Mark Raggatt is a director of ARM Architecture. His written speculations can be found at thebabelfiasco.com.
Mark Raggatt's Latest contributions
Phive – 5 Parramatta Square
Amidst Parramatta’s sprouting field of skyscrapers, the city’s sculpturesque new civic centre and library building cantilevers over the public square and carves out its own space, creating “a stage for the theatre of community life.”
A storied site: Marrickville Library
Decades of advocacy, negotiation and design have been required to bring the new Marrickville Library to this site, where an original hospital building has been reused, preserving memories while promising hospitality, egalitarianism and adaptability.
Recalling bygone grandeur: Rail Operations Centre
Memorializing the tectonics of tunnels, bridges and nineteenth-century suburban train stations, this red-brick, big-box building in inner-city suburban Sydney is a rich form of infrastructure architecture that represents an investment in workers and in the area’s rapidly changing urban fabric.
A ‘modern architectural masterpiece’: Punchbowl Mosque
In the south-west Sydney suburb of Punchbowl, the ritualistic and formal traditions of the Islamic faith find contemporary expression in a monumental ode to prayer.
All we can hope or ask for: The Architecture Symposium Sydney
At The Architecture Symposium Sydney, an event billed as giving voice to Australia’s world-class architects, Mark Raggatt found the day full of questioning and hope.
Haven’t You Always Wanted …? 2016 NGV Architecture Commission
The second iteration of the NGV Architecture Commission, Haven’t You Always Wanted …? by M@ Studio Architects, explores dematerialization and the expression of the civic in Melbourne’s future outer suburbs.
National Centre for Synchrotron Science
Bates Smart’s National Centre for Synchrotron Science in Melbourne creates the conditions in which to see.
The swagman and the squatter
The legacy of Canberra’s National Gallery and the High Court of Australia buildings, by Mark Raggatt.
