IMPRESSIVE buildings in Taylors Hill and East Keilor have been entered into the 2013 Victorian Architecture Awards.
Across the state, more than 240 projects have entered the annual contest held by the Australian Institute of Architects.
The Taylors Hill Youth and Community Centre designed by Hede Architects has been entered in the New Public Architecture category of the awards.
While in East Keilor the Penleigh and Essendon Grammar’s Infinity Centre – designed by McBride Charles Ryan – has also been nominated.
The Taylors Hill Youth and Community Centre features a zig-zag facade of glass and thermally efficient refrigeration panels.
The centre is home to a youth hub adjoining sports grounds and a skate bowl activities.
At its centre are community rooms, counselling rooms and youth workers and to the west are sports changing rooms, band rehearsal and social rooms. To the east is an internet lounge, courtyard, counselling and meeting spaces.
The building also collects water to service its adjoining ovals.
Melton City Council’s Family, Youth and Housing Manager, Matthew Wilson said the centre benefits the community by providing a platform for the delivery of a range of services and programs such as youth services, neighbourhood house programs, family services, and the Brotherhood of St. Lawrence.
Mr Wilson said it will soon be home to one or more sporting clubs once an expression of interest process for use of the Taylors Hill Recreation Reserve is completed.
The 2013 Victorian Architecture Award entries will be exhibited at PIN UP Project Space, 15-25 Keele St, Collingwood, from 29 May to 29 June this year.
Winners will be announced on Friday 21 June at a presentation event in Docklands.Winners in each category will compete for the National Architecture Awards, announced on Friday 1 November at the Sydney Opera House.
