Recessive yet bold: Outside In House
This purposefully recessive, distinctively contemporary alteration and addition to a rundown bungalow by MODO celebrates the house’s architectural lineage while providing room for modern living.
‘Explorative and special’: One Room Tower
This detached extension to a Queenslander house challenges conventional models for alteration and addition projects with a design that oscillates between connectivity and autonomy.
A neighbourly venture: Loft House x2
Born of a unique collaboration between neighbours, this project by Brad Swartz Architects saw two rear-lane parking spaces in inner Sydney transformed into spatially elegant one-bedroom dwellings that evoke a sense of calm.
Peninsular pavilions: Three Piece House
This comfortable and unpretentious home by Trias is remarkably of its place and creates a compelling dialogue with the fabric of the neighbourhood.
Verdant Victorian: Garden Room House
This deliberately restrained addition to a Victorian terrace by Clare Cousins Architects – which replaces an oversized faux period structure – revolves around a central courtyard to create a verdant haven in Melbourne’s inner north.
News
Newcastle’s brutalist civic centre to become luxury hotel
The City of Newcastle’s distinctive brutalist offices, originally designed Romberg and Boyd and Wilson and Suters, will be transformed into a luxury hotel after the council sold the building.
Anthony Gill Architects to design food hall in Kengo Kuma’s Darling Exchange
Anthony Gill Architects has designed a series of rectilinear boxes for a food hall that challenges Kengo Kuma’s circular geometry for the Darling Exchange building.
Australian Space Agency HQ planned for former Royal Adelaide Hospital site
As part of a city deal for Adelaide, the federal government has announced the site of the Royal Adelaide Hospital as the future home of the Australian Space Agency.
Hobart planning committee adopts most of architect’s height limit scheme
The Hobart City Council Planning Committee has voted to endorse a review of height limits in the central city by architect and urban design consultant Leigh Woolley.
Projects
Recessive yet bold: Outside In House
This purposefully recessive, distinctively contemporary alteration and addition to a rundown bungalow by MODO celebrates the house’s architectural lineage while providing room for modern living.
‘Explorative and special’: One Room Tower
This detached extension to a Queenslander house challenges conventional models for alteration and addition projects with a design that oscillates between connectivity and autonomy.
Reviews
Creating better cities: Hong Kong’s Business of Design Week 2018
At the Business of Design Week in Hong Kong, a purpose-built pavilion showcased the largest-ever presentation international presentation of Victorian design.
‘Magic at work’: Cookie’s architect on its enduring design
Phillip Schemnitz, who has designed some of Melbourne’s most-treasured restaurants, bars and nightclubs, reflects on his career and the people who have defined it.
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
Entrepreneurial and inventive: Alana Cooke
Emerging designer Alana Cooke enjoys designing within small spaces and prides herself on forming genuine friendships through her work.
Architect and start-up founder Simon Cookes changing the landscape of site surveys
The architect behind a digital start-up launching in December wants to create the “Uber” for spatial information.
Vale Christopher Procter, 1964–2018
Architect and urban designer Christopher Procter was blessed with a “perfect cocktail of humility, humour, intelligence, energy and empathy.”
Vale Maurice Mahoney
In remembrance one of New Zealand’s most quietly influential architects.
Discourse
Hands off Anzac Hall
Philip Leeson, ACT Chapter President of the Australian Institute of Architects, argues that the federal government’s plans to demolish and replace the Denton Corker Marshall-designed Anzac Hall in Canberra at a cost of $498 million are “unnecessary and wasteful.”
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
Artedomus introduces Magnesia slab and Polardur mosaics
Artedomus has introduced two new products to its natural stone collection.
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.
The world
Open Architecture’s ‘primal’ Dune Art Museum completed
New York-founded architecture firm Open has designed a contemporary art museum that is carved into a dune along a beach in Qinhuangdao, north-eastern China.
Belgian crematorium an ‘ode to verticality’
Dutch and Brazilian practice Kaan Architecture has designed a crematorium in Belgium intended to comfort and soothe.
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.