Albury NSW AUS

Client: City of Albury
Completion: 2007
Construction Value: $8M
Awards: AIA (National) Public Architecture Award - 2008, Australian Institute of Architects (VIC) “Public Architecture Award” 2008

“Albury Library/Museum has revolutionised the reading and borrowing habits of the city in the past year. More children are borrowing more books, and the adults are following them. Staff are reporting “a phenomenal increase across a range of services”

Border Mail. 26 July 2008

ARM is proud to have provided the architectural services for the Albury Library/Museum. After being appointed in early 2003, ARM began working with Albury City Council to create the combined facility of the Albury Public Library and the Albury Museum. Council’s vision was for a single civic facility to provide a library, museum, community and new IT facilities for the Albury region, all co-located as a new type of public building.

Our architectural vision for the building was to bring together reminiscences and almost familiar elements from the Albury region; the giant webbing of the railway bridge over the Murray, the banks, levees and trees of the surrounding landscape, the river course itself, the streetscape of the Civic precinct, the coved cornices of a railway carriage, even the types of materials that one sees on the buildings in Albury.