Klein Bottle House Shortlisted for the LICC Awards
London International Creative Competition
The Klein Bottle House was shortlisted as one of the finalists of the London International Creative Competition.
"London International Creative Competition is a vehicle for facilitating contact between uniquely talented artists and an international audience"
Find out more information here.
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Brownless Biomedical Library opens at Melbourne University
26th of July, 2010
McBride Charles Ryan are happy to announce that the Brownless Biomedical Library had its opening ceremony on the 26th of July, 2010. We would like to thank all the parties that had made the project possible.
Special thanks goes out to the project team - Debbie Ryan, Robert McBride, Michelle James, Drew Williamson, Benedict Josef, Natasha Maben and Marie Chen.
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McBride Charles Ryan Shortlisted for World Architecture Festival
Fitzroy High School
The team at McBride Charles Ryan are delighted to announce that Fitzroy High School has been shortlisted for the "Learning" category for the World Architecture Festival in 2010. Results will be decided in Barcelona from the 3-5th of November.
For more details, please visit the WAF website.
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McBride Charles Ryan Shortlisted for World Architecture Festival
Letterbox House
It is our pleasure to announce that the Letterbox House has been shortlisted for the World Architecture Festival this year. It is an honour to have been selected from such a large list of contributors.
For more information, please visit the WAF website.
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McBride Charles Ryan wins an International Architecture Award 2010
Monaco House
The International Architectural Awards is a prestigious institution organized by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies. The program has become one of the largest and distinguished awards programs in the world.
The jury for the 2010 Awards was held in Mexico City, in which 98 projects from 38 nations were selected.
McBride Charles Ryan would like to thank all involved for this honour, and would like to thank everyone involved in the project.
Visit http://www.chi-athenaeum.org for further details.
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MCR WINS PUBLIC ARCHITECTURE ALTERATIONS & ADDITIONS AWARD AT VICTORIAN ARCHITECTURE AWARDS 2010
FITZROY HIGH SCHOOL
McBride Charles Ryan has won the Australian Institute of Architecture Victorian Chapter Annual Awards 2010 in the Public Alterations and Additions category for Fitzroy High School.
We would like to thank all the people who put in the hard work for the project, special mention goes to Robert McBride and Debbie Ryan as Project Directors, Andrew Hayne and Drew Williamson as Project Architects and Michelle James, Angela Woda and David Fraser as the practice team.
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MCR WINS PUBLIC ARCHITECTURE NEW AWARD AT VICTORIAN ARCHITECTURE AWARDS 2010
YARDMASTERS BUILDING
McBride Charles Ryan has won the Australian Institute of Architecture Victorian Chapter Annual Awards 2010 in the Public Architecture division for the Yardmasters Building.
We have been extremely gracious of the praise the building has received, and as such would like to thank the great people who put in all the hard work to make it all happen. We would especially like to thank Debbie Ryan and Robert McBride as the Project Directors, Drew WIlliamson as the Project Architect, and Andrew Hayne, Fang Cheah, Michelle James, Angela Woda, David Fraser, Scott Crowe and Johanna Brunner who were the practice team.
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MCR wins the Grand Designs Award for Best International House
Klein Bottle House
The Klein Bottle House has won the Grand Designs Awards for Best International House. Debbie flew to the UK to accept the award-presented by Kevin McCloud.
Visit the Grand Designs Website for an update on all the winners and shortlisted entrants for the awards:
www.granddesignsawards.com
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Fitzroy High School wins the Dulux Colour Awards Grand Prix
Celebration ensued in the office when it was announced that Fitzroy High School had taken out the category prize for Best Commercial Interior, as well as the Grand Prix for the 24th Annual Dulux Colour Awards.
This year's judging panel included Lyons' co-director Carey Lyon, interior designer Alison Page and contemporary Artist Vincent Fantauzzo who said that the building contained "fantastic vibrancy from notably secondary colours to enrich the learning environment."
It was surely an honour to have been chosen among such a huge and diverse group of applicants this year.
Special thanks for the project goes out to Project team; Debbie Ryan, Rob McBride, Andrew Hayne, Drew Williamson, Michelle James, Angela Woda, and David Fraser.
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MONACO HOUSE FEATURED IN THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
April 24-25, 2010
"McBride Charles Ryan's Monaco House seems to erupt out of its starched and narrow lane just metres from the Melbourne Club, bubbling convexly above street level and concavely at it, punching a crumpled cave of conviviality into the street wall."
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MCR Participates in ASAHI Black and Silver Exhibition
Karakuchi Project
"The intention of Silver + Black is to provide a space that showcases Asahi's core values of quality, premium, style and choice with like minded artists and collaborators."
McBride Charles Ryan was invited this year to participate in Asahi's Silver + Black exhibition, put together by Urchin Associates. MCR participated in the Karakuchi part of the project, where we were to interpret the characters featured on the Asahi Super Dry Bottle.
Our object was a three dimensional interpretation of the characters using a 3D digital modelling program. This program is used on many of our projects to manipulate form. We extruded the form and played with it until we thought it was a visually rich and tangible interpretation of the characters form. The characters shape is revealed from a number of angles of the object. Whilst one object (Kuchi) pays homage to the Asahi brand in colour and material, it distorts its nature through form. The other object (Kara) employs manga (Japanese cartoons) to add colour, imagery and text alluding to McBride Charles Ryan ongoing interest in colour, form, and meaning.
Click to jump to the Asahi Silver+Black website
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The Yardmasters Building featured in The Age
The Age, 31 Mar 2010. Pages 40 - 41
Article by Stephen Crafti
..."Seen from the platform, the four-level concrete building looks more like a jewellery box wedged between the tracks than a utilitarian structure for signalmen and yardmasters..."
Click here to view the article.
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Fitzroy High School featured in AR
April/May Issue 114 pg 106-113
Article by Stuart Harrison
"As one parent succinctly put it, this building needed to have "zing". All else were givens."
The new school by McBride Charles Ryan applies a deceptively simple solution to contain a complex and progressive educational program.
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