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The Geelong Library and Heritage Centre
Architecture
If you’ve ventured to Victoria’s second biggest city in the last couple of years, you may have sighted a new eye-catching presence on the skyline. Opened in November 2015, the Geelong Library and Heritage Centre (GLHC), known as ‘The Dome’, is the ultra-modern centrepiece of the low-lying cityscape.
In today’s story, our architecture columnist Stuart Harrison discusses this award-winning building by Melbourne-based firm Ashton Raggatt McDougall Architecture (ARM).
13th March, 2017
What a spectacular building, my next trip down the coast might involve a detour to check it out! As a small aside, I found this article very difficult to read – I don’t know whether I’m just not versed in architect-speak or merely suffering from a caffeine deficit, but I’ve read it three times and still don’t really understand the bulk of the article :-(
what a fantastic piece of architecture. Go Geelong!!
It’s an amazing building, such a shame there’s nothing mentioned of the kids level or any photographs. It’s our 5 year old’s favourite place to go. Such beautiful reading areas, fun interactive computer games (“I’ve got to go do my computer work Mum”) dress ups for story time and a giant connect 4 game as well as being practical having a baby change area right in there. Highly recommend taking kids of any age along… don’t miss it!
Really inspiring! Love ⎔⎔⎔ it !!
what would the design style be defined – do you think it would belong to Post-modernism style ?