BVN Architecture

BVN is an architecture firm based in Australia. BVN has won more Sulman medals than any other practice.

BVN
Practice information
Partners James Grose, Bill Dowzer, Abbie Galvin, Ian Kirkland, Julian Ashton, Phillip Rossington, Matthew Blair, Ninotschka Titchovsky, Jane Williams, Phil Tait, Mark Grimmer, David Kelly, Brian Donovan, Neil Logan
Founded 1997
Location Australia

Bligh Voller Nield was established during 1997 to 1999 with the merger of Bligh Voller Architects, Lawrence Nield and Partners Australia, Grose Bradley and Pels Innes Neilson and Kosloff. In 2009, Bligh Voller Nield became BVN Architecture.[1] in 2013 BVN merged with Donovan Hill to form BVN Donovan Hill. In 2014 the practice became BVN.

BVN is one of the largest architectural practices in Australia with studios located in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and New York, with project offices in Canberra and Bangkok. BVN's portfolio includes airports, commercial, defence, education, health, science, hospitality, interiors, masterplanning, public buildings, residential, retail, sport, transport, urban design and workplace projects.[2]

The firm has been extremely successful since the early 2000s designing many landmark buildings in Australia and sport facilities for the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and 2012 London Olympic Games.[3]

Notable projects

Australian PlantBank

The Australian PlantBank, located at the Australian Botanic Garden in Mount Annan, is a science and research facility of the Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust. It houses the Trust’s seedbank and research laboratories that specialise in native plant conservation. The facility is positioned globally as a symbol of preservation of the natural cycle from the germination of seed to the propagation of forests.

The building showcases the research carried out in the gardens, particularly the conservation of NSW plant species and regeneration of eco-systems, such as the adjoining threatened Cumberland Plain Woodland. The seedbank includes long term cold room facilities for storage of seeds, a drying room, incubators and seed processing and testing laboratory facilities.

The Australian PlantBank

The interpretive function of PlantBank has indirectly influenced internal planning. The plan form allows views into the working sections of the building; from the entry through to the lobby, visitors can see researchers working within the laboratories. Beyond this they can view the incubators, cold storage facilities and the vault. The vault is the conceptual focus of the research, being the repository of seeds. The visitor heart of the building is the narrow lobby form at the junction of the research, workplace and information zones of the building.

The facility has a strong educational interest and includes conference facilities for use of staff, visiting academics and public.

Taronga Zoo

Creating a clear entrance and enjoyable arrival experience into Taronga Zoo with an emphasis on the natural beauty of the site.

Taronga Zoo is an iconic zoological garden in Sydney’s northern city suburb of Mosman. The Upper Entry Precinct project delivers a major entrance and car park for the zoo, which serve to restore the emphasis on the natural beauty of Taronga Zoo’s setting and resolve issues with traffic flow and people movement. The Upper Entry Precinct is the first stage of the journey through the zoo for most visitors. Previously, visitors had to navigate the vast parking area and ticket queues before being funnelled through a ‘key-hole’ entry gate. The Upper Entry Precinct diffuses these functions into a smoothly orchestrated sequence. The design reinforces the nature of the zoo as a walled garden and allows visitors to experience their entry to the zoo as a promenade through the landscape.

Taronga Zoo

It achieves this via the separation of vehicular and pedestrian traffic; creation of a new public space for ticketing and orientation, and the relocation of daily parking to the rear of the site, creating a landscape buffer to be used for overflow parking only on very busy days.

In addition to increased parking and new retail and ticketing areas, project elements include the refurbishment of the heritage Upper Entrance Building and Tram Shed, and the creation of new public spaces, pathways, bridges and canopies. These include the inner plaza, which is an ‘un-ticketed’ space that allows free access into the formerly exclusive zoo domain, and the outer plaza which is a civic lawn that can be shared by the local community.

Ravenswood School for Girls

A state-of-the-art library and new school hub that facilitates an individualised approach to learning.

Initiated through a master planning process, the Mabel Fidler Building is the new main entrance to Ravenswood School for Girls and functions as the school’s central hub. The primary facility of the building is a state-of-the-art learning centre, the 21st century library, designed to empower students and facilitate self-directed learning. The project provides spaces for formal and informal learning, staff and student lounges, a café, specialist performing arts spaces and school reception, and administration.

