Wood Marsh
Wood Marsh Pty Ltd Architecture is a Melbourne based Australian architectural practice founded by Roger Wood and Randal Marsh in 1983.[1]
Overview
The company was founded by Roger Wood and Randal Marsh, both Melbourne-born in the 1950s, and who completed a Bachelor of Architecture at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.[2] After working for practices such as Williams Boag and Daryl Jackson, the two established their own private practice "Biltmoderne", along with Dale Jones-Evans in 1983. Jones-Evans left the firm in 1987, from which emerged Wood Marsh Architects.
Earlier projects that lead to Wood Marsh's prominence were their designs for nightclub interiors in the mid '80s - including Metro, Inflation and Chasers.[1]
Notable projects
Public
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ACCA (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art) was completed in 2002 and is located in Southbank, Melbourne, Australia. It is a gallery presenting a diverse range of creative visual art.[3]
Multiresidential
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YVE apartment was completed in 2006 and awarded the Victorian Architectural Medal.[1]
Residential
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Gottlieb House completed 1990, won the 1994 Victorian Residential Architecture Award.
Awards
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Wood Marsh's work to 2018 has received over 40 awards, some special awards, but mostly from the Victorian and the National Australian Institute of Architects . These include the top local award, the Victorian Architectural Medal, in 1998 and 2006.[4]
- 1985 - RAIA Victoria, Merit Award for Outstanding Architecture, Commercial New Category, Inflation Nightclub
- 1987 - RAIA Victoria, Award of Merit for Outstanding Architecture, Residential New Category, Choong House
- 1989 - RAIA Victoria, Award of Merit for Outstanding Architecture, Residential Alterations and Extensions Category, Frantzeskos House
- 1991 - RAIA Victoria, Award of Merit for Outstanding Architecture, Residential New Category, Kyritsis House
- 1994 - RAIA Victoria, Award of Merit for Outstanding Architecture, Residential New Category, Gottlieb House
- 1996 - RAIA Victoria, Harold Desbrowe-Annear, Residential Architecture Award, Cromwell Road Apartments
- 1997 - RAIA Victoria, Award of Merit for Outstanding Architecture, Institutional New Category, Deakin University, Burwood Campus
- 1998 - RAIA National Awards, Walter Burley Griffin Award for Urban Design, Eastern Freeway Extension Sound Barriers
- 1998 - RAIA National Awards, Sir Zelman Cowen Award for Public Buildings, Commendation - Building 220 – RMIT Bundoora Campus
- 1998 - Australian Institute of Landscape Architects, Australian Native Landscapes Project Award, Eastern Freeway Extension Sound Barriers, For VicRoads Merit Award
- 1998 - RAIA Victoria, Victorian Architecture Medal, Eastern Freeway Extension Sound Barriers
- 1998 - RAIA Victoria, William Wardell Award Institutional Architecture, Building 220, RMIT, Bundoora Campus
- 1998 - RAIA Victoria, Joseph Reed Award for Urban Design, Eastern Freeway Extension Sound Barriers
- 1999 - Museum of Contemporary Art (NSW), Seppelt Contemporary Art Awards 99, Visual Art Environmental Design Object Design, Category : Environmental Design
- 1999 - RAIA Victoria, Award of Commendation for Outstanding Architecture, Interior Architecture, Taylor Residence
- 1999 - RAIA Victoria, Award of Merit for Outstanding Architecture, Residential - Alterations + Extensions, Curtis House
- 2000 - Australian Council of Building Design Professions, Award of Commendation, Urban Design Australian Award, Docklands Infrastructure
- 2000 - RAIA National Awards, Commendation, Urban Design, Docklands Infrastructure
- 2000 - RAIA Victoria, Award of Merit, Urban Design, Docklands Infrastructure
