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Michael Rayner (architect)
Michael Anthony Rayner is an Australian architect and urban designer. He was a director of Cox Rayner Architects (now Cox Architecture) for 33 years before commencing a new practice, Blight Rayner Architecture, in 2016. He has led the designs of many major Australian public buildings. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Queensland and a Life Fellow and Past President of the Australian Institute of Architects in Queensland. He was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in 2011.
Michael Anthony Rayner was born in Sydney. He grew up in a street adjoining the houses of such noted architects as Bryce Mortlock, Peter Keys, and John Fisher. From observing their work as a child, Rayner determined early on to become an architect.[citation needed]
Rayner attended North Sydney Boys High School and undertook his architecture studies at the University of New South Wales, graduating with first class honours in 1980 and winning the 1980 Thesis Medal in Architecture.
He was awarded the NSW Architects Registration Board's Byera Hadley Travelling Scholarship in 1989, studying urban waterfront renewal.[where?]
After graduating, Rayner joined Philip Cox and Partners, working closely with Cox for the next ten years and designing such noted public buildings as the Australian National Maritime Museum and the Sydney Exhibition Centre (now demolished) in Darling Harbour.
Rayner moved to Brisbane in 1990 and established Cox Rayner Architects. He designs using the overarching ethos of structure, craft, art and nature as guidelines for all projects, large or small.
Rayner left the Cox practice in 2016 to establish Blight Rayner Architecture, as a smaller firm where he could devote more time to thinking about the future of architecture and of cities, and to hands-on designing of buildings. In 2019, the firm won the international competition to design the New Performing Arts Venue at Brisbane's South Bank and subsequently the National Rugby Training Centre at Ballymore.
Although primarily an architect, Rayner worked on the Brisbane CBD Planning Strategy in 1995, and subsequently prepared the master plan for Newstead-Teneriffe (1996), Brisbane's largest urban waterfront redevelopment.
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Michael Rayner (architect)
Michael Anthony Rayner is an Australian architect and urban designer. He was a director of Cox Rayner Architects (now Cox Architecture) for 33 years before commencing a new practice, Blight Rayner Architecture, in 2016. He has led the designs of many major Australian public buildings. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Queensland and a Life Fellow and Past President of the Australian Institute of Architects in Queensland. He was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in 2011.
Michael Anthony Rayner was born in Sydney. He grew up in a street adjoining the houses of such noted architects as Bryce Mortlock, Peter Keys, and John Fisher. From observing their work as a child, Rayner determined early on to become an architect.[citation needed]
Rayner attended North Sydney Boys High School and undertook his architecture studies at the University of New South Wales, graduating with first class honours in 1980 and winning the 1980 Thesis Medal in Architecture.
He was awarded the NSW Architects Registration Board's Byera Hadley Travelling Scholarship in 1989, studying urban waterfront renewal.[where?]
After graduating, Rayner joined Philip Cox and Partners, working closely with Cox for the next ten years and designing such noted public buildings as the Australian National Maritime Museum and the Sydney Exhibition Centre (now demolished) in Darling Harbour.
Rayner moved to Brisbane in 1990 and established Cox Rayner Architects. He designs using the overarching ethos of structure, craft, art and nature as guidelines for all projects, large or small.
Rayner left the Cox practice in 2016 to establish Blight Rayner Architecture, as a smaller firm where he could devote more time to thinking about the future of architecture and of cities, and to hands-on designing of buildings. In 2019, the firm won the international competition to design the New Performing Arts Venue at Brisbane's South Bank and subsequently the National Rugby Training Centre at Ballymore.
Although primarily an architect, Rayner worked on the Brisbane CBD Planning Strategy in 1995, and subsequently prepared the master plan for Newstead-Teneriffe (1996), Brisbane's largest urban waterfront redevelopment.