Ashton Raggatt McDougall or ARM is a firm of architects based in Melbourne, internationally renowned for their design work. The principals are Stephen Ashton, Howard Raggatt and Ian McDougall. Their work is at the forefront of contemporary architectural design in Australia. Their most notable project is the National Museum of Australia in Canberra. Other well-known buildings include RMIT Storey Hall and the extension to the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne. They were also responsible for the remodelling of the Melbourne Central Shopping Centre in 2005, with a design that attempts to open up the previously internal shopping mall to its city centre context and links the railway station directly to the mall. Howard Raggatt is an Australian architect, member of the firm Ashton Raggatt McDougall, and best known for the design of the National Museum of Australia, opened in 2001. ... Central garden of the National Museum of Australia The National Museum of Australia first opened its doors to the public in March 2001 in the nations federal capital city of Canberra. ... For other uses, see Canberra (disambiguation). ... The Shrine of Remembrance, located in St Kilda Road, Melbourne, is one of the largest war memorials in Australia. ... Melbourne Central shot tower, underneath the iconic glass cone The Batman building Melbourne Central is a large shopping, office, and public transport hub in the city of Melbourne, Australia. ...
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Walter Burley Griffin Award, Architecture Australia
The architects, Melbourne-based AshtonRaggattMcDougall, have deliberately chosen to house those sections devoted to the Aborigines in a replica of Daniel Libeskind's celebrated museum of Jewish history in Berlin.
AshtonRaggatt and McDougall don't content themselves with using buildings as words - they have also covered their building with words, to provide another, all but incomprehensible layer of meaning.
Raggatt, however, is happy to translate as he leads you around.
Around the Sanctuary walls is a frieze of 12 carved panels (by sculptor Pietro Porcelli) depicting the armed services at work and in action during World War I. The Sanctuary is surrounded by a narrow walkway called the Ambulatory.
Nearby is a Turkish Pine grown from a seed of the original Lone Pine at Gallipoli.
By the 1990s the increasing number of visitors to the Shrine led to the construction of a new Visitor Centre and museum inside the Shrine, designed by Melbourne architects AshtonRaggattMcDougall, which was opened in August 2003.
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