Lahz Nimmo Architects

UNSW Southwest Receiving Point

Lahz Nimmo Architects were engaged to design this new building to collect together displaced activities from an adjacent courtyard development and as an infill structure to complete the corner junction of two existing buildings. The functional building brief was essentially utilitarian in nature, but the building has an important urban design role to play at a very public location at the UNSW Kensington Campus.

The new building is subservient to the larger Old Main Building and defers to that building in terms of tectonic expression. The elevations are assembled in a collage like manner with a simple planar expression of the three primary materials of brick, aluminium and stone.