Winners revealed: 2018 Australian Interior Design Awards
Celebrating Australian interior design innovation and excellence.
Australia’s 2018 Venice Biennale exhibition opens
The Australian Institute of Architects’ 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale exhibition, Repair, has opened.
2018 Victorian Architecture Awards shortlist
The Australian Institute of Architects has announced the shortlist for the 2018 Victorian Architecture Awards.
Twinkling terrace: PerfPad
Through a series of simple but effective alterations Northbourne Architecture and Design has transformed an existing terrace house into a more functional, light-filled home with a luminous street presence.
Crown on the dunes: Panopticon House
Arising from the undulating dunes of Cape Otway, this house combines a classic nine-square plan with a floating, independently resolved roof profile that controls and enhances panoramic views.
News
Curators appointed for 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial
The Chicago Architecture Biennial has appointed Sepake Angiama and Paulo Tavares as co-curators of the 2019 exhibition.
Australia’s 2018 Venice Biennale exhibition opens
The Australian Institute of Architects’ 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale exhibition, Repair, has opened.
John Wardle Architects, Room 11 complete installations for Venice Biennale main exhibition
Australian practices John Wardle Architects and Room 11 are among the 71 participants in the main exhibition at the Venice Architecture Biennale.
Tonkin Zulaikha Greer’s Walsh Bay arts precinct re-approved
The redevelopment of Walsh Bay arts precinct has been granted final planning approval with construction expected to begin in July.
Projects
Twinkling terrace: PerfPad
Through a series of simple but effective alterations Northbourne Architecture and Design has transformed an existing terrace house into a more functional, light-filled home with a luminous street presence.
Crown on the dunes: Panopticon House
Arising from the undulating dunes of Cape Otway, this house combines a classic nine-square plan with a floating, independently resolved roof profile that controls and enhances panoramic views.
Reviews
Permanent Impermanence: Spontaneity and joy in Gold Coast architecture
A portrait of the inherently transient character of the Gold Coast, this recent suite of photographs by John Gollings documents and celebrates a nimble architecture that responds to the “very human desire for spontaneity and joy.”
‘High art’ and entertainment: NGV Triennial
Rachel Hurst reviews the National Gallery of Victoria’s “blockbuster” inaugural NGV Triennial exhibition, with works from more than 100 contributors from 32 countries.
Awards
Winners revealed: 2018 Australian Interior Design Awards
Celebrating Australian interior design innovation and excellence.
- 2018 Australian Interior Design Awards: Premier Award for Australian Interior Design
- 2018 Australian Interior Design Awards: Sustainability Advancement
- 2018 Australian Interior Design Awards: Emerging Interior Design Practice
- 2018 Australian Interior Design Awards: Interior Design Impact
- 2018 Australian Interior Design Awards: Residential Design
People
Vale Norman Edwards
James Colman remembers Australian architectural educator Norman Edwards who left his mark on young architects all over the world.
The entrepreneurial architect: Jan O’Connor on tea, success and architecture
Architect, brand developer and businessperson Jan O’Connor co-founded the highly successful tea retail business T2.
Understanding the messiness of life: Kali Marnane
Ahead of 2018 International Women’s Day – this year focused on the role women play in humanitarian planning – Kali Marnane relays what she has learnt about Australian architecture in an Indian slum.
Vale Brian Smyth, 1931–2017
Brian Smyth, the Australian designer of the Valiant Charger for Chrysler Australia, died in Adelaide in January 2018, aged 86.
Discourse
How to fix Parliament House - what about some neighbours?
In the wake of the 30th anniversary of the opening of Parliament House, Kim Dovey uses the building to examine the “relations of architecture to power.”
- The search for an authentic architecture and city form on the Gold Coast
- Do Indigenous cultural landscapes matter?
- Building for the future: National energy strategy needs to consider energy use
- Sexism and the city: how urban planning has failed women
- Uneasy heritage: Australia’s modern church buildings are disappearing
Practice
Defective building products: Update
Update on activity to prevent the use of defective building products, in particular for aluminium compositive cladding
Products
Quick Step Intenso prefinished timber flooring
Quick Step has launched a new range of chevron patterns to its timber floor collection.
Breezway’s new secondary glazed louvre system optimizes serenity
Breezway’s new Altair Dualair Louvre Component System has been designed to offer a thoughtful and high performing secondary glazed louvre system to the commercial market.
Stegbar goes back to black with new monochrome shower screens
Stegbar has capitalized on the current trend for monochrome bathroom fixtures, hardware and accessories with its new Grange Black Showerscreen range.
New York-based Australian architect creates adjustable table legs
Tabl by Australian architect Nick Flutter is a set of adjustable legs that can convert any flat surface into a table.
Postcards
2018 Dulux Study Tour, Berlin: Architecture as an agent for social change
On the Berlin leg of the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2018 Dulux Study Tour, the group visited a number of projects that demonstrated how architecture could be used as a tool for social change.
2018 Dulux Study Tour, London: Does studio culture equate to the architecture produced?
The winners of the 2018 Dulux Study Tour visited a number of world renowned architectural practices in London and got an inside look at what drives their culture.
On a high: the Everest circuit
In this postcard from Nepal, architect Virginia Waller reflects on the relationship between the country’s alpine architecture and its remarkable natural setting.
A field guide to the architecture of the South Pacific
Architectural historian Bill McKay and photographer Jason Mann investigate the long-neglected architecture of the South Pacific.