McBride Charles Ryan is a practice that evolved from a studio-base formed by architectural graduates in Melbourne in the early 1990s. The firm is located in Melbourne, Australia and its owners are Robert McBride and Debbie Ryan. Early works were primarily small residential commissions. McBride Charles Ryan still maintains an interest in the architectural possibilities of the private home but the office has gone on to work on significant institutional and large commercial projects. Buildings by McBride Charles Ryan have received extensive publication in the nation’s major architectural journals and the directors are regularly invited by the profession to lecture locally and internationally on subjects ranging from their own work to housing policy and urban sustainability. The firm’s largest executed project to date, the QV2 apartment complex, was exhibited in 2006 at the Venice Architectural Biennale. With awards across all major architectural categories, McBride Charles Ryan has demonstrated an uncanny versatility in providing excellent architecture in many different and varied fields. The work is both cerebral and tactile. It responds to local concerns and yet the experimental nature of the work and the boldness of the form & expression have also attracted a growing international audience. In 2005 McBride Charles Ryan won the state of Victoria’s top architectural prize, “The Victorian Medal” with a suburban educational facility—Templestowe Park Primary School. While at the World Architecture Festival 2009 the Klein Bottle House won “World’s Best House”.