By Jessica Micallef
The Sunbury Library at the Hume Global Learning Centre Sunbury is in the running for a national design award.
The library is one of 33 sites across the country shortlisted for the 2021 Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) Library Design Awards.
The awards are presented every two years and highlight the achievements of Australia’s leading architects, designers and library leaders and celebrate design excellence in new and refurbished libraries.
Hume mayor Joseph Haweil said the council was proud that the Sunbury Library had been shortlisted.
“The Hume Global Learning Centre Sunbury, where the library is located, is one of the largest projects undertake in Hume council’s history,” he said.
“Our growing community needed a space that would meet their changing needs and we aimed to deliver one that would honour the past, value the present and imagine the future.”
ALIA chief executive Sue McKerracher said the library, coupled with the dynamic architectural design, was well deserving of its place in the shortlist.
The Hume Global Learning Centre Sunbury opened on December 16, 2019 and is the third facility in Hume council’s suite of global learning centres.
The Sunbury centre cost $21.5 million to build, with the council contributing $18.5 million towards to the project for the purchase of land, building design and construction and a new carpark.
The state government contributed $3 million through it’s Growing Suburbs Fund.
The winning libraries will be announced at the Changing Spaces Library Design Conference as part of the Asia-Pacific Architecture Forum virtual event on March 18.
