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Wood Marsh Pty Ltd Architecture is a Melbourne based Australian architectural practice founded by Roger Wood and Randal Marsh in 1983. [1]

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Overview

The company was founded by Roger Wood and Randal Marsh, both Melbourne-born in the 1950s, and who completed a Bachelor of Architecture at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. [2] After working for practices such as Williams Boag and Daryl Jackson, the two established their own private practice “Biltmoderne”, along with Dale Jones-Evans in 1983. Jones-Evans left the firm in 1987, from which emerged Wood Marsh Architects.

Earlier projects that lead to Wood Marsh’s prominence were their designs for nightclub interiors in the mid '80s - including Metro, Inflation and Chasers. [1]

Notable projects

Public

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The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art

ACCA (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art) was completed in 2002 and is located in Southbank, Melbourne, Australia. It is a gallery presenting a diverse range of creative visual art. [3]

Multiresidential

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YVE Apartment

YVE apartment was completed in 2006 and awarded the Victorian Architectural Medal. [1]

Residential

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Gottlieb House

Gottlieb House completed 1990, won the 1994 Victorian Residential Architecture Award.[ citation needed ]

Awards

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Australia Pavilion of Expo 2010, Shanghai

Wood Marsh’s work to 2018 has received over 40 awards, some special awards, but mostly from the Victorian and the National Australian Institute of Architects . These include the top local award, the Victorian Architectural Medal, in 1998 and 2006. [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 The Age: They're adamant about Yve, 15 July 2006
  2. Wood Marsh website
  3. Day, Norman (16 September 2002). "Daring, whimsical and rusty (buiilding Review)". The Age. ProQuest   363512038.
  4. "Awards". Wood Marsh. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  5. "2016 National Landscape Architecture Awards: Award of Excellence for Tourism". ARCHITECTUREAU. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  6. "2018 Victorian Architecture Awards – Winner List" (PDF). Australian Institute of Architects. Retrieved 21 November 2018.

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