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    Architect Bark Design Architects

    Jul 02, 2018 5 minutes
    Review by Peter Skinner

    Curra Community Hall is a good news story in country Australia, a regional council’s investment in social infrastructure for a new and growing rural residential community of two thousand people. The hall, designed by Lindy Atkin and Stephen Guthrie of Bark Design Architects for Gympie Regional Council, is an equally glowing achievement, a demonstration of the architects’ ability to extract beauty and meaning from the tightest of budgets.

    There are thirty-three community halls in the small rural townships that surround Gympie. In my distant youth I frequented a few of them for the Saturday night 60/40 dance – 60 percent old-time ballroom dancing, 40 percent youthful rock-and-roll. The halls were generally elevated, gable-roofed structures with an entry porch at one end, a stage at the

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