidis: Working Architecture, Uro Publications, Melbourne, ISBN 9780994269775
  4. AIA Award for NewActon East
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