Architecture Australia, September 1998
Architecture AustraliaProvocative, informative and engaging discussion of the best built works and the issues and events that matter.
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Foreword
Architecture is addictive. Ask anyone who experiences the high of going beyond the expected and discovering new answers, with new opportunities. Pushed beyond your …
Melbourne Docklands
Negotiating Melbourne’s DocklandsTesting ‘non-prescriptive’ systems of major development procurement, the Authority is juggling diverse and ambitious schemes to extend the city west to the …
Letters
Controlling the likely future of Walsh Bay is an invisible network… scarily comprising seemingly reasonable people –;Feiko Bouman, Sydney SYDNEY’S ROTATING CARTEL This is not …
Features
Straight Arrow
With forests of electricity pylons and a twisted blade roof, Stutchbury & Pape establish a powerful landscape and architecture presence for the Sydney Olympics Archery …
Street Credentials
Recognising the student-attracting value of a spunky mainstreet cultural presence, the University of Melbourne has called in Nonda Katsalidis to compose a new image for …
The Garden Shed
Brisbane’s Rex Addison returns to his childhood home to build a personal studio with plain materials and exhilarating geometries: revealing significant creative advances. Photography Patrick …
Paradise Limited
Paradise LimitedDespite difficulties with the planning envelope and program, Burley Katon Halliday deliver a glamorous six-pack apartment block to a prime site on Sydney’s waterfront. …
Air and Rhythm
Air and Rhythm Brisbane architects Brit Andresen and Peter O’Gorman string three pavilions along a lush suburban gully to craft a breezy, battened house which …
Weaving Around
Circular buildings and meandering paths define spaces added to Sydney’s Tranby Aboriginal Centre by Julie Cracknell and Peter Lonergan with the NSW government’s Merrima design unit.
Radar
Books
BEYOND ARCHITECTURE: MARION MAHONY AND WALTER BURLEY GRIFFIN: AMERICA AUSTRALIA INDIAEdited by Anne Watson, Powerhouse Publishing, $40. When forces of darkness destroyed the Griffins’ Pyrmont …
State Awards
RAIA results, leading up to the National announcements at the Cairns Convention on October 3.
Headlines
Scanning the nation for architectural news and noteworthy nuances. AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY Activist Jack Kershaw is leading a community group to move theNational Museum away from Acton Peninsula, …