DATE: Friday 6 October - 5:45pm for 6:30pm show
VENUE: Art Room by Bark Architects
413 Sunrise Road, Tinbeerwah, Sunshine Coast
(Kabi Kabi Jinibara Land)
Duration 70 minutes.
Comedian and self-proclaimed architecture nerd Tim Ross is picking up the microphone to bring to life his acclaimed ABC TV series with a brand new stage show, somewhat predictably titled, Designing a Legacy Live 2023.
Part slideshow, part stand up comedy and part architecture talk, Designing a Legacy Live sees Tim doing what he loves best – telling stories anchored by his passion for Australian architecture and design.
Since hanging up his radio headphones, Tim has created and presented the award-winning Streets Of Your Town and two series of Designing a Legacy for ABC-TV, not to mention authoring three bestselling books – Scorcher, Motel and The Rumpus Room.
In addition to regularly hosting his local pre-school’s annual fundraiser, Tim has performed live in more than 100 architecturally significant buildings across Australia, the UK and US. Tim was awarded the President’s Prize from the Australian Institute of Architects, followed by an honorary fellow of the Institute in 2022.
Tim Ross is one of our finest story tellers, don’t miss this opportunity to see him on stage.
“[Tim] Ross has become one of TV’s most persuasive presenters: authentic, congenial, and knowledgeable. His passion though is the way that good design can create a sense of community, a sense of place, and offer, in difficult times, much needed, visions for our future.”
– Graeme Blundell, The Australian
Bark Studio and Art Room
Architects Lindy Atkin and Stephen Guthrie’s brief for themselves, with the ‘Bark Studio’ (2001) and the ‘Art Room’ (2022), was to demonstrate their design approach and philosophies, whilst making an inspiring place to live and work.
Elevated as a modernist pavilion in the Noosa hinterland, the Studio is a modular structure of portal frames wrapped with glass on three sides and a plywood ‘billboard’ facing the road.
Twenty years on, the Art Room is a timber companion building, next to the award winning Studio. The name comes from its previous life as an art classroom for a high school at Toowoomba. As a 1970's prefabricated school building, it has been relocated and transformed with plywood lining and Blackbutt doors and cladding. The veranda and ‘port racks’ have been replaced with 1.3km of recycled hardwood battens as an operable screen, providing privacy and vistas, whilst celebrating the play of light and shadow.
The Art Room has inherent flexibility and adaptability to be configured as an event or meeting space, a work space, guest quarters or a small house.
Eye catching and memorable, this pair of buildings perches carefully on the hillside and generously frames a ‘public’ view of the Noosa coastline.
Images by Christopher Frederick Jones.
This event is proudly presented in partnership with Sunshine Coast Open House.
