Summer Place Pavilion, Albury, NSW Temporary Building, Australian Architecture Images
Summer Place Pavilion in Albury
16 Feb 2022
Design: AKIMBO Architecture
Location: Albury, New South Wales, Australia

Photos by Jeremy Weihrauch, Rhys Holland and AKIMBO Architecture
Summer Place Pavilion, NSW
Summer Place – Architecture Pavilion
The 2021 instalment of the Albury City Council?s annual architecture pavilion has been completed. It can be found in QEII Square, behind the Murray Art Museum Albury from 5 November, 2021 – 27 March, 2022.

Carly Martin, Director of Akimbo Architecture, is the first local architect invited to design the Summer Place Pavilion.Previous years of the pavilion have been designed by Raffaello Roselli (2018) and CHROFI Architects (2019).
Akimbo Architecture used the opportunity of designing a temporary pavilion in the main square of Albury to reflect on the experience of summer in the local region, and the significance of the Murray River and specifically the riverside trees and the shade they provide.
This ephemeral architecture aims to bridge the divide between QEII Square in the centre of Albury and the surrounding river landscape. The softly curved form is a container which gathers a collection of large, locally harvested live edge timber slabs. The slabs are positioned vertically, maintaining their connection to the forest from which they came. Along the river, trees may be anywhere up to 1000 years old, linking an ancient Indigenous ...