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PARK(ing) Day is an annual, worldwide event that invites citizens everywhere to transform metered parking spots into temporary parks for the public good. Started 6 years ago by Rebar Studio in San Francisco, the event has been getting bigger and bigger every year. With strong endorsement and support from Adelaide City Council and growing public support, the Adelaide event is going from strength to strength.

Last year, Adelaide took part for the first time in which Swanbury Penglase and 11 other ‘PARKers’ took part in which we tied as the winner of the Adelaide Review’s People’s Choice Award. This year Daniel Fighera of SPA’s architecture team played an important role in co-organising the event and office was one of 34 ‘PARKers’ to take part.

This year the aim was create our PARK from waste materials that could be recycled afterwards. ‘SPArk’, the title of the PARK, constituted three stool seats, a tree with origami birds and flowers and a paper mache full size bicycle positioned on borrowed faux grass.

Swanbury Penglase is pleased to again be part of Sustainable House Day, a national initiative which sees sustainable homes around Australia opened up to the public, it provides a real demonstration of sustainable practices and principles at work.

Our contribution this year is the Glen Osmond residence, winner of the 2010 AIA John S Chappel Award for outstanding residential architecture.

Please come along and visit between 10am and 4pm, we’ll have people there to show you through and answer any questions you may have. The address is 16 Fowlers Road, Glen Osmond.

For more information on the house visit www.swanburypenglase.com/projects/glen-osmond-house

For more information on sustainable house day go to www.sustainablehouseday.com.

We look forward to seeing you there.

SPA and friends enjoyed the opening of Carly Snowell’s installation for the SALA festival last Friday night. ‘Epical Space’ can be viewed in the SPA office till the 28th of August.

August 5^th to 28^th is the annual SALA Festival (South Australian Living Artists) and SPA is getting involved.

This year we are an official SALA Venue and are playing host to an installation piece by Carly Snoswell called Epical Space. The installation can be viewed from August 5^th to the 28^th so come in during business hours to check it out.  We’re also hosting an Opening Night on August 12th, please contact Rachel on 8212 2679 if you would like more information.

Outside of this there are SPA staff involved in their own events.

Senior Associate, Wayne Grivell is participating in the ‘The Devil is in the Detail’ exhibition at Golding Wines in the Adelaide Hills, on between August 12th and September 4th. Other artists involved are Lucy Golding, Liz Munt and Jim Parker. Opening night is also August 12th with the exhibition space open Monday to Sunday 10am -4pm.

Interior Designer, Michelle Giuffreda is holding her exhibition ‘Arrival’ at the Gallery on Waymouth, Waymouth Street in the city from August 17^th to August 31st. Opening night is August 17^th with guest speaker from the Jam Factory CEO, Brian Parkes. The exhibition is open Monday to Friday 9am until late.

Best wishes to all those involved for a successful festival.

It has been a very busy time for SPA’s landscape team of late and we have just issued a special Landscape dedicated edition of Sitenotes

SPA’s landscape team have been busy creating designs for the future development of Le Fevre Peninsula. There are five open spaces of particular focus that will incorporate areas for gathering and seating, walking and cycling trails, access to Port River, river viewing points and a play park with a climbing structure and flying fox to boot!

Trail projects are keeping us busy with the landscape team confirming alignments of the Sturt River trail, continuing to the develop the 2006 Sturt River Linea Park Master Plan as well as the development of mountain bike trails in NSW and Victoria.

Finally, the SPA landscape team has recently enjoyed collaborating with local artists to develop a sculptural new entry statement proposal at Gawler and a number of features to be incorporated into the architecture and landscape at the new mental health facilities at Glenside.

For more details on these projects contact the office for a copy of Sitenotes.

The interior design team have celebrated yet another award for the University College London fit-out, this time a highly commended runner up award in Forbo’s eighth Fly Forbo competition.

We are delighted to announce that the project team of SPA and Medical Architecture has been awarded a high commendation for the Glenside Campus Redevelopment New Health Facilities project in the Design and Health International Academy Awards in the Future Health Category. This category recognises excellence in design and briefing process. The project has also been shortlisted for the Overall Award Winner 2011, which will be announced on July the 9^th at the Design & Health World Congress 2011 in Boston, USA.

On Friday June 10^th we celebrated two wins with a single entry into the AIA Awards. Pavilion 4, an extension to the award winning home of Director Andrew Phillips, took home the Architecture Renovation Award and the Small Architecture Project Award. Congratulations Andrew!

For a design overview of our current New Health Facilities project at Glenside Campus and further information about our ongoing collaboration and consultancy service with UK health specialists MAAP, click on the following links:

Glenside Campus Redevelopment Brochure

Swanbury Penglase & MAAP Brochure

Last month interior designers Felicity Hope and Michelle Giuffreda and Director David Bagshaw travelled to Melbourne to represent SPA at the Australian Interior Design Awards.  The 2011 AIDA, held at the Docklands in Melbourne, recognise and celebrate excellence in interior design with jurors appointed by the Design Institute of Australia. Swanbury Penglase was thrilled to be shortlisted in the Public Design category for University College London (UCL).

Swanbury Penglase has kick started the year with a very busy couple of months. For a full update contact the office for the first 2011 issue of Sitenotes, here are some highlights…

SPA is working with one of the largest private developers in China on a large scale residential and commercial development in Changsha, Hunan Province. Integration of the old and new drives the design philosophy, referencing the history of the site with the adaption and reuse of existing buildings and materials. SPA is responsible for the design of six thirty three story residential towers, low rise townhouses and apartments. The development will also include activity facilities and a kindergarten to suit community living for all generations.

A dynamic built form expresses the imagination of students and the innovation of science and maths, and provides a place of refuge and community for students at Flinders University. The new Science Innovation Learning Centre is designed to help overcome a lack of interest in maths and science courses. The ‘sine wave’ inspired roof design along with this great result saw Mossops win a Master Builder’s Award in the category of Excellence in Commercial Building ($2-5 million) for the project.

We hope you have had a great start to the year, stay tuned for more updates!

The start of 2011 has been tough for the people of Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria, not to mention Christchurch and more recently Japan. In February SPA hosted a BBQ to catch up with colleagues from other firms and to raise money for flood relief. Attendees included staff from Lucid, Parsons Brinkerhoff and Wallbridge & Gilbert. Over $1000 was raised on the night from donations and a silent wine auction, with wines generously donated from our office! We also understand that Wallbridge & Gilbert made a separate contribution on behalf of their staff. A big thanks to the generous spirits of all who helped out and those who attended.