Walking together: krakani lumi
With care for Country a critical aspect of its design, the krakani lumi standing camp is Taylor and Hinds Architects’ poetic and evocative interpretation of the traditional shelters built by Tasmania’s Aboriginal people.
2018 NSW Country Division Architecture Awards
The Australian Institute of Architects has announced the winners of the 2018 NSW Country Division Architecture Awards.
Hecker Guthrie wins $30,000 design prize
Melbourne interior design practice Hecker Guthrie has won the National Gallery of Victoria’s 2018 Rigg Design Prize.
Eureka moments: Hatherlie
An unusual Victorian terrace house with ties to Ned Kelly and the Eureka Stockade has been sensitively updated, with a geometrically imaginative addition creating new living space while respecting the original house’s character.
Striking a chord: Treetop Studio
Hovering above the garage of a terrace house, this unassuming studio creates a calm space to listen to and make music, while also breathing life into an existing courtyard.
News
Melbourne’s design and architecture take to Hong Kong stage
The largest ever international presentation of Victorian design is on its way to Business of Design Week in Hong Kong.
Australian architects design 2018 APEC summit HQ in Papua New Guinea
Jim Fitzpatrick Architects and Conrad Gargett have completed a glazed conference facility in the Papua New Guinean capital of Port Moresby.
Pavilion at State Library of NSW converts paintings into sound
An interactive sound pavilion at the State Library of New South Wales allows visitors to “listen” to paintings from the library’s collection.
Dramatic facelift for home of Queensland Theatre
Conrad Gargett has completed the redevelopment of a theatre in South Brisbane for Queensland Theatre.
Projects
Walking together: krakani lumi
With care for Country a critical aspect of its design, the krakani lumi standing camp is Taylor and Hinds Architects’ poetic and evocative interpretation of the traditional shelters built by Tasmania’s Aboriginal people.
Eureka moments: Hatherlie
An unusual Victorian terrace house with ties to Ned Kelly and the Eureka Stockade has been sensitively updated, with a geometrically imaginative addition creating new living space while respecting the original house’s character.
Reviews
‘Understanding the lives of employees and the personalities of companies’: 2018 Work Place / Work Life forum
Work Place / Work Life, the annual workplace design forum that is part of the Design Speaks program, threw diverse perspectives and knowledge backgrounds into the turbulent discourse of workplace strategy and design.
‘Through the eyes of a street artist’: the work of miniaturist Joshua Smith
Luke Tipene and Campbell Drake, lecturers at the University of Technology Sydney, in the Faculty of Design Architecture and Building, reflect on Joshua Smith’s Urban Decay Exhibition.
Awards
2018 NSW Country Division Architecture Awards
The Australian Institute of Architects has announced the winners of the 2018 NSW Country Division Architecture Awards.
People
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.
‘Architecture is the closest thing to a human being that something can be,’ says Daniel Libeskind
Self proclaimed “people’s architect” Daniel Libeskind speaks to William Feuerman about his design process, humanistic architecture and the importance of inscribing a narrative to a place.
Vitruvius’s disciples: Trias
Australia’s architectural scene is brimming with new talent. Linda Cheng chats with the young designers who make up Trias, a small emerging practice with big plans for the future.
Discourse
Opportunity and autonomy: mental wellbeing in architecture
The need to meaningfully engage with mental health in architecture is clear, but what can we do? One possibility is to enhance student and practitioner autonomy by applying our skills to non-traditional problems.
- Housing Diversity: Adapting 1.0 Infrastructure for 3.0 Lives
- Women leading change: The potential for doing things differently
- We need more flexible housing for 21st-century lives
- Housing cooperatives: Domesticity’s challenge, a call to arms
- Melbourne or Sydney? This is how our two biggest cities compare for liveability
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
District welcomes Mattiazzi founder to Australia
Australian furniture District brought Nevio Mattiazzi and sales director Cristina Salvati to Australia in September for the Conversations at District speaking series.
PGH Bricks’ new handcrafted range offers ‘gravelly charm’
PGH Bricks’ new line of sandstone-style bricks are handcrafted in Australia and offer a novel, complex look for new homes.
Maximum Australia launches product for healthy buildings
Active 2.0 is a photocatalytic coating developed specifically for Maximum Australia’s pressed porcelain panels that reduces indoor nitrogen oxide (NOx) and volatile organic compound (VOC) levels.
Rogerseller introduces Caldera Furniture
Rogerseller introduces a new collection of bathroom vanity units designed by Nick Johnston in partnership with Italian manufacturer Falper.
Postcards
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.
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.