BATES SMART

"The UTS Broadway Building is an urban opportunity to simultaneously repair a 'missing tooth' on one of the cities processional gateway’s as well as consolidate the presence of the university campus within the city. Our vision is to create an open and inviting building where the public space runs through and up the building in the form of a grand stair; expressing the spaces of movement and interaction within. A public window to the city frames views, contrasting with the texture and movement of the operable double skin."

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As one of Australia's leading design companies
Bates Smart is committed to the creation of innovative architecture, interior design and urban design. With offices in Sydney and Melbourne, Bates Smart operates as a unified practice and provides services to clients across Australia and overseas. Bates Smart is committed to design excellence, to thoughtful and environmentally responsive solutions and to outstanding client service.

BVN

"The southern facade’s architectural expression sits comfortably with the notion of a contemporary “architecture as wood fibre.” [...] The syphonic glass ‘fluted’ façade draws clean, cool air through to naturally ventilate spaces on the busy Broadway elevation. [...] The design proposition creates a column-free commons at the ground level and lecture theatre space which renders no physical dependence on the column-free space of the floors above. [...] Above the northern facade glazing, located to avoid shading from the overhead platforms, are linear photovoltaic panels providing, in the height of summer, complete shading for the sliding doors. [...] Our proposition creates layers of public domain – from the eastern sunfilled terrace addressing Jones Street, to the seven-storey atrium around which the community of researchers, academics and students interact."

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With over 75 years experience, Bligh Voller Nield is widely acknowledged for both creative, award-winning design and sound professional expertise. 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. Bligh Voller Nield has national and international capacity with offices in Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne. In 2009, Bligh Voller Nield became BVN Architecture.

COX

"Our urban design approach creatively responds to the surrounding opportunities and constraints to create a legible and memorable Broadway address for the University. [...] The Proposal also mediates the lower scale of the surrounding built form at the west of the site, to the taller buildings immediately to the east. [...] The overtly transparent nature of the Building, together with the placement of its active uses and movement systems at the building’s facades, will engage and animate the public domain at multiple levels and scales - from the experience and interface at the footpath, to viewing the building within its broader context. [...] The building must provide a dynamic and open environment of communal spaces which facilitate interaction between staff, students, industry and community."

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Cox Richardson is the Sydney office of COX Architects & Planners. Founded in 1964, COX has offices in Sydney, Perth, Brisbane, Melbourne, Canberra, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Malaysia and Singapore. COX has developed a strong international reputation for innovative and exciting design as a result of its involvement with award-winning projects throughout Asia Pacific and the Middle East, as well as in South Africa and Europe.

FRANCIS-JONES MOREHEN THORP

"The proposed new building is characterised by its primary Broadway address and through its articulation from a series of sinuous ribbons reflecting the movement and energy of Broadway. [...] The Wattle Street and Jones Street facades comprise a thin series of primarily solid rectilinear bars or blocks that are built up adjacent to Building 10 forming careful and precise relationships to complement its urban context, while delineating a thin atrium to draw in natural light from the north. The groundplane is layered and sculptured to form a generous and welcoming pedestrian concourse or ‘new campus street’. [...] The lower levels [...] combine to form a structured rectilinear podium over which floats the free-form curvilinear ribbon form of the main building."

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Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (fjmt) is one of Australia’s foremost and awarded architectural practices. Its origins are in Mitchell/Giurgola & Thorp Architects (MGT, established 1980) who won the international design competition for New Parliament House in the nation’s capital, Canberra. Restructured in 2003 as fjmt, the practice continues its commitment to design excellence, executing many complex commissions. Most notable of these are The Scientia (a landmark multi-purpose performance centre at the University of New South Wales) and the new Headquarters of the Historic Houses Trust - The Mint.

LACOSTE + STEVENSON AND SIX DEGREES + DARYL JACKSON ROBIN DYKE

"With a digitally programmable ambient facade facing Broadway, a breathing façade to the North allowing natural cross ventilation from a biofilter garden courtyard and an accessible green roofscape, this building is designed to support world leading climate control systems and facilitate the active testing and development of systems for the future. UTS’s commitment to research is showcased on the prominent Broadway façade. The entire façade is populated with studios for the University’s large PhD community giving these students the ‘best seats in the house’ with access to views and natural light [...] LED lighting can be programmed by the faculty to create a subtle but information-rich display to the passing traffic and pedestrians."

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Lacoste + Stevenson is a design based architectural practice established in 1997 by Thierry Lacoste and David Stevenson. As a result of an international partnership, the practice is able to take advantage of both strong local connections together with global influences to produce a distinctive architecture.

Established to undertake the Australian Film Television and Radio School in 1982, Daryl Jackson Robin Dyke is an independent office within the Jackson Architecture network. Led by two Principal Directors, Daryl Jackson and Robin Dyke, the office comprises a group of 45 professional architects, interior designers and landscape architects.