Ravenswood School for Girls

The building is in scale with existing school buildings, and represents a modern insertion into a campus of varied buildings. The design addresses several issues including site accessibility, connectivity between adjacent buildings and usability of external areas. The Henry Street entrance aids site security, while the entry courtyard, at the heart of the project, provides an external space for the school community. Dramatic cantilevers, created by raising the library onto the upper level, provide a number of covered spaces where informal learning can take place. At the centre of the school is an oval, which the building addresses. At this end of the building a large canopy roof floats over a new verandah to the major public space of the school, and allows the building to be read from the Pacific Highway.

The building integrates passive and active sustainable design solutions, which form part of the education program for students.

ASB New Zealand

The design of ASB North Wharf has been undertaken as a fundamental building block of the new Wynyard Quarter, in Auckland, New Zealand. The design team has set Sustainability, Contribution to the public realm and Architectural expression as the design principles that determine a rigorous, collaborative and innovative problem solving context.

ASB North Wharf occupies sites 22 and 23 in Wynyard Quarter and creates a contiguous volume between two sites. A prescribed public lane runs from Jellicoe Street to Madden Street. The lane is the central component of the public realm within the site. It creates the pedestrian connectivity, it creates a new urban space and it creates unique opportunity to dissolve the normally glazed and sealed private environment of workplace from the vital, energetic and diverse public realm. Bridges span the lane in the volume of the glass enclosed lane between the two sites, providing an urban experience whilst satisfying a functional commercial outcome.

ASB New Zealand

The imperative to naturally ventilate the building has determined the design direction, language and composition of the architecture. To enable ventilation for the contiguous volume of the building, a “stack effect” or “thermal chimney” effect has to be created to force clean fresh air through the façade by manually operable windows. The “dirty” air produced by human occupation is then drawn into a central atria into the funnel and expelled by the natural function of pressure differential caused by the prevailing wind across the roof. The design principles of sustainability and architectural expression coalesce to produce a unique design emanating from sustainable function resulting in an emblematic roof form. The roof is further articulated by the capture and reflection of daylight into the body of the site 23 floor plates. The design of the reflector has been computationally derived to maximise the effect of daylight harvesting. Of equal importance to the funnel and reflector on the roof is the sun control regime to the north facades of the building. The sun control devices are the primary architectural expressive elements (after the form of the building) and bring visual diversity, tactility and function to the large glazed and ventilated facades. Retail component: This development includes 11 retail units all on ground level including the new ASB innovation centre (technologically advanced branch). All units other than branch are food and beverage. BVN Donovan Hill also produced base build tenancy plans for the client as well as providing design guidance to major retail fit-outs for the client.

Translational Research Institute (In Association with Wilson Architects)

Translational Research Institute (In Association with Wilson Architects)
Aligning four key medical research facilities to quickly translate research findings from bench to bedside.

The Translational Research Institute (TRI), located in the Princess Alexandra Hospital campus in Brisbane’s south, brings together four of Australia’s key research facilities with the aim of improving patient outcomes for a range of diseases. The TRI is the first of its kind in the country, with the ability to discover, produce, clinically test and manufacture new biopharmaceuticals and treatments in the one facility. The building hosts over 650 researchers and clinicians to enable quick translation of research findings to the clinic – a community of research. TRI is conceived as a series of interconnected ‘places and spaces’ located around the significant gathering space of the facility: an urban scaled outdoor room. The seven storey building provides a range of spaces to encourage interaction between clinicians and researchers, including four levels of laboratory, administration and teaching facilities plus a range of indoor and outdoor gathering, collaborative and event spaces. The ‘outdoor room’ is the centerpiece of the project, and acts as a town square which addresses large and intimate outdoor spaces , meeting rooms, cafes and the main auditorium. This space incorporates existing trees and offers north facing comfort. A bespoke environmental benchmark has been developed to respond to the facility’s unique specifications.

Awards

Australia

BVN Brisbane Studio
The Kinghorn Cancer Centre
Monash University Student Housing
Bendigo Bank Headquarters

New Zealand

Regional Terminal at Christchurch Airport
ASB Constellation Drive, New Zealand

International

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