The issue of child neglect is handled with sensitivity and insight in this responsive building. Consciously understated from the street, the building employs a series of strategies that respect heartbreak and family disintegration. All trees on this forested site were retained and used as a template for the geometry of the central healing facility. The central space offers a magical serrated oculus open to the sky. This fine empathetic project demonstrates the influence that intelligent architecture and landscape can have on wellbeing.
AIA State award jury citation 2017
…close communication between the client and m3architecture enabled the unique needs of the centre to be met in a way that has exceeded the client’s expectations of what might be possible.
Professor Mick Keniger writing in Architecture Australia
The centre is spectacular and lives up to the promises of the architect’s sketches… and will be delivering very essential and much needed services
Tricia Brand, Deputy Vice Chancellor James Cook University
Thank you so much for your fabulous design and project management that has created our awesome building!! We’re super proud of it
Dr Katrina Lines, CEO Act for Kids
