Synergy building at CSIRO Black Mountain campus, Canberra by BVN
“The building is like Venice,” says architect and BVN principal, James Grose. He is referring to how, on the outside, Synergy at CSIRO has many address points and never reveals all of itself at once. On the inside, it is stimulating visually, never repetitive and replete with intriguing openings and corridors which disguise their end-points.
Be that as it may, this is deliberately a very Australian building. Not in any literal sense, but in the sense that “authentic architecture,” says Grose, “has a resonance of its place”. Like major research institutions all over the world, the new Synergy building expects to host many international visitors. “It’s the flagship of CSIRO,” says Grose, “and hence it needs to be seen as…
