Architecture Australia, September 2000
Architecture AustraliaProvocative, informative and engaging discussion of the best built works and the issues and events that matter.
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Letters and Fixes
AUSTRALIA 200016–19 October, ArmidalePractice Management & Development: two specialised programs for architects, engineers and surveyors. Ph: 02 6771 4449. Fax: 02 6772 4621. Email: focus@fmrcbusdev.com.au …
Diversity and Collaboration
THE A.S. HOOK ADDRESS BY JOHN MORPHETT, 2000 RAIA GOLD MEDALLISTAt this stage of my life, looking back on nearly 50 years of involvement in …
Foreword
As the year progresses, several issues have made their way to the surface. In any year, there will be topical issues that appear relatively suddenly, …
Features
Intricate Structures
The changing fortunes of Brisbane’s Queen Street - from penal past to prime address. The city has a revitalised heart.Text by Michael Keniger. Photography by …
Sydney Civility
Mannered sophistication meets modernity in Alexander Tzannes’s elegant development of the urban townhouse typology.Text by Philip Goad. Photography by Bart Maiorana. The spectacular setting overlooking …
Public Art in the Olympic City
Public Art in the Olympic CitySydney’s new public art programs make edgy, contemporary art part of the public realm.Text by Susan Best. Top Walama Forecourt …
Tennis in the Round
A dramatic end to the Olympic Boulevard, Bligh Voller Nield’s Sydney International Tennis Centre provides an intimate, open environment with excellent sightlines.Text by Ian Perlman. …
Identity and the Olympics
Identity andAbove left Stadium Australia by Bligh Lobb Sports Architecture, a joint venture between Bligh Voller Nield and Lobb Partnership. Above right Olympic Park Railway …
Free Span
The only Olympic building to result from a design competition, Ryder Associates’ elegant and structurally innovative velodrome took nine years to develop from winning scheme to realised building.
Art & Life
Christopher de Campo’s inventive brief of an art gallery and living spaces for character-filled clients has led to an accomplished ensemble of theatrical spaces.
Radar
Books
Noting new books at Architext 10 x 10Vivian Constantinopoulos, Commissioning Editor. Phaidon, $95.10 critics, 100 architects, 100 references, 10 readings - this is a heavy …
Heritage
Photography by Jeff Turnbull, left and below, and Peter Freeman, below right.A carpark will soon replace the Cameron Offices at Belconnen. Despite continuing efforts to …
Biennale
Right and below Lyon’s City of Fiction, Venice After an absence in 1996, Australia returns to the Venice with the popular, yet controversial, City of …
RAIA State Awards
The final instalment of the RAIA state awards, leading to the nationals in Canberra on 17th November.In this issue we feature the RAIA awards made …
Headlines
Scanning the nation for architectural news and noteworthy nuances.
Urbanity
The competition for a Public Place by the Lake in Canberra produced much high calibre work. Inventive reinterpretations and allusive qualities characterised many submissions, according to Competition Registrar Stephen Frith.