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GHD continues to build on its highly regarded reputation for delivering award winning public buildings and civic spaces covering:

  • Exhibiting buildings and convention centres
  • Concert halls and theatres
  • Churches, mosques and temples
  • Town halls and council chambers
  • Libraries
  • Civil defence and emergency services facilities
  • Police stations, court houses and justice facilities
  • Prisons and detention centres

For further information, contact:

Gavan Ranger
Tel: +61 7 3316 4314
Email: Gavan Ranger

Auckland City Library

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Despite its prominent position in the CBD, the Auckland Central City Library has struggled to achieve a significant presence in the city. The facility opened in 1971 and substantial design modifications were undertaken in 1980. In early 2004, GHD assisted in the development of a future strategy for the library. The strategy addressed challenges including transforming innercity demographics, streetscape issues, and how the library could be better used by key stakeholders such as the nearby art galleries and university, Auckland city archives and various institutions.

The final design for the library alterations focused on achieving improved visibility and accessibility. One of the primary features of the project was the creation of a new entrance in the form of a lantern that connects to the library via a new café.


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Canberra Convention Centre

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Even on foggy days, the Canberra Centre is bright and welcoming – thanks to computer modelling.

The AUD$55 million redevelopment includes 40 additional shops in a two-level retail centre located between four existing buildings of differing ages and floor levels. It also features a glass ceiling supported by architectural steel trusses, complementing an existing atrium.


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Guide Dogs Victoria

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GHD architects have designed a stylish contemporary new education centre for Guide Dogs Victoria.

Set among the bushland along the Yarra River in Kew, the proposed new building will provide a central venue for training, education and administration activities for the association. GHD designed the facility to consolidate the various campus buildings. It will present a fresh image by providing a new entrance experience and arrival point in a low, lean envelope.


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Lilydale Community Mausoleum

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The new mausoleum complex is to be built on the eastern side of the Lilydale cemetery, in Victoria. The site has dramatic views to the Yarra Ranges and beyond.

A contemporary building, set into an Australian landscape, the construction consists of 510 pre-cast crypt units, with a distinctive cantilevered  roof.


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Lishui River Water Front Urban Design

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The riverfront precinct in one of China’s most famous tourist cities is being transformed into a vibrant urban space.

GHD’s Beijing and Changsa offices recently won an international competition to provide the urban design that will revitalise the waterfront precinct of the city of Zhangjiajie, on the Lishui River in Hunan province, in the world heritage-listed Zhangjiajie national park.


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Torquay Bowls Club

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GHD developed a scheme for the complete redevelopment of the Torquay Lawn Bowls site.

Extensive client and stakeholder consultation resulted in a scope of works that included one additional green, new and re-organised car parking, new bowls club facilities, and the possibility of incorporating both community and RSL spaces.


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Hanoi Opera house

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This is a winning design, providing international standard performance space.  


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Russell Hawken

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Russell is the Orewa (and Auckland) Office Manager and for GHD’s New Zealand / Pacific Buildings group consisting of an integrated team of architects, structural and civil engineers, building services engineers, urban designers and landscape architects.  He has over 35 years experience as an architect and has been involved in project managing numerous large and often complex public projects.  During his career Russell has developed a specialization in justice projects, especially courts and correctional facilities.

Position: Property & Buildings Business Group Manager and Principal Architect, Orewa, New Zealand.
Tel: +64 9 426 4456

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Gavan Ranger

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Gavan is a widely experienced architect who has worked on major projects in both the public and private sectors whilst appointed to roles including Chief Architect, Transport, for the Australian Government, Properties Architect for Carlton and United Breweries, Development Manager and Design Manager for the redevelopment of the Adelaide Railway Station, and as a principal of major architectural and design practices in Adelaide, Canberra and Brisbane.

Position: Business Leader, Property & Buildings, Australia/New Zealand
Tel: +61 7 3316 4314

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