Architecture Australia, July 1997
Architecture AustraliaProvocative, informative and engaging discussion of the best built works and the issues and events that matter.
Comment
Foreword
Architecture is receiving more media coverage of late. Spurned on by controversies such as the East Circular Quay project, or massive infrastructure developments such as …
Controls: Do They Work?
Controls: Do They Work?As public places increasingly are built by private enterprises, governments arestruggling to balancecorporate profits and public benefitsvia design controls drenched incontroversy. Philip …
Features
Ark
In Melbourne’s Richmond, Nonda Katsalidis racks up another success in designingfeasible, fashionable apartments stacked inside iconoclastic containers. top Abinger Street facade by night. above Living …
Warp
Out beyond Hoddle’s grid, an alien object has landed in suburban Melbourne. Composed of skewed arcs, this new residence by Ivan Rijavec reveals his latest …
Foreign Languages
Standing out in a city of generally conservative architecture, the new house designed by Adelaide’s Nick Tridente brings and state-of-the-art computer-electrics to an up-market subdivision …
Ruthless Elegance
Years before its completion, the weekend bunker of DCM’s Barrie Marshall was in-your-face around the world–but the incomplete pictorials left much for speculation.Catch up here …
Melbourne Casino
Larger than Australia’s Parliament House, Melbourne’s Crown Casino recasts the dynamics of Southbank and the city.Principal architects are Bates Smart, Perrot Lyon, Mathieson and Daryl …
Letters
Dishwasher PornographyI wish to formally express my deepest concerns with respect to an advertisement for ASKO published inside the front covers of your January/February and …
Arabian Rights
Using black veils tribuna-style balconies a courtyard and a roof terrace reminiscent of harems, Lawrence Nield & Partners have invested the Sydney City Council’s new Ultimo Community Centre with positive doses of Islamic fundamentalism.
Radar
Interiors
A lux distribution diagram inspired Bolles-Wilson’s design of a new lighting showroom in Germany. Davina Jackson describes the concept of ‘built light’.Cherrywood walls (one including …
Projects
Australian architectural concepts on the drawing boards, under construction or recently built.Adelaide: Mount Lofty Tourist Centre Because it offers exceptional views of Adelaide’s hills and …
Headlines
Australia’s states of architecture at a glanceNationalWith Trade Practices Act penalties of up to $10 million for corporations and $500,000 for individuals now applying to …
Review
above Hans Scharoun’s 1929 (white period) apartments built in Breslau (Germany) and Wroclaw (Poland)Hans Scharoun: An Alternative TraditionLecture by Adrian Iredale at the Red Studio, …