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Derive Architecture & Design

Locality: Newcastle, New South Wales

Phone: +61 400 409 965

Address: Level 1, 90 Hunter Street 2300 Newcastle, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.derivedesign.com.au

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22.01.2022 We feel honoured to have received an Architecture award for The Signal Box at the NSW AIA Awards last night. Winner of the Greenway Award for Heritage In the jury’s words: An inspiring example of adaptive reuse. One of the few remaining operational signal boxes, it is also the only one of its type. The intact lever switch gear, which demonstrates the important technical innovations introduced at the time the Signal Box was constructed in 1936, along with the sightline conne...ction to the former Newcastle railway station, generated the design brief and dictated the form, character and detailing of the new pavilion. The new café pavilion is deliberately modest, light and finely detailed, in deference to the strong aesthetic of the masonry Signal Box. A new spiral stair, which takes its cues from the existing interior stair, provides visual public access to the mezzanine housing the lever switch gear and the rooftop. A steel awning delicately connects old and new and its axis guides visitors moving eastward to the pavilion dining room echoing an arriving train. The pavilion’s dimensions are based on the longitudinal geometry of the Signal Box interior and the facades are divided into three glazed door partitions to reflect the imperial proportion system commonplace in railway geometry. The hydraulic operation of the windows emulates the miniature hydraulic lever gear and the circular rooftop enclosure makes reference to a former turntable structure uncovered during ground works that remains concealed underfoot. The steel structure is finished in a matte red oxide in tribute to the old ‘red rattler’ carriages and nearby shipping containers. The success of this project is due to the architect’s thoughtful interpretation and response to both the tangible fabric and intangible meaning of the original. Thank you to jury Susan O’Neill, NSW Land and Environment Court, Louise Cox LFRAIA, Hector Abrahams FRAIA and to the AIA NSW Chapter This project has been a story of collaboration and we are grateful to our clients @signalboxnewcastle To HCCDC and The Office of Environment & Heritage and our Consultant Team particularly Northrop Engineers for their invaluable in

22.01.2022 Some fine skills on display with off form and post tensioned concrete works progressing well. Construction by GTS @ Lake Macquarie

22.01.2022 Moments at #lakehouse

20.01.2022 Newcastle Signal Box Restaurant, has been shortlisted for Heritage in the AIA NSW Architecture Awards. A big thanks to our client @signalboxnewcastle and our team of collaborators especially Northrop Engineers and @weldtechfab Image Credit: @alexmcintyre_photography

06.01.2022 Delighted to receive development consent for #sdhouse! The project is a significant transformation of an existing dwelling in a sequence of interconnected spaces that offers glimpses and sheltered connections to the river and surrounding acreage Looking for to diving into the details in the coming phase...