Architecture Australia, January 2000
Architecture AustraliaProvocative, informative and engaging discussion of the best built works and the issues and events that matter.
Provocative, informative and engaging discussion of the best built works and the issues and events that matter.
When I look at the on this page, I pick up important messages. The wording is telling us all that the National Convention, "Architecture 2000" …
2000The recently retired chairman of Hassell, one of Adelaides big three multi-national practices, wins this years top Institute honour for a lifetime of quiet …
How did Sydney’s original dwellers build? What has happened to their structures? And what should happen to the tracts of now-obsolete bungalows sprawling across the suburbs? Peter Myers provides historical evidence and the design strategy for a future metropolis.
A new realm of exploration for architects.
TIME-SHARING URBANISMAustralia’s largest polis is not Sydney but a geographical network of settlements scattered across the central continent – connected not by shared streets …
After a decade-long war with neighbours, the Bathers Pavilion at Sydney’s Balmoral Beach has reopened to general acclaim for a heritage-sensitive, yet contemporary, renovation.
Sydney’s signature-designer housing boom spreads to its northern peninsula with a sold-out, up-market, oceanfront development exploiting Alex Popov’s style and name.
Right North facade with typical Vista and Metropolis apartments below and Atlas penthouses, looking up from LaTrobe Street.Rocketing into Melbournes stratosphere, Nondas latest apartment tower …
Obvious marine analogies are not reliable for understanding the subtleties of Greg Burgesss organic family holiday compound of living pods and terraces on Victorias Mornington …
Left North-west elevation looking along the sites internal street, with an interview room projecting in the foreground and the rock escarpment and wave basin in …
Teams of artists and architects recently installed a suite of sculptural works at the RAIAs Brisbane headquarters. John Macarthur reports on the Tekhné exhibition curated …
From top Kirketon Hotel at Potts Point, Sydney; Pier One Parkroyal at Walsh Bay, Sydney; Hotel Lindrum, South Melbourne; Prince Hotel, St Kilda; Park Hyatt, …
Right Carey Lyons Seppelt Award installation at the MCA, Sydney; a corner veneered with brick-sized postcards advertising his brotherly practice Lyons, to form an image …
SYDNEY: NIDA The National Institute for Dramatic Art at Kensington, Sydney, is being redeveloped by Hassell with Peter Armstrong to provide a stronger street address …
Noting new books at Architext OLYMPIC ARCHITECTURE: BUILDING SYDNEY 2000Philip Drew, Hardie Grant , $60.Edited by Patrick Bingham-Hall, The Watermark Press, $85 (standard), $150 (boxed).Certainly …
What are they feeding students at the University of Tasmania? Some remarkable stimulus is annually powering them to international success in the Graphisoft Prize for computer visuals of architectural scenes from books or songs. Michael Ostwald reports on this phenomenon.
Designs for a new type – the footbridge/billboard – have won the first RAIA-NSW Government urban ideas competition for young Sydney practices. Chris Procter reviews the winning proposals.