Time traveller: Susuru
Designed by Prevalent, the futuristic interior of this restaurant in Newcastle enlivens the 1900s building it inhabits.
Melburnian ambience: Four Points by Sheraton
In Melbourne’s Docklands, DKO Architecture has designed an understated and elegant hotel delivers an experience for guests that feels at one with the real world just outside its doors.
Pure play: Nubo
PAL Design Group has created a new play environment in Sydney for children to make, create, build and explore as they exercise their imagination.
First House: Challis Penthouse
As one of his first projects, Andy Macdonald of MI Architects was given the opportunity to explore his interest in “colonizing underutilized roof space.” Eighteen years later, Andy reflects on this apartment design and its influence on his practice’s subsequent work.
Revisited: Cammeray House
Imbued with a classical sensibility tempered by moments of inventive wit, Luigi Rosselli Architects’ meticulously crafted first house – designed for the family of INXS’s Kirk Pengilly – represents the best of postmodern architecture.
News
Rio de Janeiro named World Capital of Architecture 2020
Rio pipped Melbourne to the post for the title of World Capital of Architecture, as part of an initiative by UNESCO and the International Union of Architects.
Work begins on Munro development at Queen Vic Market
Construction has begun on the large-scale community and residential development of a site adjacent to the historic Queen Victoria Markets in central Melbourne.
Tzannes adds to series of engineered timber buildings with design for UNSW
Tzannes and Lendlease have designed a multi-purpose building constructed from Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) for the UNSW’s main campus in Kensington.
Peter McIntyre Beaumaris house recommended for heritage listing
A mid-century modernist house in Melbourne, one of Peter McIntyre’s innovative and experimental bowstring truss designs, has been recommended for state heritage listing.
Projects
Time traveller: Susuru
Designed by Prevalent, the futuristic interior of this restaurant in Newcastle enlivens the 1900s building it inhabits.
Melburnian ambience: Four Points by Sheraton
In Melbourne’s Docklands, DKO Architecture has designed an understated and elegant hotel delivers an experience for guests that feels at one with the real world just outside its doors.
Reviews
Four Robin Boyd houses revisited
To mark the centenary of Boyd’s birth, ArchitectureAU looks back at his most enduring legacy, residential architecture, through four of his houses.
Architecture for rent
From modernist masterpieces to contemporary compact living, ArchitectureAU rounds up five award-winning and exemplary homes for the holidays.
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 Geoffrey Pie, 1938–2018
Don Watson remembers the life and work of Queensland architect Geoffrey Pie, who passed away on New Year’s Eve.
Mel Bright of Make Architecture
Make Architecture skilfully balances the public life of the city and the private domain in its growing suite of carefully considered, highly crafted residential projects.
Alison Brooks talks architecture’s ‘role in making people feel valued’
Alison Brooks, principal and creative director of Alison Brooks Architects, sat down with Donald Bates to discuss her career beginnings, philosophy, and her award-winning projects.
Entrepreneurial and inventive: Alana Cooke
Emerging designer Alana Cooke enjoys designing within small spaces and prides herself on forming genuine friendships through her work.
Discourse
Buildings produce 25% of Australia’s emissions. What will it take to make them ‘green’ – and who’ll pay?
With 25% of greenhouse gas emissions produced by the construction, operation and maintenance of buildings, what must be done to generate a working strategy to improve Australia’s chances of keeping the carbon-neutral promise by 2050?
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
New Taubmans All Weather Exterior formula engineered to deal with harsh Australian conditions
Formulating paints for the Australian market means dealing with the continent’s particularly harsh and changeable conditions.
Cosentino expands Dekton surface range
Cosentino has expanded its Dekton range of surfaces with six new shades.
Australian Trellis Door Company’s security screens installed at Ferrari Showroom
The Australian Trellis Door Company’s FC1 wide panel folding door was installed at the Ferrari Showroom at the Star Casino in Sydney.
Rogerseller brings stone and recycled marble Claybrook bathware to Australia
A line of natural stone and recycled marble baths and basins from British bathware producer Claybrook is available in Australia for the first time at Rogerseller.
The world
Extreme Conservation: Antarctic Huts
Bill McKay discovers the historic huts left behind from previous Antarctic explorers’ efforts to reach the South Pole.
Politics and brutalism in Brazil
Marnie Morieson visits some of São Paulo’s best-known examples of radical brutalism and ruminates on the role architecture can play in fostering a fairer, more equal society.
The streets of San Francisco
In this postcard from San Francisco, Sydney architect Virginia Waller reflects on the “heroic modernism” of the city’s striking cathedral, the towering Transamerica pyramid and a famous gift store designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Illegally demolished Richard Neutra house ordered to be rebuilt
The owner of a Richard Neutra-designed house in San Fransisco, which was illegally demolished, has been ordered to reconstruct an exact replica.