A new website has been launched to keep everyone up to date on the VCCC. Visit vcccproject.vic.gov.au to find out more.

Thanks to your votes, PEGS Junior Boys School has recieved the Melbourne Design Award for Commercial Architecture!

"The MDA is the only design awards recognising a broad range of design categories open to design professionals, students and those that commission design.

The awards are cross-disciplinary, celebrating and honouring the role of design and the skills of designers around the planet, while recognising all aspects of the design process."

McBride Charles Ryan now has its own page on Facebook.

Head over to the page and 'like' us to remain up-to-date with all the latest info, news and projects at MCR!

Check it out here

 BLACK MAGIC

"A new school building by McBride Charles Ryan draws favorable comparison from one of its young occupants to Harry Potter's Hogwarts. It is also a project of outstanding architectural merit delivered through the Building the Education Revolution scheme. Architectural sleight of hand? No. Just clever design."

McBride Charles Ryan has been shortlisted for a World Architecture Festival Award in the learning category for PEGS Junior.

The World Architecture Festival is the world's largest annual global architecture awards regularly attracting more than 700 entries from almost 60 different countries every year.

The festival opens November 2 in Barcelona, Spain.

For more information about the awards click here

Principal Architects: Rob McBride, Debbie-Lyn Ryan

Project team: Benedikt Josef, Amelia Borg, Natasha Maben

We are proud to announce that McBride Charles Ryan has received the Horbury Hunt Commercial Award at the 2011 Think Brick Awards.

"The Horbury Hunt Awards recognise excellence and innovation in built projects and the collaboration of the project team to deliver architectural outcomes: architect/designer, builder, masonry contractor and brick manufacturer. The Awards reward innovation and craftsmanship in brickwork and recognises the contribution of all parties in that process."

We would like to congratulate and thank all who worked on the project.

Principal Architects: Rob McBride, Debbie-Lyn Ryan

Project team: Benedikt Josef, Amelia Borg, Natasha Maben

For more information about the awards click here

McBride Charles Ryan has recently received The International Architecture Award for Fitzroy High School and Letterbox House.

"The International Architecture Awards are the highest and most prestigious disinguished building awards that honor new and cutting-edge design."

The award is organised by The Chicago Athenaeum and The European Center for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies in conjunction with Metropolitan Arts Press Ltd.



 

Fitzroy High School:

Principal Architects: Rob McBride, Debbie Lyn Ryan

Project team: Andrew Hayne, Drew Williamson, Michelle James, Angela Woda, David Fraser

Letterbox House:

Principal Architects: Rob McBride, Debbie-Lyn Ryan

Project team: Adam Pustola, Meredith Dufour, Michael McManus, Angela Woda, Matthew Borg, Fang Cheah,

Flynn Lewer

 

"WAN winners pave the way for new typologies in education facility design"

McBride Charles Ryan are happy to report that we were recently the recipients of the WAN Education Sector 2011 award for a built project.

We would like to thank the judges for their time and kind comments. We would also like to extend our sincere thanks to the project team and the staff at Fitzroy High School.

Please head over to the WAN Awards page for the judges comments and video.

An exercpt from the article is below:

"On the other side of the world, the unique face of Fitzroy High School was admired for its 'traditional approach' in an inventive exterior, a move noted by Chris Harding, Head of Education at BDP as 'a good thing in terms of moving the typology forward'... the colour coded interiors, flexible and interactive use of space, and 'brilliantly thoughtful' overall design pushed McBride Charles Ryan to the top of the table."

Principal Architects: Rob McBride, Debbie Lyn Ryan

Project team: Andrew Hayne, Drew Williamson, Michelle James, Angela Woda, David Fraser

McBride Charles Ryan are proud to show our newest project, the new school at Penleigh and Essendon Grammar, for the Boys Junior School.

This project has been a favourite in the office and we are delighted to see it come to completion.

We would like to sincerely thank the wonderful staff and team and PEGS who made this all possible.

We would also like to extend a special thanks to our project team; Debbie Ryan and Robert McBride,  Benedikt Josef (Project Architect), Amelia Borg and Natasha Maben.

McBride Charles Ryan are happy to announce that the Letterbox House was the proud recipient of the Residential Architecture award at the Melbourne Design Awards.

We would like to extend a warm thanks to all who voted for the project.

The PEGS Senior project has begun construction.  

Construction Photographs courtesy of NearMap. 

The Horbury Hunt Award recognises architectural innovation and outstanding brick craftsmanship in built projects.

Primarily an architectural competition, the award also acknowledges the combined role architects, designers, engineers, landscape architects and designers, builders, masonry contractors and brick manufacturers play in achieving excellence. This is a unique and important aspect of the judging criteria, and as such, any member of the project team may enter the award.

Initiated by the Horbury Hunt Club in honour of the renowned Australian architect, John Horbury Hunt, Think Brick Australia took on the guardianship of this competition in 2008.

Fitzroy High School was announced the winner of the Award on the 7th of October, 2010. The award was accepted by Debbie Ryan on behalf of the firm in Sydney.

McBride Charles Ryan would like to extend our thanks to all that were involved in the project, and made such a great building possible.

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.

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.  

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.  

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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