cv : norman day + associates

Norman Day worked with the late Robin Boyd and Professor Frederick Romberg before starting his own practice in 1971, now with offices located in Melbourne, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and Dili.

He is an Adjunct Professor of Architecture at the University of RMIT   which has also awarded him an honorary Doctorate of Architecture.

He is architecture critic for 'The Age' (Melbourne) and the Australian Broadcasting Commission (Radio and TV), + previously for the Sydney Morning Herald' and 'The Sunday Age' (Melbourne). He is author of many books on architecture, including: 'Federation Square', (Hardie Grant Books, 2003, 'Notes From The Laboratory' (in prep.), 'Heroic Melbourne - Architecture of the 1950's' (RMIT,1995) and,   'Fin de Siecle? - and the twenty-first century', part author   (RMIT, 1992) and 'Modern Houses: Melbourne' ( Zouch), 1976 .

Buildings designed have received seven Royal Australian Institute of Architects Awards, the 1988 Lustig + Moar - RAIA Architecture Prize, BELLE magazine "House of the Year" and Housing Industry of Australia (2000-2001) House of the Year award (Best Use of Steel), the MBA award for Excellence in Building (2003-2004), and the Australian Chamber of Commerce Vietnam Foster's Vietnam Ltd Buisiness Innovation Award (2005).

Recent projects in Australia include the International Headquarters for the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (Melbourne), Mowbray College (Melton), Port Phillip House multi-storey mixed use apartment/office development (Port Melbourne) and the Embassy for Timor Leste (Canberra).

Recent projects in Timor Leste include the Xanana Gusmao Reading Room+Library (Dili), consulting on the reconstruction of Timor Leste (East Timor) - including schemes for empowerment training - and the Hotel dom Aleixo (Dili).

Recent projects in Vietnam include the RMIT International University Vietnam South Saigon Campus (Ho Chi Minh City), Thai Nguyen University LRC and Cantho LRC.

Recent design submissions have been made for   a design proposal for the new Assembly and Ba Dinh Hall (Hanoi), an urban design competition for Thu Thiem district (HCMC), Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (Melbourne), MOMA at Heide, West Kowloon Redevelopment (Hong Kong) and National Trade Union Headquarters (Singapore.)