There are few joys as simple yet supremely rewarding for an architect than to stand in a newly completed space they designed and see it used in exactly the way they intended. That validation washed over BKK principal Tim Black as he joined Katrina Sedgwick, director and CEO of the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) for television interviews about the Melbourne cultural institution’s $40 million renewal. Standing in the transformed Flinders Street atrium, dominated by the grand sweep of the new hero staircase in spotted gum and blackbutt, something caught his eye. “At a moment of pause, the film crew were occupying the living stair and urban lounge in precisely
