Architecture Australia, March 1999
Architecture AustraliaProvocative, informative and engaging discussion of the best built works and the issues and events that matter.
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Foreword
The changing social and economic circumstances within which we must practice now constantly question the ethical codes we use to guide our professional conduct. With …
Danish Architecture Beyond Utzon
New WavesAustralian perceptions of modern Danish architecture have been dominated by three eminences: Jørn Utzon, Henning Larsen and Arne Jacobsen. The first two are still …
Letters
Harbour Bridge Not DecoIt interests me how a recurring myth keeps being repeated in the press so often that it becomes a truth: that the …
Features
Authority & Romance
Another kinked roof distinguishes Stutchbury & Pape’s latest shed: a family retreat poetically nestled into a sloping niche beneath the north-west escarpment of NSW’s Kangaroo …
The Sanctuary
On the eve of his return to Adelaide, Troppo’s Phil Harris reveals the office’s latest house in Darwin; a contemporary and water-enhanced version of Bali’s …
At the Summit
A Sydney dining icon—revolving around the city skyline and infused with sixties Seidler style—reopens as a more glamorous interpretation of that decade, designed by Burley …
Parasite
Architecture-trained sculptor Richard Goodwin delivers a structurally erratic shelter to the roof garden of a landmark Art Deco hotel in North Sydney.
Contoursions
A multi-purpose TAFE building with a ground-hugging cross (reminiscent of a survey grid), folded and crumpled like a rural landscape.
Wall Games
After last year’s Robin Boyd win, Durbach Block deliver another lesson in freestyle radial geometry, perspective manipulation and the spatial potential of the sweeping wall.
Radar
Youth
The 40 UP exhibition, launched in Sydney in February, has identified a ‘next generation’ of independent architects and designers with notable built works. Curator Davina …
Landscape
The draft concept for Melbourne’s new Riverside Park, over the railyards beside Federation Square, is not a bad start, suggests James Weirick.The transformation of Melbourne …
Projects
CHINA: JIANGBEI NEW TOWNThe Australian Pacific Design Group, a multi-discipline team including architects Noel Robinson (Brisbane) and SJPH (Sydney) have been planning the new town …
Academia
Updates on recent action around Australia’s schools of architecture.Internationally honoured ‘Ballroom for the Devil’ Archigraph concept by UTasmania students Andrew Maynard and Stephen Mees.ADELAIDE The …
Headlines
Scanning the nation for architectural news and noteworthy nuances.