THE SYDNEY MYER ASIA CENTRE


Another incredible building at Melbourne University, Designed by another famous Melbourne architect
Nonda Katsalidis of the firm, Nation Fender Katsalidis, also responsible for the Eurika Tower, The Sydney Myer is designed to compliment the Ian Potter Museum adjacent to it. An $18.5 million project, The building was constructed by Probuild Constructions, which in 2002, won the prestigious builders award, the Master Builders Association of Australia award for 'Excellence in New Construction $10-50 million'. Just like the Botany Annexe, this building again shows the level of architectural quality and building practise to create an iconic and beautiful building.

An interesting feature of this building, is actually visible in the detail where the frame of the stair case, acts as part of the wall, along with the glass.
Using several universal beams, Nonda Katsalidis uses the flanges bottom and top to butt up against the curtain wall of the facade. It adds the break in the facade, but amazingly becomes part of the overhanging area seen in the picture below.

The detail in a close up shows how the flange of the universal beam creatively acts as the break in the curtain wall, then extending to become the overhang of the building.