International
Europa Nostra, the Pan-European Organisation for Built Heritage, has awarded UQ graduate Anthony Gall and partner Katalin Kugler with the Europa Nostra Medal for their work on the Elephant House in the Zoological and Botanic Gardens in Budapest ›› The Architectural Review (UK) has again drawn readers’ attention to Architext, the comprehensive architectural website run by Alice Hampson and Anthony Morris in Brisbane ›› Minale, Tattersfield, Bryce & Partners have won an award from the American Society of Environmental Graphic Design for the Prince of Wales Hospital Memorial Garden interpretative signage and environmental graphics ›› Five Australian projects have been shortlisted in the World Architecture Awards: DCM’s Melbourne Museum, Sean Godsell’s Carter Tucker House, Bligh Lobb’s Stadium Australia, Cox Rayner’s Museum of Tropical Queensland and Harry Seidler and Associates’ Wilderness House ›› Queen’s Birthday honours included Kenneth Charlton, Member of the Order of Australia for services to architectural heritage conservation, Dr John Gray, Medal of the Order of Australia for services to landscape architecture, and Eve Laron, Medal of the Order of Australia for services to architecture.
National
The Grand Prix in this year’s Dulux Colour Awards went to Burley Katon Halliday for Oh!
Calcutta! The Residential Interior Award went to Sam Marshall; Allen Jack + Cottier won the Residential Exterior Award for Moore Park Gardens; and the Commercial Exterior Award was won by Buchan Group for the Macquarie Shopping Centre. Public Spaces and Temporary Structures was won by Stuart Clark for the Nike Athletics Facility ›› The RAIA has criticised a “design competition” for new Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs detention centres as exploitative and likely to lead to poor results.
The competition would pay entrants a fee for participating in the competition, and would automatically assign “all rights relating to the facility concept design(s) and other material prepared for, or submitted as part of the competition” to the Commonwealth.
Australian Capital Territory
The National Capital Authority has announced a competition for a National Emergency Services Memorial on the northern banks of Lake Burley Griffin ›› Collard Clarke Jackson has won the RAIA (ACT) Sustainable Architecture Award for the Ian Ross Building at ANU ›› Professor Andrew Metcalf has been appointed to a new position as managing director–design at the National Capital Authority ›› Michael Mossman, a UCanberra architecture student, has received the inaugural Indigenous Design Scholarship, provided by the NCA.
New South Wales
Peter Poulet is to be the next design director at the DPWS, the first internal appointment to this position ›› DCM has been selected as the preferred architect for the KENS site development under the design excellence competition process. All submissions were displayed at the City Exhibition Space ›› UNSW is planning a symposium on journal publishing in architecture, from 19-21 October, 2001. International speakers include Ole Bouman, editor of Archis, Nancy Levinson, co-editor of Harvard Design Magazine, Akira Suzuki, editor of Telescoweb, Wang Lu, editor of Shijie jianzhu and Zhi Wenjun, editor-in-chief of Shidai jianzhu. Two panels will look at Australian publishing ›› Citizens and the City, at the Powerhouse, draws on the Tyrrell Collection to examine the relation between Sydney’s citizens and its public spaces ›› The shortlist for the RTA Transitways competition for 35 Liverpool Transitway stations is Bligh Voller Nield, Cox Richardson, Ancher Mortlock and Woolley, Hassell, Woods Bagot/Eva Jiricna Architects and Lahz Nimmo Architects with Travis McEwen Group ›› Don Gazzard presented a talk at the City Exhibition Space comparing images from his 1964 book and exhibition Australian Outrage with new photographs of the same spaces.
