Architecture Australia, July 2006
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INTERNATIONALLab architecture studio has won a competition to design the Xianlin Commercial Centre, a four-level retail complex in Nanjing, China // Tokyo-based Australian firm Riccardo …
Event
The utzon effect
Conference
The future is now!
Competition
East darling harbour
Interior
Newman college
Exhibition
Melbourne mid century
Biennale
Micro-macro city
Awards
RAIA State Awards
Features
Air
Poised above a shopping centre at Broadbeach on the Gold Coast, Air is a sophisticated residential tower by Ian Moore Architects.
Portico
Tonkin Zulaikha Greer’s addition to the Scots Church Assembly Building constructs a lively encounter between old and new, offering an articulate challenge to current conservation orthodoxy.
Housing Students
Tight budgets, constrained sites and minimal spaces. Student apartment buildings by Hayball Leonard Stent eke architectural potential out of difficult briefs and prosaic construction methods.
Deutsche Bank Place
A new commercial tower by Foster and Partners with Hassell responds to changing work patterns with large, flexible floor plates and a dramatic atrium.
Q1 Podium
The swirling canopy and clearly organized programme of the Q1 podium, by Innovarchi, make a significant contribution to the urban environment of Surfers Paradise.
The Urban Workshop
Tower urbanism. The Urban Workshop, by John Wardle Architects, NHArchitecture and Hassell in joint venture, collects histories of its site, the city and the tower into an intense constellation of forms and ideas.
Comment
Foreword
WHY ARCHITECTURE MATTERSWithin this journal of record on Australian architecture there is a story in the background, one which lies hidden behind the images of …
Reflection
CRITICS, GOVERNMENT, ARCHITECTUREArchitecture concerns buildings as objects and spaces, but it is also about the structures through which these objects and spaces are funded, commissioned, …
Engineering the water cube
A swimming pool made of bubbles. Tristram Carfrae of Arup outlines the engineering factors which led to the competition-winning Beijing Olympic Swimming Centre, by PTW, China State Construction and Engineering Co and Arup.
Obituary
Vale Ronald Lyon 1920–2006
Letters
Drew on the Opera House In 2000, Jørn Utzon said, “If you suddenly make windows in that platform it becomes an office building with something …
