Denton Corker Marshall is an architecture practice founded in Melbourne, Australia, in 1972 by John Denton, Bill Corker and Barrie Marshall. Melbourne remains its design base, with further offices in London, Manchester and Jakarta, and it has worked on more than 510 projects in 37 countries. Its Australian work has been described as modernist, minimalist, sculptural and heroic, and "blades" and sticks became its hallmarks.
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In Melbourne, the Melbourne Exhibition Centre ('Jeff's Shed') (1996), nicknamed after the state premier Jeff Kennett, is a long shed entered under one of the practice's blades, and the Melbourne Museum (2000) in the Carlton Gardens is led by two long, high, sloping canopies that guide visitors in. In Sydney the practice designed Governor Phillip Tower (1993) and the Museum of Sydney (1995). The Manchester Civil Justice Centre (2007) in England, nicknamed the "filing cabinet" for the floors cantilevered at its ends, carries a suspended glass wall 60 by 60 metres. Denton Corker Marshall's buildings are studied for bold structure in large public buildings.
