Australia's first purpose-built Pride Centre unveiled in St Kilda, Melbourne [View all]

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Brearley Architects and Urbanists and Grant Amon Architects unveil Australia's first purpose-built Pride Centre

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Australian architecture studios Brearley Architects and Urbanists and Grant Amon Architects have created Australia's first purpose-built centre for LGBTQ+ communities that incorporates tubular openings across its façade. The Victorian Pride Centre is a five-storey building located in Melbourne's beachside suburb of St Kilda and offers its queer community access to a number of services and safe spaces.





L-shaped in plan, the form of the building was derived from a collection of tubes organised in a stacked formation that grow taller as its volumes stagger further from the street. Its façade incorporates circular and oval-shaped cut-outs across its street elevation and is used as a shaded portico on its street-facing ground level as well as sculptural terraces across its first and second.







The concrete exterior is detailed with a skewed shadow of the circular cut-outs that punctuate its façade – exposing the textural layers of concrete beneath. Terraces are located at the front, street-facing areas of the building providing the Victorian Pride Centre with a prime location for events as well as viewing areas for relevant street parades and marches.









Designed by Brearley Architects and Urbanists and Grant Amon Architects, the building houses a number of organisations that will use the centre as their base while also providing spaces for external group meetings, events and projects. Alongside its workspaces, the Victorian Pride Centre contains health and welfare centres, a book shop, a gallery and a theatre. A café, rooftop events space and a community garden or set to be added as the next stage of development.

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