Gazzard is planning a second exhibition of the same name ›› The 2001 National Trust (NSW) EnergyAustralia Heritage Award winners include Allen Jack + Cottier and Design 5 for Woollahra Council Chambers and Hassell for the North Sydney Olympic Pool ›› Michael Davies Associates has completed the Auburn Civic Centre redevelopment ›› The Marc Newson exhibition runs at the Powerhouse from 9 August ›› Shiguru Ban is this year’s Design Week guest ›› The Daily Telegraph reports that the Land Environment Court has turned down a Defence Department application to develop its Randwick depot into the largest single inner-city development site ›› USydney has called for expressions of interest for the redevelopment of the Faculty of Architecture’s Wilkinson Building. The redevelopment is intended to express a new image for the school ›› Sites Unseen, an exhibition by the Sydney Harbour Federation Trust of preliminary plans for the future use of maritime and defence lands – including the North Head Artillery School, Middle Head-Georges Heights, Cockatoo and Snapper Islands and Macquarie’s Lighthouse – shows at the City Exhibition Space until 5 August ›› The NSW Government is examining strata title legislation, to see if changes can be made to improve its impact on urban design. National President Graham Jahn has spoken against strata titles, saying they are “killing Australian cities” ›› The winners of the NAWIC NSW Chapter Awards included Professor Tong Wu of UNSW, who received the Multiplex Vision Award, and Keiko Amenomori Schmeisser, Christine Eccles, and Ann Cleary, recipients of the DPWS Design Award for the Garema Place Canopy Structure, ACT. The Acoustic Logic Consultancy Art Award went to Robyn Bracken for the Sydney International Airport Weeping Walls ›› The City Exhibition Space and the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects are holding a series of talks throughout the year ›› The controversial MCA competition entries have been on public display, in a beautifully designed exhibition at the MCA.
Northern Territory
Spowers, Woodhead International, Jackman Gooden and Peddle Thorp are on the shortlist for the proposed Chinatown project ›› Admiralty House, one of Darwin’s few remaining heritage sites, has been offered to developers on the condition that the property be retained and incorporated into the proposed residential/hotel development ›› Lighthouse opened at Darwin’s Parliament House on 4 June ›› Jackman Gooden and Spowers are designing the Mitchell Centre, incorporating the new Darwin Police Station, Coles shopping complex and an office tower, in Darwin’s CBD ›› Further down Mitchell Street, Burling Brown is designing a staged $80 million office/commercial/hotel development.
Queensland
The Queensland Government has announced two architectural competitions for South Bank – an international competition for the new Queensland Gallery of Modern Art and a major expansion of the State Library of Queensland. Art gallery details are at www.queenslandmodern.com. Library details are at www.expandyourmind.com.au ›› Images of Llama, the apartment development designed by Marc Newson, have been released ›› Rex Addison’s engaging linocuts illustrate Mother Lode by Susan Addison, a memoir for the couple’s teenage son Charlie, who died of cancer in 1995. Tales of the Addisons’ award-winning house are woven through the final stages of the book ›› Jacqueline Galloway has been appointed senior interior designer at Bligh Voller Nield ›› The winners of Queensland’s regional awards are as follows: Brisbane Building of the Year, Redcliffe Library and Art Gallery by Project Services; House of the Year, D House by Donovan Hill. Central Queensland Building of the Year, Emerald Hospital by Fulton Trotter & Partners. Mackay Building of the Year, Gordon White Library by Sanders Turner Ellick. Darling Downs Building of the Year, Chinchilla Tafe, SQIT by Project Services. Sunshine Coast Building of the Year, Brolga Theatre by Bligh Voller Nield; House of the Year, Loong Mau Yuien (Dragon House) by John Mainwaring & Associates.
Far North Queensland Building of the Year, Earlville Ishmael Rd Apartments by CA Architects. Gold Coast Building of the Year, Cafe & Gallery at Mt Tamborine by Gall & Medek Architects. North Queensland Building of the Year, Patteson House by Troppo ›› The Harry Marks Sustainable Architecture Award has been won by Project Services for the Redcliffe Library and Art Gallery ›› Weissenhof Siedlung,an exhibition of the 1927 Deutscher Werkbund experimental housing and Romberg: Frederick Romberg and the Architecture of Migration both open at the UQueensland University Art Museum on 9 August.
Tasmania
Philp Lighton Architects has relocated and redeveloped the historic railway station at Penguin ›› The Department of Justice and Industrial Relations has completed a feasibility study into the construction of a new prison on the site of the existing Rison Prison. The next stage includes detailed studies of the prison components. Contracts will be let in stages over the next seven years so as not to drain the fragile Tasmanian capital works program ›› Glenn Smith and Associates have been awarded the $15M redevelopment of Reece High School in Devonport, destroyed by arsonists earlier in the year.
South Australia
The RAIA SA Chapter, USouth Australia and UAdelaide hosted an ESD masterclass with Marci Webster-Mannison ›› Having left Hassell, Adrian Evans has now joined Resource Architecture ›› Sustainable Architecture Awards of Merit went to Habitable Places for the Parsons Head Toilets and to Roberts G. Williams Architects, for Port Adelaide Residence. Troppo Architects received a commendation for the Nobbs-Blyfield Additions.
