DASH Architects

02/05/2025

26/03/2025

A fascinating project for DASH. It’s not often you get to rebuild a 140 year old building to contemporary construction codes and standards. The care, skill and attention to detail from the team was amazing.
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Team Included:
CPR Engineers
LUCID Engineers
G-FORCE

07/02/2025

We are very pleased to announce that Andrew van Zanten is now an Associate at DASH Architects.

Andrew is central to the delivery of many of our projects, both major and minor, receiving nothing but praise from his colleges and clients alike. Congratulations.

19/12/2024

Continuing our 60th anniversary celebrations, we look back each month at a milestone project.

Decembers Reflection:
Lyndoch Recreation Park Redevelopment (Gather Round)

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Progress on this project has been nothing short of staggering. 12 months ago there was only a preliminary master plan for the site, and now we’re only a handful of weeks away from Practical Completion ready to host the 2025 AFL Gather Round. New facilities provide a community sporting hub including AFL standard oval, community recreation green / oval, netball courts, little athletics facilities, refurbished tennis courts, multi-sport clubrooms and function centre. Another landmark project in the Barossa for DASH Architects. An amazing effort from all involved.
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Team Included:
The Barossa Council
Department of the Premier and Cabinet
IEDM
Rider Levett Bucknall
Built
LUCID
WGA
Landskap

29/11/2024

Continuing our 60th anniversary celebrations, we look back each month at a milestone project.

November's Reflection
Year: 2024
Project: Fort Largs, Taperoo

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It was a great pleasure to see Deputy Premier Susan Close officially open the Fort Largs Taperoo project: the first time in the site’s 140 year history that it’s been open to the public. Regular viewers will know this project has been a long time coming. A credit to all involved. We have little doubt Fort Largs will be a landmark heritage project for the State, and a thriving community hub for the Lefevre Peninsula. We highly recommend getting down to the Fort over the break to grab some food and enjoy this highly unique offering.

Project Team included:
PEET Limited
Future Urban
Aspect Studios
Bestec
CPR Engineers
Chris Sale Consulting
Moto Projects
Trento Fuller
Harold & Kite
LD Total
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31/10/2024

Continuing our 60th anniversary celebrations, we look back each month at a milestone project.

October's Reflection
A dive into the archives

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A dive through our archives bring back so many memories and reminds us of the vast catalogue of work undertaken in the past 60 years. So many notable names on the drawings from past and present staff. So many projects: East End Markets, Government House, Gouger Street Upgrade, Beehive Corner, Pancake Parlours!… the list goes on. The smell of the drawings brings back memories of ammonia printers (the headaches!), light sensitive paper, and scratching out mistakes unit you’ve created a hole in your drawing. Let’s also not forget some artistry in their preparation.
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30/09/2024

Continuing our 60th anniversary celebrations, we look back each month at a mile stone project.

September’s Reflection
Libraries, and lots of them!

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For over 30 years DASH Architects has delivered dozens of library projects for local communities and schools. It’s fascinating to see how the role of libraries has changed over the years. 20 years ago some were saying they were no longer relevant, but they remain as important to communities today as they ever had. Project highlights have included libraries for Burnside Council, Unley, Goolwa, West Torrens, Holdfast Bay, Barossa, Burton and (of course) the Mortlock Library. We’ve also assisted with upgrades to libraries in Port Adelaide, Semaphore, Enfield, North Adelaide, Prospect, Clare, Adelaide University, City of Adelaide, Goodwood and multiple regional schools.
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27/09/2024

Proud to have been a part of the team on this one, a great outcome for such an iconic building along North Terrace.

05/09/2024

What a team to be a part of and a milestone point for the work at Lyndoch.

30/08/2024

Continuing our 60th anniversary celebrations, we look back each month at a mile stone project.

August’s Reflection
Year: 2003
Project: Adina Adelaide Treasury
Client: The TOGA Group of Companies

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A milestone project not only for DASH Architects, but heritage and its future management in South Australia generally. This grand old building sat mostly vacant for decades before options for its adaptive reuse were actioned. Working in association with SJB, these former Government offices were converted into a boutique hotel that celebrated the site's immense history. The project was not without controversy, with initial outcry over the use of this public building for private purposes. The outcome silenced the critics however, becoming an exemplar in the contemporary adaptive reuse of our heritage places. The project went on to be awarded an Award of Merit (RAIA SA Chapter), Edmund Wright Minister’s Award for Outstanding Contribution to Heritage, and a UNESCO Asia Pacific Heritage Award of Merit.
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01/08/2024

Progress at Lyndoch is coming along quickly, can’t wait to see the end result in 2025.

31/07/2024

Continuing our 60th anniversary celebrations, we look back each month at a mile stone project.

July’s Reflection
Year: 2008
Project: TransAdelaide Toilet, South Park Lands, Adelaide
Client: TransAdelaide

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Sometimes the memorable projects are small. In 2008 DASH was asked to design a toilet facility for tram divers in the rail corridor that dissects Adelaide’s south Park Lands. The project presented many challenges: The complexity of work within an electrified rail corridor; a prominent Park Lands setting; vulnerability to graffiti; access for maintenance; and the potentially archetypal design responses for facilities of this nature. As remains the case today, there was also considerable debate regarding the appropriateness of buildings in the Park Lands. The project's outcome demonstrates one of the design tenets of DASH: take potential problems and celebrate them as features.

A deliberately simple form, with the entrances concealed from view, was emblazoned with a ‘daisy fresh’ graphic that playfully questioned how architecture should respond to function and context. The daisies both whimsically reference while also belie the building's use. The daisies deliberately respond to their Park Lands setting in a cliched manner, while also being prominently out of scale and in contrast to their rail corridor setting. The daisies discourage graffiti, are very low maintenance, while also putting a smile on our face every time we drive past them some 16 years later. We hope they have the same effect on others.
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