Architecture Australia, September 2001
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Comment
Letters and Fixes
MCA The architecture profession, and his own academy, should slap James Weirick’s hands for the offensive suggestion that the MCA competition judges decision be overturned …
Obituary
Ted Farmer led Australian architectural culture throughout the 1960s. Chris Johnson farewells the former NSW Government Architect 1909-2001.
Foreword
Graduates are the future
Features
Future Shack
Sean Godsell’s prototype emergency housing redeploys the ubiquitous shipping container.
Urban Theatre
A spiralling red theatre by Bolles + Wilson is the latest player on Rotterdam’s burgeoning docklands.
Formal Play, Civic Decorum
Pure geometries, public spirit and sustainable concerns are woven together with wit and dexterity in the Redcliffe City Library and Gallery. Review by Douglas Neale.
Line of Lode
Mining and memory, tragedy and tourism come together in two striking new projects at Broken Hill.
South Bank Dreaming
Laden with traces of its own past, South Bank is now one of Brisbane’s key public spaces. Louise Noble looks at the accumulated visions for a city.
Everyday Animation
By investing in the public realm, Donovan Hill’s AQIS Facility pushes the small commercial building into the domain of architecture. Review by Antony Moulis.
Radar
Awards
The RAIA state awards,leading to thenationals in Adelaide on November 16.
Competition 2
Reconciling this place. SueAnne Ware assesses the outcomes of Canberra’s Reconciliation Place competition.
Delight
Sam Aukland celebrates the idiosyncratic pleasures of Adelaide’s Elephant Walk Cafe.
Projects
Mt Tamborine: Gallery and Cafe Gall & Medek Architects have recently completed a gallery and cafe at Mt Tamborine, in the Gold Coast hinterland. Precisely …
Competition 1
What are the possible formal and spatial qualities of a postcolonial memorial? Stephen Cairns and Jane Jacobs look at the Stolen Generations Memorial competition.
Interior
Six Degree’s latest bar presents a complex layering of past and present – manipulating perception, it places history in doubt. Toby Horrocks reports.
Books
Noting new books at Architext
Controversy
Debate rages around Tonkin Zulaikha Greer’s proposed alterations to Col Madigan’s National Gallery of Australia. Andrew Nimmo looks at the proposal, its background and the attendant issues. Peter Tonkin describes the scheme.
Headlines
Scanning the nation for architectural news and nuances.