WA Boola Bardip Museum brings Perth city center to life

The project created nearly 6,000 square meters of galleries and a new public space at its center, and opened up new avenues for people to navigate through the block, enhancing the fine nature of the city.

“There are alleys and corridors that people who know the cities well use to connect,” Mr. Taylor said.

“This museum has a few connections introduced by lifting volumes into the sky and providing paths through buildings, which is an urban design that works well.”

The museum, whose name means “many stories” in the local Nyoongar language, also allowed for public debate on the indigenous and introduced cultures of WA.

“This whole concept of being a new facility has allowed a lot of things to happen,” Mr. Taylor said.

“This museum does not appear to have come from Europe. It looks Australian.

The successful adaptation of existing buildings has led to award-winning architecture in a number of categories beyond the high-priced Perth Museum in the weekend announcement.

The first prize for commercial architecture was awarded to the Warders Hotel & Emily Taylor, a hotel-restaurant complex in Fremantle.

The 11-bedroom boutique hotel in Fremantle created from old limestone warden’s cottages – housing for workers at the nearby former Fremantle Prison – and the adjacent Emily Taylor Bar and Kitchen were designed by Matthew Crawford Architects for W1 Hospitality, a tourism asset investment syndicate founded by hotelier Patrick Prendiville.

The dilapidated cottages, adjacent to Fremantle Market, were “festering” and in need of an overhaul, Mr Taylor said.

“They have been beautifully adapted and renovated for a new hotel,” he said. “It had to be a commercial success and the way they did it is to tie up a bar and a restaurant.”

The 450-seat Asian restaurant Emily Taylor takes its name from a ship – named after the captain’s wife – that sailed to Fremantle from England in the early 1800s, bringing migrants, spices and tea from Asia, and which eventually sank off the neighboring coasts. WA Coast.

Heritage and commercial architecture further overlapped with the Farmers’ Home Hotel, in the town of Northam in the Avon Valley, northeast of Perth, winning the top prize for heritage architecture.

Space agency architects redesigned the old Shamrock Hotel building in the town of WA Wheatbelt after acquiring Nigel Oakey, hotelier and general manager of coffee company Dome Group.

The hotel, built in 1866, has been renovated to emphasize features of the Victorian era and transform the 16 rooms, lobby, veranda, and small wine bar into an upscale travel destination. This is the second property of this type that Mr. Oakey is restoring, after the Premier Mill Hotel, a former flour mill located three hours south of Katanning.

“It is a very ambitious idea to develop regional buildings, often heritage buildings, into facilities that bring together restaurants, accommodation and cafes,” Taylor said.

“There are so many people who take intra-state and interstate travel that they are doing really well. “

The refurbished Northam Hotel also won a lower tier award in the Commercial Architecture category topped by the Fremantle Hotel and Restaurant.

The first WA award for new residential architecture went to Marmion Street House, a family home in Cottesloe designed by Philip Stejskal Architecture.

“The way the house was designed was to allow this to flow over while maintaining beautiful spaces to the north and east that approach the street and the streetscape which was done really well,” said Mr. Taylor said.