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WOOD MARSH,   Wood Marsh Pty Ltd Architecture is a private Architectural Practice that was founded by Roger Wood and Randal Marsh in 1983. Their design aesthetic and approach is often based on the sculptural form, a sense of drama, spatial arrangements, mood, and three-dimensional design. Their works range from residential to public infrastructure, often informed significantly, by the site and locality.

Personal life
Roger Wood and Randal Marsh, both, born in the 1950’s and Melbourne-born, completed a Bachelor of Architecture at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Marsh graduated with Honours and Wood received the RAIA (Royal Austrlian Institute of Architects) award upon his graduation.

After working for Practices such as Williams Boag and Daryl Jackson, the two established their own private practice “Biltmoderne”, along with Dale Jones-Evans in 1983. Jones-Evans left the firm in 1987, from which emerged Wood Marsh Architects.

Earlier projects that lead to Wood Marsh’s prominence were their designs for nightclub interiors in the mid '80s - creating theatrical flourishes for Metro, Inflation and Chasers.

Both Architects tutor and lecture and Universities and Institutions around the world; and contribute educationally to the Architectural community.

As good friends, as well as colleagues, they work on every project together, as a team, facilitating both the design process and running of the practice.

Today the practice comprises 15 employees and works on Projects that include sets/installations, road bridges, and furniture.

PUBLIC
ACCA (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art) was completed in 2002 and is located in Southbank. It is a gallery presenting a diverse range of creative visual art. The design aims to be expressive of its function; a sculpture in which art can be viewed. The minimum external openings make the gallery easily adaptable, to accommodate the wide range of media on show. The gallery’s robust form is solidified by the use of one cladding, Corten steel, over a steel frame, also making reference to the industries that once occupied the site.

MULTIRESIDENTIAL
YVE apartment were completed in 2006 and were awarded the Victorian Architectural Medal. The building was designed as a three dimensional structure, and its symmetrical design gives equal space to the residencies and also an exterior aestheticism in which the views of the tower are the same from different vantage points. The clover shape of the building also minimises overlook into neighbouring apartments.

RESIDENTIAL
Gottlieb House completed 1990, won the 1994 Victorian Residential Architecture Award. The house is introspective and presents no internal program to the street and stands unreceptive in conventional suburbia. The building explores the arrangement of form and the interaction of these forms and spaces as a whole. Basic materials emphasise the buildings composition.

URBAN DESIGN
The Eastlink project was completed in 2009. The project consists of 45km of freeway linking the existing eastern freeway to Frankston. Through the design and manipulation of noise walls, tunnel entrances and bridges, an architectural sculpture that snakes its way through Melbourne’s outer suburbs is the result.

Awards
Wood Marsh’s awards include 29 RAIA Awards, to date, along with the 1998 and 2006 Victorian Architectual Medal and The Walter Burley Griffin award for Urban Design in 1998.

Awards
2006

Royal Australian Institute of Architects, Harold Desbrowe-Annear, Residential Architecture Award, Yve

Royal Australian Institute of Architects, Victorian Architecture Medal 2006, Yve

2005

Royal Australian Institute of Architects, Residential Architecture Award, Yarra's Edge Tower 5

2004

Royal Australian Institute of Architects – National Awards, Commendation – Residential Buildings, Barro House

Royal Australian Institute of Architects, Residential Architectural Award, Barro House

2003

Royal Australian Institute of Architects, Institutional Architectural Award, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art

Royal Australian Institute of Architects - National Awards, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Short listed by National Jury

2002

Royal Australian Institute of Architects, Commercial - Alterations & Extensions Architecture Award, Prince of Wales - Health Spa

2001

Royal Australian Institute of Architects - National Awards, Lachlan MacQuarie Award - Heritage, Mansion Hotel - Werribee Park

Royal Australian Institute of Architects - National Awards, Award for Interior Architecture Mansion Hotel - Werribee Park

Royal Australian Institute of Architects, John George Knight Award Heritage Architecture, Mansion Hotel - Werribee Park

Royal Australian Institute of Architects, Marion Mahony Award Interior Architecture, Mansion Hotel - Werribee Park

2000

Australian Council of Building Design Professions, Award of Commendation, Urban Design Australian Award, Docklands Infrastructure

Royal Australian Institute of Architects - National Awards, Award of Commendation for Outstanding Architecture, Urban Design, Docklands Infrastructure

Royal Australian Institute of Architects, Award of Merit for Outstanding Architecture, Residential - Alterations + Extensions, A & G Curtis House

Royal Australian Institute of Architects, Award of Merit for Outstanding Architecture, Urban Design, Bourke Street Pedestrian Bridge

1999

Museum of Contemporary Art, Seppelt Contemporary Art Awards 99, Visual Art Environmental Design Object Design, Category : Environmental Design

Royal Australian Institute of Architects, Award of Commendation for Outstanding Architecture, Interior Architecture, Taylor Residence

Royal Australian Institute of Architects, Award of Merit for Outstanding Architecture, Residential - Alterations + Extensions, Curtis House

1998

Royal Australian Institute of Architects- National Awards, Walter Burley Griffin Award for Urban Design, Eastern Freeway Extension Sound Barriers

Royal Australian Institute of Architects - National Awards, Sir Zelman Cowen Award for Public Buildings, Commendation

Building 220 – RMIT Bundoora Campus

Australian Institute of Landscape Architects, Australian Native Landscapes Project Award, Eastern Freeway Extension Sound Barriers, For VicRoads Merit Award

Royal Australian Institute of Architects, Victorian Architecture Medal 1998

Royal Australian Institute of Architects, William Wardell Award Institutional Architecture, Building 220, RMIT, Bundoora Campus

Royal Australian Institute of Architects, Joseph Reed Award for Urban Design, Eastern Freeway Extension Sound Barriers

1997

Royal Australian Institute of Architects, Award of Merit for Outstanding Architecture, Institutional New Category, Deakin University, Burwood Campus

1996

Royal Australian Institute of Architects, Harold Desbrowe-Annear, Residential Architecture Award, Cromwell Road Apartments

1994

Royal Australian Institute of Architects, Award of Merit for Outstanding Architecture, Residential New Category, Gottlieb House

1991

Royal Australian Institute of Architects, Award of Merit for Outstanding Architecture, Residential New Category, Kyritsis House

1989

Royal Australian Institute of Architects, Award of Merit for Outstanding Architecture, Residential Alterations and Extensions Category, Frantzeskos House

1987

Royal Australian Institute of Architects, Award of Merit for Outstanding Architecture, Residential New Category, Choong House

1985

Royal Australian Institute of Architects, Merit Award for Outstanding Architecture, Commercial New Category, Inflation Nightclub