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ARM began in Melbourne, Australia in 1986 as a collaboration between Steve Ashton, Howard Raggatt and Ian McDougall. Since then, ARM has produced designs and analytical projects in architecture, urbanism, landscape and interior design.

Early projects in the areas of public housing, such as Sutton Street Housing Tower and Cheddar Road Elderly Housing, and in community health, with projects such as Brunswick Community Health Centre, demonstrated strikingly innovative architecture that was to be a hallmark of ARM's work. These projects and ARM's commitment to new public typologies captured the attention of the profession and a new body of clients. Later projects such as St Kilda Library (1994), RMIT Storey Hall (1995), National Museum of Australia (2000) and Marion Cultural Centre (2001) brought ARM international recognition.

ARM has maintained its dedication to design research and to speculative proposals that test the norms of architectural culture and of the city. ARM is consistently extending the possibilities of the range of building typologies and the iconography of form. Each project by ARM becomes a re-invention of the type. Digital Harbour at Melbourne Docklands (ARM masterplan 1996-2004) is a series of new building types housing technology start up and research businesses. In the Melbourne Recital Centre, the acoustic hall is remade, reuniting the constrictions of perfect acoustics and the possibilities of the decorative surface. In the Perth Arena, ARM has developed a civic and dynamic architecture, a first for sports and entertainment facility design. Likewise in the Melbourne Central redevelopment, they reinvented the shopping mall as an urban system, rather than a palace of shops.

Their work has been awarded a number of national and international prizes and featured in international exhibitions including the Venice Biennale and Royal College of the Arts, London. Their projects have become known worldwide through publication such as Charles Jencks' Architecture of the Jumping Universe, Blueprint UK (Best Public Building 2001), 10x10, Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture, Architects Today, 2000 Architects and Design City Melbourne. ARM continues at the forefront of propositions and research in the diverse fields of digital imagery, in the perception of space and shape, and the conversion of digital ideas to built form.

St Kilda Triangle, St Kilda, Vic

Carlton Brewery Redevelopment, Carlton, Vic

Melbourne Central Stage 2, Melbourne, Vic

RMIT Building 22 Redevelopment, Melbourne, Vic

Greenedge Retail Redevlopment, Greensborough, Vic

Hunter Central, Newcastle, NSW

Highpoint Retail Redevelopment, Maribyrnong, Vic

Perth Waterfront, Perth, WA

347 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Vic

Perth Arena, Perth, WA

Melbourne Theatre Company, Melbourne, VIC

Melbourne Recital Centre, Melbourne, VIC

One East Melbourne Apartment Tower, Melbourne, VIC

Albury Library Museum, Albury, NSW

Brisbane Central, Brisbane, QLD

2006 Welsh Church Caretakers Cottage, Melbourne, VIC

2005 Melbourne Central Redevelopment, Melbourne VIC

2005 Innovation Building Digital Harbour, Docklands, VIC

2005 Docklands Park, Docklands, VIC

2005 Westernport House, Somers, VIC

2003 Shrine of Remembrance Visitors Centre, Melbourne, VIC

2001 Marion Cultural Centre, Adelaide, SA

2001 National Museum of Australia, Canberra, ACT

1997 Victorian Arts Centre Corporate Lounges, Melbourne, VIC

1996 RMIT Storey Hall, Melbourne, VIC

1995 Promedicus Offices, Richmond, VIC

1994 St Kilda Town Hall & Library, St Kilda, VIC

1993 Howard Kronborg Clinic, Hawthorn, VIC

1990 Brunswick Community Health Centre, Brunswick, VIC

RAIA AWARDS
2007

1010 LaTrobe Street
RAIA (Vic Chapter)
Sir Osborn McCutcheon Commercial Architecture Award

RAIA (National)
Commercial Architecture Award

2007
National Museum of Australia
Australian Tourism Awards
Major Tourist Attraction Award

Melbourne Central Redevelopment
Property Council of Australia
Property Investment Award for Shopping Centres
General Property Trust (GPT)

