Grown-up playground: Vacation Cafe
Neighbouring the serious Ernst and Young tower in Melbourne’s CBD, Vacation Cafe designed by Therefore occupies the streetscape like a kid in a rainbow parachute jacket among a sea of suits. It exudes a relaxed playfulness laced with eighties childhood nostalgia.
Taking flight: Bunjil Place
In referencing Bunjil the Creator, FJMT’s Bunjil Place raises ongoing questions about recognition, symbolism and community space.
Winners revealed: 2018 Eat Drink Design Awards
The winners of the 2018 Eat Drink Design Awards were announced at a ceremony in Melbourne on 13 November.
Revisited: Pymble House
A play on levels, roof planes and uncommon craftsmanship, this 1970s house by Allen Jack and Cottier – long kept somewhat secret – is a thrilling exemplar of the organic modernism of the Sydney School.
Bates Smart completes ‘game changer’ Flemington club stand
Bates Smart’s new club stand for the Victorian Racing Club is designed to be a “monumental” symbol for the racecourse.
News
Hassell wins competition to design ‘Panda Land’ in southern China
Australian-born practice Hassell has been named winner of a competition to masterplan a connected, immersive “panda trail” crossing the southern Chinese city of Chengdu
Refreshed Architecture Australia wins graphic design award
Architectural books, monographs and magazines were well represented at the 2018 AGDA Awards.
Tiny apartment wins top gong in 2018 Architeam Awards
The winners of the 2018 Architeam Awards have been announced.
Swinburne University introduces women-only architecture professorship
Melbourne’s Swinburne University of Technology has begun recruiting for an architecture professorial role that is open only to applicants who identify as women.
Projects
Grown-up playground: Vacation Cafe
Neighbouring the serious Ernst and Young tower in Melbourne’s CBD, Vacation Cafe designed by Therefore occupies the streetscape like a kid in a rainbow parachute jacket among a sea of suits. It exudes a relaxed playfulness laced with eighties childhood nostalgia.
Taking flight: Bunjil Place
In referencing Bunjil the Creator, FJMT’s Bunjil Place raises ongoing questions about recognition, symbolism and community space.
Reviews
All we can hope or ask for: The Architecture Symposium Sydney
At The Architecture Symposium Sydney, an event billed as giving voice to Australia’s world-class architects, Mark Raggatt found the day full of questioning and hope.
Human need, human condition: 2018 Health Care / Health Design conference
At the 2018 Health Care / Health Design conference, Casey Bryant found opportunities and challenges emerging as the home and the hospital become increasingly intertwined.
Awards
Winners revealed: 2018 Eat Drink Design Awards
The winners of the 2018 Eat Drink Design Awards were announced at a ceremony in Melbourne on 13 November.
People
Vale Maurice Mahoney
In remembrance one of New Zealand’s most quietly influential architects.
The poetics of performance: Alec Tzannes
Philip Oldfield sets Alec Tzannes’ legacy of sustainable architecture, including the “remarkable achievement” of International House Sydney, against the backdrop of the challenges of climate change looming in the coming decades.
Architecture is the ‘arena’ for social dynamics, says Syrian architect Marwa Al-Sabouni
Architect and author Marwa Al-Sabouni speaks about her ideas for rebuilding war-torn Syria and creating platforms for a country “hungry for knowledge.”
Re-building a country: Mphethi M. Morojele on indigeneity, animist architecture and sending off Nelson Mandela
In Australia for the Indigenous Design Symposium in July, Johannesburg-based architect Mphethi M. Morojele spoke with ArchitectureAU about the nature of indigeneity and architecture’s role in transforming South Africa.
Discourse
Sydney Opera House: Celebrating and protecting an Australian icon
The national and NSW chapter presidents of the Australian Institute of Architects jointly argue that the use of the Sydney Opera House as an advertising platform “highlights the complete lack of respect” government has for public architecture.
Practice
Gender equity needed ‘in every nook and cranny of architecture,’ census analysis shows
In 2012, Parlour published its first and devastating statistical portrayal of the loss of women from the architecture profession and their sparseness at senior levels. What progress has been made since then?
Products
Taubmans’ Colour of the Year a ticket to a ‘dense tropical jungle’
Taubmans has identified Night Watch, a shade “encompassing the tones of a dense tropical jungle,” as the Colour of the Year for 2019.
Geoluxe pairs exotic references with robust performance
A new stone surface now available in Australia pairs an elegant aesthetic with robust performance.
SP01 launches first storage collection with Milan studio Metrica
Yee by Metrica is a new storage system released by Australian brand SP01.
New trickle ventilation system from Darley Aluminium
Darley Aluminium has introduced a new trickle ventilation system to its range.
The world
Stockholm council dumps controversial Apple flagship proposal
A newly elected governing alliance for the Swedish capital has signed an agreement to drop plans for an Apple retail outlet at a prominent park in central Stockholm.
2018 Dulux Study Tour, Milan: Why is “style” a dirty word in architecture?
In the design and fashion capital of Italy, the participants of the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2018 Dulux Study Tour found Milan is a city that embraces the idea of “style” and how it shapes architecture.
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.