Orange Regional Museum Building, NSW Community Centre Images
Orange Regional Museum and Community Centre
Byng Street Building in New South Wales ? design by Crone Architects
9 Feb 2019
Orange Regional Museum and Community Centre Building
Design: Crone Architects
Location: Orange Regional Museum, 151 Byng Street, New South Wales, Australia
Orange Regional Museum and Community Centre by Niall Durney & Ashley Dennis
The building connects a series of previously unsuccessful public open spaces and disparate buildings by incorporating layers of Building, Landscape and Events Spaces to respectfully integrate the new building into the existing precinct, creating a new identity and strengthening civic conditions within the site.
The design can be understood and experienced in different ways at the human scale as visitors move around, up or through the building, blurring the distinction between architecture and landscape with each interface responding uniquely to its immediate context.

The design can be understood and experienced in different ways as the user walks around, up, or through the building. It blurs the distinction between architecture and landscape with each interface responding to its context. The grassed roof is a defining feature of the design, rising from the existing lawn, providing a public green space and new vantage point to the adjacent park and across Orange City. Intended as a flexible space, the lawn can be used for a variety of functions including out...