Project Name：Canberra National Arboretum
Location：Canberra
Glass Products：Soft Coated Low-E DGU in 5 different configuation Ceramic Frit on Low Iron Glass
Total Area：1000 m2

Project：Royal Randwick Racecourse – Spectator Precinct

Region: Australasia

Sub-Region: NSW

Division: Construction

Sector: Tourism & Leisure

Status: Under Construction

Contract Type: Design and Construct

Consultants:
Architect: Fitzpatrick & Partners
Structural Engineers: Arup
Services Engineers: Arup

Description:
Spectator Precinct = 50,900m2
Greater Royal Randwick site = 80ha
1,000 seat ballroom

The high-profile $115 million redevelopment of the Royal Randwick Racecourse spectator precinct will see Brookfield Multiplex, on behalf of the Australian Turf Club, turn the popular Sydney landmark into a world-class racing facility.

Over 40,000 square metres of space will be demolished including the Randwick Pavilion and Teahouse as well as the existing Paddock Stand, and a new stand with increased capacity will be constructed in its place. The Queen Elizabeth II stand is also set to be refurbished and will create a vibrant new facility.

In order to boost Royal Randwick Racecourse’s capacity as an international racing venue, Brookfield Multiplex has specially designed an amphitheatre-style parade ring “Theatre of the Horse”. The complex will include a two storey owners and trainers facility with direct views to the ring.

A new 1,000 seat ballroom will also be constructed with several
purposes including corporate suites on race day and for large events during non-racing season.

The historic Swab building will be restored and adapted for use as a conference facility with a museum, cafe, equine gallery and registration office for members.

Brookfield Multiplex’s outstanding credentials within the sporting and tourism sectors makes it well placed to re-create an iconic Australian venue.

Completion is anticipated for mid-2013.

There are grander and more expensive cellar doors in the world, but for sheer originality and invention South Australia’s newly-opened d’Arenberg Cube is unrivalled.

For leading Australian winemaker Chester Osborn, pictured below, it’s the realisation of a 14-year dream, but for the McLaren Vale wine region 40km south of the South Australian capital of Adelaide, the Cube could bring tens if not hundreds of thousands more wine tourists to visit one of the world’s most unusual and dramatic cellar doors.

The five storey AUD$15 million glass-encased steel and concrete structure was inspired by Rubik’s Cube – an architectural puzzle four modules wide, four high – seeming to float above the entrance ground floor, and four deep. The architectural twist is that the two top floors are askew, rotated on their axis, just as if you’d twisted your Rubik’s Cube – which both architects and builders agree have made it the most difficult project on which they’ve ever worked.

Given that d’Arenberg produces 72 different wines under 60 labels there are plenty of aromas to choose from.
Chester Osborn, 55, who says he likes to paint and sculpt when he’s not fully occupied as chief winemaker and futurist for the company his great grandfather Joseph Osborn founded 105 years ago, has filled any vacant space with art pieces and installations he’s either commissioned or collected over the years.

There’s a lift to the upper floors but far more entertaining is the completely mirrored stairwell featuring caricatures of d’Arenberg’s range of wines by Australian cartoonists. The second floor is a multi-function space for tastings and blending classes, while the third floor houses the d’Arenberg Cube restaurant.

This is not the place for a casual snack. With South African husband and wife team Brendan Wessels and Lindsay Dürr, above, in charge of the kitchen the menu options include a “long” degustation lunch, the Sisypheanic Euphoria (allow up to three hours) and an “extra long” lunch, the Pickwickian Brobdingnagian (allow at least four hours). It will be quite an experience, from the dining chairs that explode with colour and tables crafted from old oak barrels, to a 3D food printer in the kitchen.

The top floor is an all glass tasting room – four glass bars made up of 115 televisions featuring opaque projections of a naked female underwater swimmer, floor to ceiling windows on all sides – even a glass ceiling, with 16 two-tonne glass panels topped with 16 massive umbrellas that automatically retract and fold in a gale.

Among the many hundreds of installations and artistic creations filling the Cube, only once did Chester’s vivid imagination beat the available technology. At the entrance, a sharp left turn was to lead to a small “wine fog room”, a vinous sensory overload with the visitor immersed in a thick fog of whatever happens to be the wine of the day: breathe it, feel it, wear it.

It will happen, but only when they’ve worked out how to prevent the wine fog from setting off the fire alarms.

The d’Arenberg Cube opened to the public on December 14. The cellar door is open daily 10am – 5pm.

Project Name：Star City Casino
Location：Sydney Australia
Glass Products：

12mm clear glass curved heat strengthed+2.28mm clear PVB+12mm clear glass curved tempered and heat soaked.Arrised and polished all edges.

Outside: 8mm clear low iron tempered and heat soaked (holes: 4*Φ30mm ) Interlayer: 1.52 clear PVB

Inside: 6mm clear low iron heat strengthened. (holes: 4*Φ34mm ) Edgework: Arris all edges.

Total Area：15000 m2

Project Details

Address:124-188 Ballarat Road Footscray,Melbourne, Australia

Client:

R & F Property Australia

Area: 7000SQM

High performance insulated glass units

Today marks the official commencement of construction across the Kinnears site in Footscray.

After years of laying dormant, developer R&F Property Australia will turn the sod on the multiphased project which is valued at $750 million. Christened Live City, the development will see various aspects of the 1908 former Kinnears Ropeworks building retained or amalgamated into numerous residential buildings slated for the site.

Post purchasing the Kinnears site from AXF Group during 2016 for a reported $60 million, Live City represents R&F Property Australia’s first Melbourne project.

The developer confirmed intentions for the $500 million mixed-use precinct which spans 1.6 hectares. Expected to accommodate in excess of 1,000 apartments and a new public realm to the Brisbane River under the approved masterplan, R&F Property Australia are chasing adjustments to the masterplan which includes a public plaza and retail/restaurant spaces.
Ultimately the urban regeneration project may include as many as 1,450 apartments plus retail, commercial office space and multiple publicly accessible areas.

Mixed-use

The first phase, being a 15 level apartment building, has commenced marketing, with the project methodology enabling the next stage to commence. Noting the site has approval for 1,450 dwellings the input PPM has provided on the project means the project is now well established for successful delivery as planned.

Project Name：Liverpool Hospital

Location：Australia
Glass Products：6mm clear HS+1.52mm clear PVB+6mm Sunguard Advantage HS, Low-e on #4

4mm clear HS+1.52mm clear PVB+4mm Planibel-G HS, Low-e on #4
3mm clear annealed+0.38mm clear PVB+4mm Planibel-G annealed, Low-e on #4

10mm clear glass tempered+1.52mm clear PVB+8mm Sunergy clear tempered,low-e#4.Arrised and polised edges.

5mm clear glass tempered+1.52mm clear PVB+5mm clear glass tempered, with TS30#4+12mm Argon+5mm clear glass tempered+1.52mm clear PVB+5mm planibel G tempered,low-e#5. Arrised and polished edges.

Total Area：10000 m2