RAIA AWARDS
2006

Melbourne Central
RAIA (National)
Walter Burley Griffin Award for Urban Design

RAIA (Vic Chapter)
Melbourne Prize
Commercial Architecture Award

2004
Shrine of Remembrance Undercroft Development
RAIA (National)
Walter Burley Griffin Award for Urban Design

RAIA (Vic Chapter)
Victorian Architecture Medal
John George Knight Award - Heritage
William Wardell Award - Institutional
Melbourne Prize

2002
National Museum of Australia
RAIA (ACT Chapter)
Award of Merit

AIATSIS (Part of NMA)
RAIA (ACT Chapter)
Colorbond Steel Award

Marion Cultural Centre
RAIA (SA Chapter)
Award of Merit

1997
Victorian Arts Centre Corporate Lounges
RAIA (Vic Chapter)
Marion Mahony Award - Interior Architecture

1996
Storey Hall RMIT
RAIA (National)
National Interior Architecture Award

RAIA (Vic Chapter)
Victorian Architecture Medal
William Wardell Award - Institutional
Marion Mahony Award - Interior Architecture

Slattery Office Fitout
RAIA (Vic Chapter)
Commendation Interior Architecture

ProMedicus Offices
RAIA (Vic Chapter)
Award of Merit - Commercial Alterations and Extensions

1995
St Kilda Town Hall Redevelopment
RAIA (Vic Chapter)
Commendation Institutional Alterations & Extensions
Commendation Interior Architecture

1994
Howard/Kronborg Clinic
RAIA (Vic Chapter)
Commercial Commendation

ABC TV Websters Project
RAIA (Vic Chapter)
Award of Merit - Commercial Alterations and Extensions

1990
Brunswick Community Health Centre
RAIA (Vic Chapter)
Victorian Architecture Medal
Institutional Alterations and Extensions

1989
Rosedale Primary School
RAIA (Vic Chapter)
Institutional Alterations and Extensions

1987
Sutton St. Estate Refurbishment
RAIA (Vic Chapter)
Multi Unit Housing Award of Merit

Grosvenor St. House
RAIA (Vic Chapter)
New Residential Award of Merit

1985
Kensington Community Health Centre
RAIA (Vic Chapter)
Institutional Award

2001
Blueprint International Architecture Award
Best New Public Building

Tan, Jeanne, ‘K is for home', Mark, no. 11, Dec 2007-Jan 2008, p 27 (K House)

‘National Museum of Australia', 1001 buildings you must see before you die, Wingfield (South Australia): Cameron House, 2007 p 800

‘RMIT Storey Hall', 1001 buildings you must see before you die, Wingfield (South Australia): Cameron House, 2007 p 723

‘Shrine of Remembrance', Architecture highlights, Hong Kong: Shanglin, 2007 pp 50-57

‘Melbourne Central', Architecture highlights, Hong Kong: Shanglin, 2007 pp 46-49

Heagney, Din, ‘Optic nerve', Monument, no 82, Dec 2007-Jan 2008, p 90 (1010 LaTrobe St)

‘Sir Osborne McCutcheon Award Commercial Architecture - 1010 La Trobe Street', Architect Victoria, Awards issue 2007, p 101-1

Keuning, David, ‘Modern Baroque', Mark, no 8 June-July 2007 p46 (1010 LaTrobe Street)

Crafti, Stephen, ‘Coastal understatement', Indesign, issue 28, February 2007, pp 166-171 (Westernport House)

Moore, Christopher, ‘Divine intervention', Houses, issue 54, 2007, pp 46-52 (Welsh Church)

McDougall, Ian, ‘Why architecture matters', Architecture Australia, January-February 2007, p 14

van Schaik, Leon, Design City Melbourne, Wiley-Academy, 2006, pp 140-145, 284-285

