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Edmund Barton Building
The Edmund Barton Building (known originally as the Trade Group Offices) is a large Canberra office building positioned prominently on the Parliamentary Triangle in the suburb of Barton, Australian Capital Territory. It was designed by the major Australian architect Harry Seidler. It is named after Sir Edmund Barton, first Prime Minister of Australia and one of the founding judges of the High Court of Australia.
==Design, construction and ownership==
The building was designed and built for the Commonwealth government over the period 1970 to 1974. The building is of a precast, prestressed concrete construction. Its elements are radically simple: the entire structure was created using repeating patterns of just three different components: 26 metre-long facade beams, 16 metre-long floor beams or 'planks', and 1.5 metre column elements. It contains a total of 50 000 square metres of office space in seven wings, enclosing two courtyards.〔Harry Seidler & Associates, (Trade Group Offices ), retrieved January 2009.〕 The building has undergone various subsequent modifications, notably including the retrofitting of cladding beneath the exposed first floor floor planks which, while improving thermal performance, has been criticised for obscuring the original design of the building.
In 1999, as part of a privatisation of Commonwealth assets, the building was sold to the Industry Superannuation Property Trust Pty Ltd,〔The Hon. John Fahey, '(Preferred tenderers for Commonwealth Buildings )', ''Media Release'', 13 January 1999.〕 which almost immediately on-sold the site to Advance Property Fund (a subsidiary of Stockland, one of Australia's largest property groups) for A$70 million.〔Stockland, (Office properties in the ACT ), retrieved January 2009.〕〔Thomson Financial Mergers & Acquisitions, ''(Advance Property Fund acquires Edmund Barton Building from ISPT Pty Ltd )'' (summary), May 1999, retrieved January 2009.〕 In December 2008 was sold to Real IS AG for A$186 million.〔Thomson Financial Mergers & Acquisitions, ''(Realis AG acquires Edmund Barton Building from Advance Property Fund )'' (summary), December 2008, retrieved January 2009.〕
The building was the subject of a major refurbishment in 2007–2009 estimated to cost $115 million, including increased security measures around the building perimeter (owing to the client needs of the new tenant, the Australian Federal Police), and reinvigoration of the courtyard areas.〔Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works, Fit-out for the Australian Federal Police of the Edmund Barton Building, Barton, Australian Capital Territory, ''Committee Hansard'', (19 September 2008 ), retrieved January 2009〕〔Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works, ''(Report 9 of 2008 )'', retrieved January 2009〕 Planning for the refurbishment was undertaken by HBO+EMTB.〔HBO+EMTB, (Edmund Barton Building, Canberra ), retrieved January 2009.〕 The refurbishment caused some concern about the preservation of heritage values of the building,〔Mark Davis, '(Keelty Towers, starring Harry Seidler's widow )', ''Sydney Morning Herald'', 20 September 2008, retrieved January 2009.〕〔Marika Dobbin, 'Millions being spent on terrorist protection', ''Canberra Times'', 9 October 2007, p.5.〕 and about loss of public access to central open spaces and art works.〔Canberra House, '(Modifications proposed to Harry Seidler’s Edmund Barton building )', 21 September 2008, retrieved January 2009.〕
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