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Foreword
It is not necessary to know anything about architecture to experience its pleasures. We all experience architecture and the built environment, and we all comment …
AS Hook Address
Earlier this year, Roy McCowan Simpson was awarded the profession’s highest honour - the RAIA Gold Medal for lifetime achievements in architecture. Yet he died …
Letters/Weldon
Interior Design: In or Out?I would like to thank the reviewer of the Interior Design: In or Out? forum (AA July/August 97) for the recognition …
Federation Square: A Future About Shatters
Lab Architectural Studio Inspection of the 177 entries to the Federation Square competition, on display at 230 Collins Street, Melbourne, from September 20 to October …
Features
RAIA National Architecture Awards
. If there is a theme in this year’s RAIA awards, it is a spirit of creative renewal and repair often overlooked by object-seduced juries …
Walter Burley Griffith Award for Urban Design
top Aerial view of the park looking south. above Steel inlay in existing plaza boardwalk. Stage 2 of Pyrmont Bay Park, a new landscape for …
Lachlan Macquarie Award for Conservation
Rose Bay Cottage is the oldest surviving house on the Cooper estate known as Woollahra, NSW. It was conceived by John Verge in 1834 as …
Commercial Award
Beside the Yarra River at Richmond, Victoria, a derelict, historic power station—a collection of buildings dating from 1878— has been developed as the headquarters of …
International Award
Genesis is a Singapore development which replaces four shophouses —a four-storey row of colonnaded terraces with workplaces on the ground floor—to take advantage of an …
Interiors Award
top General office from entry. above Meeting room.New offices for a firm of management consultants have been provided by architects Grose Bradley on the upper …
Presidents Award for Recycled Buildings
top Courtyard, looking north-east. above Internal street, looking south.The last Dalgety woolstores in Geelong, Victoria, have been revitalised by architects McGlashan Everist to serve as …
Commendation: Public Buildings
On a bush campus scattered with pavilions by distinguished architects, the University of Newcastle’s Faculty of Architecture has built a new tin shed to provide …
Commendation: Housing
This courtyard residence, on the crest of a hill overlooking the beaches of Merimbula, NSW, was produced as a holiday home for Melbourne clients of …
Commendation: Housing
top North facade with entry and garage served by bridges. above East facade of south (lower) wing. On a steep and narrow site in the …
Commendation: Interiors
A small factory in Melbourne’s Richmond has been recycled into two levels of offices for the architect John Wardle. This refurbishment provides a reception area, …
Commendation: Recycled Buildings
top Existing tower and ground floor additions. above Guest suite. Within a tight (14 month) schedule, a declining Perth office block has been transformed by …
Robin Boyd Award for Housing
Robin Boyd Award for Housing – Snelling House by Alexander Tzannes
Commendation: Commercial Environment Citation
St Vincents Aged Care Centre
Access Citation
Treetop Walk by Donaldson & Warn
Sir Zelman Cowen Award for Public Buildings
Sunshine Coast Library by John Mainwaring & Lawrence Nield
Radar
Restaurant
Neo Metro combine Asian and industrial influences at Tho Tho, a Vietnamese restaurant in Melbourne’s Richmond. Report by Norman Day.If ever the design of a …
Projects
Australian concepts on the drawing boards, under construction or recently built.Auckland: Skytower New Zealand is boasting the tallest structure in the southern hemisphere: the 328 …
Books
Four notable exhibition catalogues and a thumping anthology of essays, noted by Davina Jackson.Architecture in Transition: The Sulman Award 1932-1996By Andrew Metcalf, published by the …
Headlines
National The RAIA has released a new ‘plain English’ building contract, CIC-1, for national use and is lobbying for an all-states Architects Act • To …
Review
Harbourings: Remaking Sydney’s Industrial Landscape Perspecta 1997 exhibition highlighting the past, present condition and potential of obsolete industrial sites beside Sydney Harbour, at the Museum …