‘Perth Indoor Stadium', Architecture +, no. 11, 2006, p 18
Royal Academy Illustrated 2006: a selection from the 238th

Summer Exhibition (exhibition catalogue), Royal Academy, 2006, p 116

‘Marion Cultural Centre', Macro Micro City (exhibition catalogue, 10th International Architecture Exhibition), la Biennale di Venezia 2006, pp 55-57

‘Adey House', New directions in the Australian house, Pesaro, 2006, pp 364-3

Serrats, Marta, Sign graphics, Collins Design, 2005, pp 236-239

Van Schaik, Leon, ‘Australasia', AD: The new mix - culturally dynamic architecture, vol 75, no. 5, September-October 2005, pp 84-90

Masterton, Neil, ‘Melbourne Central', Monument, no. 65, 2005, pp 788-1

‘Top 200 practices', World Architecture, January 2004

The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture, Phaidon Press, 2004, pp 41, 56

Rattenbury, Kester et al, Architects today, Laurence King, 2004 pp 202-1

Ruby, Ilka et al, Images: a picture book of architecture, Prestel, 2004, p 72

Allpress, Brent, 'Ornamental operations', AD: Surface consciousness, vol 73 no 2, March-April 2003 pp 69-74

Benjamin, Andrew, ‘A secular temenos', Architecture Australia, vol 92 no 5, September-October 2003, pp 50--55

Tombesi, Paolo ‘Sign language', Domus, no. 849, June 2002, pp 54-65

Whenjun, Zhi & Lei, Qin, ‘Metaphoric expressiveness: literal and abstract metaphors at National Museum of Australia', Time + Architecture, no. 65, 2002-03, pp 58-65

‘Shrine of Remembrance', Next 8th International Architecture Exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia, Venice, 2002, pp 342-343

Ferguson, Angela, ‘Building by letters', Frame, no 29, November-December 2002, pp 84-91

Cadji, Miriam, ‘Cultural resolution', RIBA Journal, vol 108, no 3, March 2001, pp 8-9

Gibson, Grant, ‘Australia Rules', Blueprint, no.183, May 2001, pp 48-54

Jencks, Charles, ‘The meaning of Australia', Domus, no. 837, May 2001, pp 96-115

Reed, Dimity (Editor), Tangled destinies: National Museum of Australia, Images Publishing, 2001

Goad, Philip & Bingham-Hall, Patrick, Patrick, New directions in Australian architecture, Pesaro, 2001

Jencks, Charles, ‘How to speak Australian', Architecture, vol 90, no 8, August 2001, pp 82-91

MacMahon, Bill (ed), The Architecture of East Australia, Menges, 2001, pp 151, 173, 177, 179-181

Jackson, Davina & Johnson, Chris, Australian Architecture Now, Thames & Hudson, 2000, pp 12, 16, 18, 31, 40, 56, 57, 60, 77, 145, 174-79

Jencks, Charles, Architecture 2000 and beyond: success in the art of prediction, Wiley-Academy, 2000, pp 132

10x10, Phaidon Press, 2000, pp 56-9, 446

Clark, David, ‘Weird beauty', Architectural Record, November 2000, pp 106-111

Jencks, Charles, The Architecture of the Jumping Universe, Academy Editions, 1997

Marion Cultural Centre, ‘Australian Pavilion - International Architecture
Exhibition', Venice Biennale 2006

Melbourne Recital Hall and MTC Theatre project,
Royal Academy London Summer Exhibition 2006

Storey Hall, ‘ReBuilt Environment - Imitating Melbourne Architecture', City
Museum, September 2006

Kronborg Clinic, ‘Locating the Photographic', Plimsoll Gallery, University of
Tasmania, September 2006

Various projects by Ashton Raggatt McDougall, lab.3000 Digital Design
Biennale, Melbourne Museum, February 2005

Melbourne Shrine of Remembrance, Next 8th International Architecture
Exhibition Venice Biennale 2002