Bob Nation
Cultural & Civic, Urban & Masterplanning
Royal Adelaide Hospital
Stage
CURRENT
COMPLETE
Introduction
Coming at a time when Adelaide takes a fresh look at how its inner-city functions, what its needs are and how decisions that impact the city’s future are made, the Royal Adelaide Hospital Design Competition presents an opportunity to engage with the State’s ambitions for the city through the adaptive re-use of the Royal Adelaide Hospital site.
Requiring a thoughtful response to issues such as Adelaide’s existing and projected population, transport infrastructure, urban form and planning constraints, the competition seeks to position the site as a meeting point for the city.
The winner of this competition is SLASH with Phillips/Pilkington Architects. Their proposal expands the repertoire of civic spaces within Adelaide with a creative re-animation of the site’s historic fabric. While the existing city might be characterised as highly ordered and zoned, this scheme for a ‘miniature city within the city’ creatively challenged this logic, within the extant framework.
Winning Design
“This proposal expands the repertoire of civic spaces within Adelaide with a creative re-animation of the site’s historic fabric that invites useability, delivers diversity and creates a new identity with sensitivity to the past.”
Details
State
South Australia
Country
Kaurna Country
Client
Office for Design + Architecture South Australia
Project type
TWO-STAGE DESIGN
Competition Winners
SLASH with Phillips/Pilkington Architects
Jury (titles at time of engagement)
Catherine Slessor
● Editor, The Architectural Review
Dr. Catherin Bull
● Emeritus Professor Landscape Architecture, University of Melbourne
Marcus Spiller
● Principal & Partner, SGS Economics & Planning
Shelley Penn
● Director, Shelley Penn Architect
Tim Horton
● Commissioner, NSW Land and Environment Court
Timothy Hill