- 2000 - RAIA Victoria, Award of Merit for Outstanding Architecture, Residential - Alterations + Extensions, A & G Curtis House
- 2001 - RAIA National Awards, Lachlan MacQuarie Award - Heritage, Mansion Hotel - Werribee Park
- 2001 - RAIA National Awards, Award for Interior Architecture - Mansion Hotel - Werribee Park
- 2001 - RAIA Victoria, John George Knight Award Heritage Architecture, Mansion Hotel - Werribee Park
- 2001 - RAIA Victoria, Marion Mahony Award Interior Architecture, Mansion Hotel - Werribee Park
- 2002 - RAIA Victoria, Commercial - Alterations & Extensions Architecture Award, Prince of Wales - Health Spa
- 2003 - RAIA Victoria, Institutional Architectural Award, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
- 2003 - RAIA National Awards, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Short listed by National Jury
- 2004 - RAIA National Awards, Commendation – Residential Buildings, Barro House
- 2004 - RAIA Victoria, Residential Architectural Award, Barro House
- 2005 - RAIA Victoria, Residential Architecture Award, Yarra's Edge Tower 5
- 2006 - RAIA Victoria, Harold Desbrowe-Annear, Residential Architecture Award, Yve Apartments
- 2006 - RAIA Victoria, Victorian Architecture Medal, Yve Apartments
- 2007 - RAIA, National Residential Architecture Award - Multiple Housing, Yve Apartments
- 2007 - RAIA Victoria, Residential Architecture Award - Multiple Housing, ISIS Apartments
- 2009 - AIA National Awards, The Frederick Romberg Award for Residential Architecture - Multiple Housing, Balancea Apartments
- 2009 - AIA National Awards, Residential Architecture Award - Multiple Housing, Balancea Apartments
- 2010 - AIA Victoria, Joseph Reed Award – Urban Design, Eastlink Freeway
- 2010 - Premier's Design Awards, Victoria, Premier's Design Mark, Eastlink Freeway
- 2010 - AIA National Awards, Urban Design Commendation, Eastlink Freeway
- 2010 - AIA Victoria, Sir Osborn McCutcheon Award - Commercial Architecture, Port Phillip Estate
- 2010 - AIA National Awards, Commercial Architecture, Port Phillip Estate
- 2010 - AIA National Awards, Interior Architecture, Port Phillip Estate
- 2010 - AIA National Awards, The Colorbond Award for Steel Architecture, Australian Pavilion Shanghai Expo
- 2012 - AIA Victoria, Residential Architecture Award, New category, Flinders House
- 2012 - AIA Victoria, Interior Architecture Award, Flinders House
- 2012 - AIA Victoria, Commendation, Multiple Housing, Aerial
- 2014 - AIA Victoria, Residential Architecture Award, New category, Portsea House
- 2015 - AIA Victoria, Residential Architecture Award, Multiple Housing, Domain Road Apartments
- 2015 - AIA Victoria, Interior Architecture Award, Domain Road Apartments
- 2015 - AIA Victoria, Commendation, Commercial Architecture, RACV Torquay
- 2016 - Australian Institute of Landscape Architects, National Awards: Award of Excellence for Tourism, Penguins Plus Viewing Area, Phillip Island (with Tract Consultants)[5]
- 2018 - AIA Victoria, Residential Architecture Award, New category, Towers Road House[6]
References
- The Age: They're adamant about Yve, 15 July 2006
- Wood Marsh website
- Day, Norman (16 September 2002). "Daring, whimsical and rusty (buiilding Review)". The Age. ProQuest 363512038.
- "Awards". Wood Marsh. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
- "2016 National Landscape Architecture Awards: Award of Excellence for Tourism". ARCHITECTUREAU. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
- "2018 Victorian Architecture Awards – Winner List" (PDF). Australian Institute of Architects. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
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Further reading
- Ito, K. "Wood Marsh", Space Design, (Japan), February 1989
- van Schaik, L. Wood Marsh, The Interior, RMIT, 1992
- Lambert, C. "Wood Marsh", Australian Style, Issue 12, 1995
- Vink, J. "Architectuur in the fast lane" Wood Marsh Architecture', De Architect, March 1996 (Dutch Text)