Designing landmark cultural buildings from his London studio, architect Kevin Carmody casts his mind back to structures that affected his formative years growing up in Canberra.

A riverside museum in England’s Lake District transposes the outside-inside, al fresco approach of Australian architecture, he says, “to create shelter which is defined but not enclosed”. A monumental book archive in the geographic centre of England is turning a 1940s structure into a state-of-the art robotic facility (squint your eyes, and it’s not dissimilar to the National Library of Australia nestled on the banks of Lake Burley Griffin).