Celebrating the Beauty of the Karratha Region
Red Earth Arts Precinct
The City of Karratha’s vision was to provide an iconic and unique arts and cultural precinct, for local and regional communities.
The result is much more than the state-of-the-art 450 seat performing arts theatre. The facility also features a modern library, foyers displaying local Pilbara artists, roof top function space and cinema, and a lawned amphitheater providing a venue for informal performances. As a focus for the region’s arts, the building needed to be a work of art in itself.
In a ‘gateway’ location in the centre of town, the building’s striking form echoes the contours, colours and materials of the adjacent mountain topography. Like the unique Pilbara landscape, the choice of materials used in the interior and exterior surfaces, create textures and hues that change throughout the day and seasons.
The building’s form provides an iconic landmark to the City Centre, that celebrates both the arts and beauty of the region, while setting a new benchmark for quality, contemporary architecture in Karratha. The design was based on an organic form to wrap around the functional requirements of a performing arts theatre and library hall.
The unique metallic cladding chosen reflects the unique light and broken rock formations of the stunning historical Burrup Peninsular. The internal form of the building reflects the structural integrity, not to dissimilar to the unique caves in the area.
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