Architecture Australia, November 2001
Architecture AustraliaProvocative, informative and engaging discussion of the best built works and the issues and events that matter.
Comment
Obituary
SIR JOHN OVERALL Peter Ward remembers the achievements of Sir John Overall, the first commissioner of the National Capital architect from 1975 to 1983 and …
Letters and Fixes
PROPOSED NAME CHANGEThe already instigated “poll” regarding the proposed name change to the RAIA is as unsatisfactory as previous methods adopted to achieve this dubious …
Margaret River’s Architecture of Terroir
Questioning prevailing aesthetic sensibilities, Donaldson + Warn’s wine facility for Palandri has been the subject of significant controversy. Christopher Vernon investigates the consequences of the investment in the picturesque.
Shelley Penn at the DPWS
Shelley Penn recently finished her tenure as design director at the NSW Government Architect’s Design Directorate. Gerard Reinmuth looks at the strategies and structures she developed, while Ben Hewett offers a personal account of the process.
Foreword
Global:local
Features
Commendation for Public Buildings
Jury VerdictThis project refocuses a previously unremarkable campus, giving it two lowscale buildings of great quality and presence.Positioned at an entry to the Newnham campus, …
Special Jury Award
Archer house
Award for Commercial Buildings
Ansett Sydney domestic terminal redevelopment
Special Jury Award
Jenkins/Robson House, Sydney
Commendation for Heritage
Jury VerdictThe architects have been assiduous in their progressive restoration of this major heritage item, a nineteenth century fort. The fort is situated in the …
Commendation for Commercial Buildings
Jury VerdictThis mixed-use project sits on an intersection in what the Jury saw as a depressing fragment of the tough industrial landscape of inner-city Richmond. …
Commendation for Urban Design
Jury VerdictThis modest project resolves the adaptive re-use of a heritage structure through the architectural tactic of built form as urban furniture. The obsolete toilet …
Commendation for Residential Buildings
Jury VerdictThe Johnson – Kroon House is made for its place in the sun. A set of three steel framed timber clad pavilions are placed …
Commendation for Residential Buildings
Jury VerdictThe success of this small house lies in the way in which an existing holiday cottage has been sandwiched between two independently supported pavilions. …
Commendation for Public Buildings
Jury VerdictThe Visitor Centre in Karijini National Park in the Pilbara is set in one of Australia’s most extraordinary landscapes. This is iron ore country, …
Colorbond Award for the Use of Steel
Jury VerdictThis is a remarkably good building. The Jury has made this clear by awarding it both the Colorbond Steel Award and a Commendation for …
Award for Sustainable Architecture
Jury VerdictThis award recognises buildings that acknowledge all opportunities to harvest, use, re-use or recycle on-site resources during their life. The award also honours buildings …
Award for Interior Architecture
Jury VerdictThe Mansion Hotel was, in an earlier life, the setting for Fred Schepisi’s film The Devil’s Playground. In this Arcadian setting it is tempting …
Lachlan Macquarie Award for Heritage
Jury VerdictThe Mansion Hotel was once a seminary built adjacent to an historic mansion set in a vast heritage-listed parkland. Now it is one of …
Robin Boyd Award for Residential Buildings
Jury VerdictThe D House is a profound work, but it has been delivered within a modest budgetary framework. In addition to its inherent architectural strength, …
Walter Burley Griffin Award for Urban Design
Jury VerdictThe Line of Lode is the ore body which bisects Broken Hill – the raison d’etre of the town’s creation. This project is composed …
RAIA Awards 2001
This year’s national jury visited a collection of remarkable buildings across australia. It was a great privilege, and at times a humbling experience, to encounter …
Sir Zelman Cowen Award for Public Buildings
Melbourne Museum, Denton Corker Marshall
Radar
Projects
SYDNEY: FOOTBRIDGEThe City Projects division of the City of Sydney has recently completed the Ultimo footbridge, a key element of the city’s east-west pedestrian network. …
Books
Settlement: A History Of Australian Indigenous HousingEdited by Peter Read. Aboriginal Studies Press, $33.This publication is a significant contribution to the small handful of existing …
Interior
Memory, reflection, contemplation. Naomi Stead looks at Freeman Ryan’s restrained Recollection Room, for the Sisters of St Joseph, and at the contemporary phenomena of the interpretative installation.
Headlines
InternationalKerry Hill Architects has received an Aga Khan Award for Architecture for the Datai Hotel, Malaysia ›› Simon Nummy won an Asia/Pacific regional prize in …
Event
The Beijing/Perth Urban Forum raised more questions than it answered. Justine Clark reports.
Heritage
Postwar heritage issues and sustainability coincide in a Tasmanian housing competition. Richard Blythe outlines the issues and argues for the retention of Windsor Court as part of a layered urban environment.