{"id":41982,"date":"2025-08-04T04:14:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T04:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/41982\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T04:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T04:14:11","slug":"matraville-youth-and-cultural-hall-sam-crawford-architects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/41982\/","title":{"rendered":"Matraville Youth and Cultural Hall \/ Sam Crawford Architects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"js-image-size__link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/1032715\/matraville-youth-and-cultural-hall-sam-crawford-architects\/688cac38cb12386035f79794-matraville-youth-and-cultural-hall-sam-crawford-architects-photo\" rel=\"attachment nofollow noopener\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 100%;\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Matraville Youth and Cultural Hall \/ Sam Crawford Architects - Exterior Photography, Facade, Concrete\" data-nr-picture-id=\"688cac38cb12386035f79794\" fetchpriority=\"high\" height=\"429\" itemprop=\"image\" loading=\"eager\" longdesc=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/1032715\/matraville-youth-and-cultural-hall-sam-crawford-architects\/688cac38cb12386035f79794-matraville-youth-and-cultural-hall-sam-crawford-architects-photo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/matraville-youth-and-cultural-hall-sam-crawford-architects_16.jpg\" style=\"min-height: var(--featured-height, auto); aspect-ratio: auto 640 \/ 429\" width=\"640\"\/><\/a>\u00a9 Brett Boardman<\/p>\n<p class=\"thumbs afd-desktop-e clearfix\"><a class=\"thumbs__link\" data-nr-picture-id=\"688cab744460050001e0d223\" href=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/1032715\/matraville-youth-and-cultural-hall-sam-crawford-architects\/688cab744460050001e0d223-matraville-youth-and-cultural-hall-sam-crawford-architects-photo\" rel=\"attachment nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Matraville Youth and Cultural Hall \/ Sam Crawford Architects - 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A grove of mature native trees determined the plan of a new community hall in Sydney&#8217;s eastern suburbs. The inverted L-shaped layout allowed the trees to be retained, with a much-loved blackbutt tree informing the geometry of the entry sequence.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1752854830_156_loader-blue.gif\" alt=\"Content Loader\" style=\"width: 40px; margin: 24px;\"\/><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a9 Brett Boardman + 12 Share Share Facebook Twitter Mail Pinterest Whatsapp Or https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/1032715\/matraville-youth-and-cultural-hall-sam-crawford-architects Area Area of this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[463,449,458,459,64,63,1557,4052,460,134,36921],"class_list":["post-41982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-architecture","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cultural-architecture","tag-cultural-center","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-matraville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}