November 2010

We are proud to announce the successful completion of Champions: Thoroughbred Racing Gallery at the National Sports Museum.  The opening was scheduled to co-incide with the launch of the 2010 Spring Racing Carnival, hosted at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.  ‘Champions’ is the final stage of the National Sports Museum project, a collaboration spanning the past 8 years between CMD and the Melbourne Cricket Club.  For completed project images please click here.

Photography by John Gollings

Opened / September 2010
Floor Area / 95m²

The third and final stage of the National Sports Museum, ‘Champions’ celebrates the history, tradition and achievements of Australian racing.  It is also the new home of the Australian Racing Hall of Fame.  The collection features many gems from icons of Australian racing including Trainer Bart Cummings’ 12 Melbourne Cups, Phar Lap’s racing ‘colours’ (silks), bridle and racing plate and the skeleton of 1890 Melbourne Cup winner, Carbine.  The opening of the Champions gallery marks the completion of the National Sports Museum project and is a welcome addition to the wide array of sports represented.

Photography by John Gollings
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CMD has now completed the design and documentation of major works at the National Library of Australia. The work includes a new Treasures Gallery, an Exhibition Gallery and extensive revisions to the Main Reading Room. Construction will begin in late 2010 for completion in late 2011.

Foyer to Galleries and Main Reading Room

Entrance to Treasures Gallery

Entrance to Main Reading Room

Our current projects include:
/ Hamer Hall Exhibition & Public Programme Proposal, The Arts Centre, Melbourne
/ Treasures and Exhibition Galleries, National Library of Australia, Canberra / Opening 2011
/ Landmarks: People and Places across Australia, National Museum of Australia, Canberra / Opening 2011
/ Newcastle Regional Museum, Newcastle / Opening 2011

Our recently completed projects:
/ Champions - Thoroughbred Racing Gallery, National Sports Museum, Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne / Opened September 2010
/ World War II Gallery Half-life Refurbishment, Australian War Memorial, Canberra / Opened August 2010 

CMD is in the final stages of documentation of the Newcastle Regional Museum in collaboration with Sydney architect, FJMT.  The new museum will be housed in 3 historic locomotive workshops in the Honeysuckle precinct.  CMD is designing the permanent exhibitions, including galleries dedicated to Work, Play, Transport, Coal and Newcastle on the World Stage.  The museum is scheduled to open in May, 2011.

Construction has commenced on the National Museum’s newest permanent gallery. Due to open in 2011 Landmarks: People and Places across Australia will include objects large and small, including a windmill! Find out more here.

Here are some renderings we produced during the concept design stage of the project showing some of the other big objects.