STEEL PROFILE® Edition 134 out now
For more than 40 years, STEEL PROFILE® Magazine has showcased the creative use of steel in the built environment and the brilliant minds behind the architecture. We’re thrilled to launch Edition 134 – available now as a digital edition.
This year’s issue showcases five outstanding Australian projects that show the beauty, strength and versatility of steel, as well as its evolving role in contemporary architecture.
Take The Round Performing Arts Centre in Melbourne’s Nunawading by BKK Architects and Kerstin Thompson Architects. Circular in nature and topped by a golden crown clad in COLORBOND® steel in colour Calisto®, this multi-award-winning cultural project has become a landmark destination for the local community.
In Adelaide, JPE Design Studio created a groundbreaking learning centre at Seaton High School, one of five entrepreneurial schools in the state. Bold angles and lofty parapet walls in shimmering COLORBOND® steel define the new centre, which has not only revitalised the school but earned plenty of accolades, including the Award for Educational Architecture at the 2023 South Australian Architecture Awards.
A world away, in the tiny NSW South Coast hamlet of Rosedale, Scale Architecture was inspired by Australian coastal shacks to inform its design of Rosedale House, which replaced a much-loved family holiday home destroyed in the Black Summer bushfires of 2019-2020. With a steel roof and walls in COLORBOND® steel's classic Manor Red®, the house is a striking presence among the more traditional coastal homes that populate the area. “It’s the only house like it,” says owner Tom Zubrycki.
Another classic Australian building informed the design of Five Vineyard, a boutique winery on the outskirts of Melbourne. Franco Fiorentini of F2 Architecture looked to the form of iconic farm sheds when envisioning the main building at the heart of the winery. An overhanging upper storey clad in near-black COLORBOND® steel is contrasted with stone and timber to create a dramatic presence among the verdancy of the vines.
On the Gold Coast, RealSpace Creative brought a new level of creativity to the childcare space with its design for Sunkids Mermaid Waters. The centre’s impressively curvaceous roof – supported by hundreds of bespoke, light gauge steel trusses made from TRUECORE® steel – was envisioned by architect Hooman Jaffar as creating a sense of embrace for the 162 children who attend Sunkids.
In addition to the five projects, we also speak to Ben Peake of Carter Williamson, named 2023’s National Emerging Architect by the AIA, and to lauded Perth-based practice Officer Woods, whose Spinifex Hill Project Space won the 2024 COLORBOND® Award for Steel Architecture.
We hope you enjoy the issue.