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.
‘Bold with an underlying elegance’: Carme Pinós’s MPavilion opens
The 2018 MPavilion, designed by Estudio Carme Pinós, has opened in Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Gardens.
News
Dramatic facelift for home of Queensland Theatre
Conrad Gargett has completed the redevelopment of a theatre in South Brisbane for Queensland Theatre.
Chrofi’s Maitland Riverlink wins at 2018 Blueprint Awards
Chrofi has won at the 2018 Blueprint Awards, an international architecture and design awards program convened by bimonthly British magazine Blueprint.
Digital mapping project exposes ‘alarming levels of harassment’ worldwide
A survey of cities around the world, including Sydney, chronicled thousands of instances of harassment by boys and men of girls and young women in public spaces.
Architects should train in post-disaster and humanitarian design, says QUT academic
Queensland University of Technology PhD candidate Liz Brogden says architects have the ability to save lives through the buildings they design.
Projects
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.
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
Housing Diversity: Adapting 1.0 Infrastructure for 3.0 Lives
With the onset of new technology, expanded living arrangements, procurement models and financial structure, Alysia Bennett assesses the options for citizens living 3.0 lifestyles in cities designed for a 1.0 world.
- 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
- Put unused and ‘lazy’ land to work to ease the affordable housing crisis
Practice
Finding opportunities in unlikely places: ACA Business of Small Practice forum
Held in Perth in July, the ACA’s Business of Small Practice forum provided insights and tools for architects who are launching, running or growing small practices in a transitioning economy.
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.