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Dec 2024
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Episode 230: Jimmy Walker from JCB Archi...

ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN
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T3 Collingwood won the Commercial Architecture – Large category and the Best of the Best category at the recently-held Sustainability Awards, that were hosted in Sydney by Architecture and Design.

 According to the architects behind this project, T3 Collingwood is the firm’s first project in Asia Pacific to adopt the T3 strategy - Timber, Transit and Technology.

Senior Associate at Jackson Clements Burrows Architects Jimmy Walker has worked in leading design practices in both Melbourne and Darwin, across multi-residential, healthcare, education, residential, social housing, infrastructure, tropical design and remote community work. 

Jimmy also led JCB’s T3 Collingwood project, a 15-level mixed-use office tower and Victoria's tallest mass timber building.

So to take us through this amazing design and the Sustainability Awards win, we  spoke with Jimmy Walker.


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