The Albany Entertainment Center is a significant project for the local community and the broader South West region. This building provides International standard entertainment, performance and convention facilities for the region and a catalyst for community interaction along with a re-energised waterfront.Albany holds a rich history where land and water come together to be one of the great natural harbors of the world. The township is seated within its own significant mountains looking down onto the waterfront location where the new theater sits. The Albany Entertainment Center re-engages the harbour and its connections to the township of Albany.
Photography by © Alison Paine
The Albany Entertainment Center forms a jewel placed in the heart of the harbour, a piece of waterside sculpture whose form is bred out of the crystalline molecular structures of the earth like a cut diamond which changes and reflects light as you move around it. Elegant and not imposing, it responds to the undulating composition of the harbour framed by the mountain saddle in which the township sits.The Albany Entertainment Center regenerates a sense of social theater and connection with the natural world thus giving a sense of belonging and promoting inclusiveness by engagement with the community. The pedestrian journey through the setting to the harbor is activated and clear. A sense of beckoning and welcome is then played out on the foreshore.
Photography by © Alison Paine
Project Info Architects: Cox Architecture, Roberts Gardiner Architects Location: Albany, Australia Design Director: Steve Woodland Project Director: Greg Howlett Design Associate: Fernando Faugno Project Associate: Matthew Batchelor Project Architect: Nigel Saull Local Architect: Michael Roberts Architect: Wayne Kelsall, Edward Tran Graduate Architect: Rebecca Carrick Senior Interior Designer: Gary Giles Interior Designer: Cox Howlett & Bailey Woodland Acoustic Consultant: Marshall Day Acoustics Building Surveyor: John Massey Group Civil Consultant: Aurecon Communications Consultant: AECOM Cost Consultant: Davis Langdon Australia Developer: Great Southern Development Commission Electrical Consultant: AECOM Environmental Consultant: AECOM Heritage Consultant: Palassis Architects Hydraulic Consultant: Wood & Grieve Landscape Consultant: Hames Sharley Lighting Consultant: AECOM Mechanical Consultant: AECOM Original Architect: N/A Programming Consultant: JCA Partnership Services Consultant: AECOM Structural Consultant: Aurecon Theatre Consultant: Marshall Day Acoustics Fire Engineering: Aurecon Roof Safety Access: Safetylink Builder: Doric Contractors Pty Ltd. Construction Manager: Steve Duncan, Doric Project Manager: Mark Rowlands, Doric Year: 2010 Type: Cultural Center Photographs: Alison Paine
Photography by © Alison Paine
Photography by © Alison Paine
Photography by © Alison Paine
Photography by © Alison Paine
Photography by © Alison Paine
Photography by © Alison Paine
Photography by © Alison Paine
Photography by © Alison Paine
Photography by © Alison Paine
Photography by © Alison Paine
East Elevation
Site Plan
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