{"id":453,"date":"2019-04-16T15:35:14","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T05:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/nt-awards\/?page_id=453"},"modified":"2019-04-17T15:22:37","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T05:22:37","slug":"megafauna-central","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/nt-awards\/megafauna-central\/","title":{"rendered":"Megafauna Central"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Megafauna Central is a new Alice Springs museum containing and displaying Central Australia\u2019s extensive Alcoota fossil collection, including rare flightless birds and ancient thylacines from the Miocene period.<\/p>

The adaptive reuse of an old bank building has meant a lower environmental impact than a new build, and helps to reactivate a quieter part of the CBD.<\/p>

Megafauna Central is a dynamic new facility combining a \u2018front of house\u2019 public exhibition and events space together with a \u2018back of house\u2019 research and administrative area. A viewing window from the exhibition space into the fossil workshop offers the public a glimpse into the inner workings of fossil cleaning and preservation.<\/p>

Megafauna Central offers a palate of mixed materials and considered details, and is an example of interior architecture that brings together tourism, education, research, science, public amenity and community benefit into a unique visitor experience.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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