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RBA Director involved in landmark Kolkata (India) restoration
Roger Beeston, RBA Director and deputy chair of AusHeritage, recently attended a workshop at Jadavpur University for the restoration of the 230-year-old Writers’ Buildings, the…
VERSUS 2014
RBA are preparing to make a presentation at the upcoming International Conference on Vernacular Heritage, Sustainability and Earthen Architecture (VerSus 2014) in València, Spain. Our…
PLANNING SCHEME AMENDMENT C198 UPDATE
The Planning Panel Report for Planning Scheme Amendment C198 is now publicly available. Most of the Heritage Overlays proposed in the City North Heritage Review…
Rare French Tiles Discovered At Footscray Railway Station
What is believed to be a rare Australian example of the use (or surviving example) of Marseilles terracotta tiles manufactured by the French company of…
Culture Industry Contributes Australian GDP – Article
According to a recent article published in the Sydney Morning Herald, Australia’s creative and cultural industries contribute more than $86 billion annually to the national economy – more than the transport industry or welfare sector – the first research of its kind by the Australian Bureau of Statistics has revealed. Read the full article: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/culture-industry-contributes-86-billion-a-year-to-australian-gdp-20140212-32i92.html#ixzz2teSprA9T
Conservation project earns UNESCO Award
We are proud to announce that the Maryborough Railway Station conservation project has been recognised internationally, earning an award of merit at the prestigious UNESCO…
Flinders Street Station Design Competition
In 1899, Fawcett and Ashworth won the international architectural design competition for a new train station beside Princes Bridge on Flinders Street. This week, 114…
2013 Victorian Architecture Awards
The 2013 winners of the Victorian Architecture Awards have been announced and we are pleased to share that RBA received a Heritage Architecture Award for our work at Marybourough Railway Station! This year, fifteen entries were submitted in the Heritage Architecture category which is for a built conservation project or study developed in accordance with the Australia ICOMOS Burra Charter, or any adaptive reuse of a heritage structure. Here is what the jury had to say:…
2013 AWARDS – Maryborough Railway Station Conservation Works
The 2013 Dulux Colour Awards shortlist has been revealed, and RBA is among the fourteen finalists to have been selected in the category of ‘commercial…
City North Heritage Review
An RBA project nearing completion is a heritage study review of areas within the City of Melbourne, including North and West Melbourne and South Carlton….
University of Melbourne: J. Reed Facade and Japanese Room Update
Demolition of the 1960s Faculty of Architecture, Building & Planning building and the adjacent 1930s Commerce building (except the heritage listed façade) at the University…
ICOM-DEMHIST and ICOM-CC Joint Conference
RBA Director Roger Beeston and Architectural Historian Anthony Hemingway recently travelled to Los Angeles, USA, to deliver a paper at a conference titled ‘The Artifact,…
Lara Heritage Study
RBA was commissioned by the City of Greater Geelong to undertake a review of potential heritage sites identified in the Lara area within the Outer…
Footscray Railway Station
Footscray Railway Station has been a major nodal metropolitan station since it was opened for passenger traffic on the 24 September 1900. The new station at the junction was an amalgamation of two earlier stations at Footscray, one on the Melbourne to Sunbury portion of the Echuca Railway Line and the other on the Melbourne to Williamstown Railway Line. The central building (B1) has an unusual V-shape configuration and elaborate detailing at the entry. It…
Victoria Police Stables Complex
One hundred years ago, at a time when the automobile was about to replace the horse for police work, an extensive new stables facility, reputedly…
Faculty of Architecture, Building & Planning, University of Melbourne – Proposed Redevelopement
RBA have provided preliminary advice on various heritage issues raised by the proposed redevelopment of the Faculty of Architecture, Building & Planning (FABP) and adjacent…