Two Rocks Town Centre

This is the Two Rocks town centre and Marina designed in 1975 by Forbes and Fitzhardinge. Wonderful, albeit unloved and showing its age,little town centre development. Strong forms and bold details at a nice human scale, with a variety of level changes, volume diffenrences, setbacks etc create an interesting ’street’ and surrounds. Similiar in form to the UWA music school completed soon after.

East Perth Train Station

The East Perth Train Station was designed by Forbes and Fitzhardinge in 1969. This is, in my opinion, the best example of large scale public architecture in WA. It is one of the most polarising buildings here, you either adore it, or hate it . This is one of those buildings that proudly put our architecture at the forefront of an international movement. It is an original, and peculiarly West Australian structure, that sets it apart from a lot of our canonised architecture. It is unfortunately a style that operates outside the popular peramaters of good taste and acceptability. Tony Brand is one of the most important architects the state has seen pass through it, yet he is constantly on the periphery of vision. Anyways,  this building is soo good. It looks like an aircraft carrier. Thank god it was heritage listed. If this got knocked down, I would kill myself, or at least move to Chandigarh.