This year we undertook an exciting collaboration with Hoare Lea, an award-winning global engineering consultancy. As education is a key sector for Umow Lai in Australia, Hoare Lea Partner Ian Durbin took the time to provide his insights into the higher education sector in the UK. Hoare Lea Partner, Ian Durbin Q. Tell us about your [...]
New Zealand Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern officially opened the new Ernest Rutherford building at the University of Canterbury (UC) last week. An event to be remembered, the ceremony was attended by hundreds of invited guests and featured an impressive display of fireworks outside the building’s entrance. Reflective of the University’s commitment to science and technology, [...]
A new building at Melbourne University shows how architecture can deliver joy and functionality. Cameras are already pointed at Arts West, a new building for the faculty of the arts at the University of Melbourne. Read More .... Publication: The Age Commercial Real Estate, March 11, 2017
Stereotyped as the dusty, musty boltholes of the quiet crowd, libraries have evolved with the changing world to keep doing what they do best: informing and connecting the community. Read more about Geelong Library & Heritage Centre…. Publication: WellBeing –Australia’s leading natural health & living Magazine Issue 167, 2017
At the AIA’s 2016 National Awards the Geelong Library & Heritage Centre won the prestigious Sir Zelman Cowen Award for Public Architecture for ARM Architecture. It also was named National Commercial Master Builder of the Year for Kane Constructions Pty Ltd and the National Commercial / Industrial Construction Award $20M to $50M category at the [...]
September 2009: For this issue, the Ecolibrium cover headline ‘Mainstream green – how an office fit-out achieved sustainability – without the frills’, announced that Umow Lai’s new tenancy at 10 Yarra Street, South Yarra, was the first in Victoria, and one of just two in Australia, to have achieved a 6 Star Green Star – [...]
Umow Lai would like to congratulate our friends and colleagues at ARM architecture, Stephen Ashton, Howard Raggatt, and Ian McDougall, on their exciting achievement - being awarded 2016 Australian Institute of Architects Gold Medal. Umow Lai have had the pleasure working on a number of award winning projects with ARM, including the Shrine of Remembrance, [...]
Achieving a 6 Star Green Star – Education As Built v1 Certified Rating has elevated the Australian Catholic University‘s Daniel Mannix Building into the distinguished class: a ‘World Leadership’ in environmentally sustainable construction. The award, announced in early 2016 from the Green Building Council of Australia, compliments the 6 Star Green Star Design Rating received [...]
Astute audiovisual design helps the Uni of SA's Jeffrey Smart Building deliver on its promise to promote student engagement. Article from Feb/Mar Issue of AV Mag 2016 The University of South Australia's new Jeffrey Smart Building embodies a lot of fresh thinking about teaching and learning. For starters, it's not really the kind of building [...]
Education is one of the stars of Australia's rising export services sector, with foreign student numbers predicted to surpass the record level of 120,000 in 2009. The rise in demand for rental accommodation has attracted international student accommodation provider Scape Living to our shores. Umow Lai has been selected by Scape for their entry into [...]
