International
Hayball Leonard Stent’s design for the Jin Feng Garden Community Project.
The Jefferson Foundation has awarded Glenn Murcutt the Thomas Jefferson Medal • Cox Rayner has won the urban renewal masterplans for the Chinese cities of Yichang and Ningbo • Xing Ruan has joined the Nanjing based editorial board of the Chinese A+D published in Hong Kong • Glenn Murcutt spent the American spring semester as professor at Yale • Connell Wagner has entered into an alliance with with British engineers Mott MacDonald to form Connell Mott MacDonald • Hayball Leonard Stent is competing for the Jin Feng Garden Community Project in China.
National
Susan Best is editing a special issue of Photofile on photography and the built environment • The ABC will screen “City of Dreams”, the Marion Mahoney and Walter Burley Griffin documentary in May.
Australian Capital Territory
The National Capital Authority has announced an open competition for Reconciliation Place. Entries are sought from mixed-discipline teams, but each team must include an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander and an Australian registered architect or landscape architect • The ACT Government has announced a $7.9 million redevelopment of the Civic precinct, between Canberra Theatre and Canberra Playhouse, to include a public library • Three years after the competition, the Kingston Foreshore project, by Colin Stewart Architects, Cox Humphries and Moss Architects and Tract Consultants has been approved for implementation • The ACT Chapter will celebrate 40 years of the Walter Burley Griffin Memorial Lecture by publishing a volume of the orations. However, the addresses by Boyd (1962), Wilkinson (1963), Gorton (1966), Grounds (1969), Freeland (1971), J. Andrews (1975) and Professor Manning Clarke (1977) are missing. If anyone has any information about these lectures please contact Jo Metcalfe, state manager, ph 02 6273 2929.
New South Wales
The NSW Government Architect, has obtained Treasury funding to re-energise the Emerging Practices program for projects relating to public buildings • Owens & Legge has entered a partnership agreement with French architect Ronald Cecil Sportes • The Sydney Festival included a forum on people, place and power in urban design, focusing on Potsdamer Platz. Professor Omar Akbar, director of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, was joined by Paul Keating, Chris Johnson, Deborah Dearing of DUAP and Peter Droege • Vanessa Yee is now an associate at William Smart Design • All five architects for the MCA competition have been asked to develop their schemes further following the first round of presentations in December • The Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority has selected Ancher Mortlock and Woolley for stage two of Darling Island • Visions of Republic: the Work of Lucien Henry runs at the Powerhouse Museum from April 4 to October 14 • Harry Margalit, Rabee Reffat, and Densil Cabrera have been appointed to the University of Sydney • Tanner & Associates have won an Outstanding Project award in the 2000 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards for Culture Heritage Conservation, for the adaptive re-use of St Patrick’s College, Manly • Bill Tsakalos and Christopher Procter have formed a new consultancy practice, Project Architecture • Phillip Follent has won the controversial Ultimate Beach House competition for Casuarina Beach. Designs by Donovan Hill, Lahz Nimmo and Geoffrey Pie will also be built • The NSW Board of Architects is planning a series of public forums, “Architecture or Chaos”, in suburban and rural locations, using Paul Keating to gain a stronger profile and to generate dialogue about architecture and community.
Northern Territory
The NT Government has named Hannon Brunei (with architects Woodhead International) as the preferred developer for a $150 million mixed use project on the Old Darwin Hospital site.
Queensland
30 architects and 30 artists will collaborate on Retail Therapy, a series of shopfront installations along Brunswick Street. Coordinated by the Qld Chapter and the DIA, the installation coincides with the May opening of COCA (Centre of Contemporary Arts) designed by Cox Rayner • Shortlisted practices for the Brisbane Magistrates Court limited design competition are Ainslie Bell Murchison and Cox Rayner; Davenport Campbell, Bligh Voller Nield and Donovan Hill; Hassell with John Hockings and Alice Hampson; and Peddle Thorp and DEM Gillespie • Robinson DesignInc has changed its name to DesignInc Brisbane • Bligh Voller Nield, Hassell and Cox Rayner have been shortlisted to masterplan the Millennium Arts project, which will complete the Cultural Centre precinct, with the addition of a new gallery and extensions to the library. It coincides with DCM’s second stage of the Southbank masterplan.
South Australia
City as a Stage, a public forum on the changing role of cities as “stages” for economic, ecological, social, creative and cultural development, leads up to the 2002 Adelaide Festival of Arts • Work has begun on a new winery complex at Marananga by Richard Stafford Architects in association with Woodhead International • In the midst of corporate re-imaging, Paul Campbell Architects are maintaining their education focus with eight school projects going to tender since Christmas • Artists address spatial issues in the Domus series of exhibitions at the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia • Swanbury Penglase Architects with Walter Brooke & Associates have designed a new Science Centre at Scotch College.
Tasmania
Professor Roger Fay has started as the new head of architecture at the University of Tasmania • Justin Hanlon is the inaugural winner of prize for 3rd year students at the UTas School of Architecture, sponsored by Reinmuth Blythe Balmforth: Terroir.
Victoria
Charles Jencks spoke at the RAIA’s first Monday Night Design Talk for 2001 • An advisory committee to the state planning minister has recommended that the draft ResCode be abandoned. The committee has prepared an alternative code for consideration, which has the support of the RAIA • Structural engineer Bill Irwin, associated with the structural innovations of the Melbourne School, has died aged 83 • Elizabeth Raut is the new Vic Chapter state manager • The Vic Government is considering resurrecting a plan to renovate Parliament House • SJB/NFK are designing the Moonah Golf Links clubhouse, to be the home of the Australian Open Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, has been heritage listed for its social and architectural features • The Vic Chapter celebrated the end of 2000 with Small, an exhibition of new and emerging practices at Span.
Western Australia
Ross Donaldson and his staff have joined Woods Bagot’s Perth office • Peter Overman, a Life Fellow of the RAIA, has died aged 69 • The then Premier Richard Court officially opened the Bell Tower, designed by Hames Sharley, in December • Curtin University is planning a visit by Beijing avant-garde architect Yung Ho Chang • Gregory Cowan has joined the editorial board of the Journal of Australian Studies’ “New Talents 21C” • More than a year after the Town of Vincent announced artist Rodney Glick and CODA as winners of the North Perth AIDS memorial monument competition, the project is proceeding.