Victoria
Jeff Turnbull has retired from the University of Melbourne ›› The RAIA Vic Chapter has established the Melbourne Architecture Foundation to commemorate the centenary of Federation. The Foundation’s first effort was a series of architectural tours for the Federation Festival ›› Following an invited competition, Ashton Raggatt McDougall and McGauran Soon are working with Lend Lease on the redevelopment of Melbourne Central ›› Mark Burry has been appointed Professor of Innovation at RMIT ›› The Office of Housing’s environmentally sustainable housing design competition for 100 units on a site in Raleigh Street, Windsor, was won by DesignInc Melbourne, second was Hayball Leonard Stent, and third was FMSA Architects. The development is required to use no non-renewable energy in its operation, to reduce water demand by 50% compared with conventional housing, and to last for at least 200 years ›› Bligh Voller Nield are the architects for the City of Latrobe’s new corporate facilities ›› The RAIA Vic Chapter’s Sustainable Architecture Award was awarded to the Bairnsdale House by Taylor Oppenheim ›› Dimity Reed, Ian McDougall and Michael Keniger gave a Deakin Lecture, to celebrate Federation, titled “The Future of the Planned City” ›› Federation Square’s second open day attracted large crowds and positive feedback ›› Plans have been submitted to the Docklands Authority for an icesports complex at Docklands which will include Australia’s Olympic winter sports headquarters. The “Icehouse” proposal has been designed by Cox Sanderson Ness/SCI ›› UMelbourne is proposing a theatre and apartment development in Southbank. Designed by Peddle Thorp, the project would house the Melbourne Theatre Company and be funded through apartment sales ›› Greg Burgess’s new visitor centre has opened at the Twelve Apostles ›› The design team for the MCG redevelopment has been appointed. Daryl Jackson Architects, HOKSport, Cox Sanderson Ness, Tomkins Shaw and Evans and Hassell have formed a joint venture named MCG5 Sports Architects ›› Tarryn Deeble is the winner of the 2000 Synman Justin Bialek Architects Design Award for final year architecture students at UMelbourne ›› Winners of the City of Stonnington Urban Design Awards are: Best New Residential Development: Single Dwelling, O’Connor + Houle Architecture for 50 Argo Street, South Yarra; Best New Residential Development: 2-10 Dwellings, McBride Charles Ryan for 21 Wynnstay Road, Prahran; Best Heritage Design Addition and Alteration, Col Bandy Architects for 24 Lascelles Avenue, Toorak; Best Heritage Design Restoration, Barry Giles for 9 Como Avenue, South Yarra; Best Non-Residential Development, Bates Smart for Swinburne University; Occasional Award: Landscape Design, Buchan Group with RTKL Landscape and Site Image for Chadstone Shopping Centre. The Judges Award went to O’Connor + Houle Architecture, and no award was made in the high density residential development category as no projects reached the standard required ›› Wood Marsh has been selected to design the Collins Street Bridge ›› Rescode has been released by the State Government, without the mandatory regulations that were part of the first draft. The emphasis on “neighbourhood character” remains and the onus will be on architects to demonstrate that innovative architecture can sit within the “neighbourhood character” idea.
Implementation at local government level is the major area of concern, with the State Government putting a series of training schemes in place.
Western Australia
Premier Geoff Gallop’s restructure of government departments will create a new Department of Housing and Works. The RAIA WA Chapter’s discussions with the review panel about improving the coordination of issues pertaining to the built environment were largely achieved. The Institute is also lobbying for the reinstatement of the position of government architect ›› Curtin’s recent accreditation panel has given the architecture program a glowing review ›› A Heritage Fund has been proposed to buy and renovate heritage buildings which the owners do not wish to improve ›› Many State Government projects are on hold pending the new Labor government’s review of funding priorities ›› WA President Warren Kerr has held discussions with the WA Municipal Association regarding improving the Local Government Council’s appointment procedures for architects ›› The School of Architecture & Fine Arts at UWA, currently a department within the Faculty of Arts, is about to become an independent faculty again ›› CCJ DesignInc’s new $8 million temple for the Church of the Latter Day Saints has opened in Perth ›› Woodhead International has completed a new visitor centre in the Karijini National Park, Pilbara ›› Professor Yung Ho Chang, Dean of the Graduate School of Architecture at Peking University, Beijing, presents the Robertson Memorial Lecture on Thursday 23 August ›› No RAIA Sustainability Environment Award was made in WA. The jury felt that the only entry had not been open long enough for its energy efficiency to be properly assessed.
