PROJECT CRUSH //

Sublime and wondrous.

That’s what I thought when I read about the newly designed Aboriginal Art and Cultures Center (link in first comment).

This is a great example of how architecture and design can inspire storytelling and honour Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples culture.

The amazing rooftop draws inspiration from temporary shelters known as “humpy’s” represented as basket-like forms. The interior and exterior levels embrace the Aboriginal concepts of earth, land and sky.

Rosina Di Maria from Woods Bagot conveyed that “the Aboriginal Art and Cultures Centre will be a place for all Australians to remember ourselves, to learn the truth telling of our past, and to re-imagine ourselves together to create new memories as a connected community. It will be a platform for developing Australian culture — informed by the past, shaped by the now, for our future.”

🙌 What a beautiful, proud place from which to cherish, honour and foster knowledge.

🙌 What a gorgeous place to nurture and care for stories from the oldest culture on earth.

🙌 What a great opportunity for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people to present and cultivate their stores and culture in a venue that will no doubt become a tourist beacon.

That is worth crushing over!

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