International
Entries close for the ar+d Award for Emerging Architects on 18 September. Details at www.arplusd.com ›› Sean Godsell’s Carter/Tucker beach house won the award for best building in Australia, Oceania and the Pacific Rim at the inaugural World Architecture Award. The house was also the only single dwelling to make it into the final shortlist of seven for the Best Overall Building in the World ›› Crawford Partners Architects,in association with Kansas practice Ellerbe Becket,have won the rights to design and develop a $US300 million convention centre and associated waterfront facilities in Branson, Missouri ›› Woodhead International have won an international competition for the design of Gao Qiao town centre, one of the nine townships of Shanghai ›› Scott Carver Architects have received an International Design Award from the International Olympic Committee for their work on the Rushcutter Bay Sailing Shore Base ›› High-profile NZ practice Architectus has joined the Architecture Alliance ›› Peddle Thorp & Walker have won the contract to masterplan the overlay for the Athens Olympics ›› Alex Popov’s Rockpool graces the cover of the The Architectural Review’s June issue.
National
Time to make sure your software is legal. Architects and engineers are the first targets of the Business Software Association of Australia’s latest efforts in tracking down organisations and individuals using illegal software. Apparently architects regularly appear on the BSAA investigation lists and several firms have been “busted” for illegal software use (and faced significant damages claims) ›› The RAIA’s Environment Policy has been updated and adopted by National Council and is now available on the Institute website ›› The latest issue of Meanjin, “Under Construction”, takes a look at the city – Australian and others ›› For a fantastic, detailed architecture links website, with a focus on Australasia, check out Peter Johns’ site at zebralinks.tripod.com ›› Wei Shun Lee has been appointed project director at Woods Bagot ›› The BDP Environment Design Guide won a United Nations Association of Australia World Environment Day Award ›› Despite the RAIA’s efforts, the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs has refused to alter its competition for detention centres. The competition will still strip all participants of their copyright and moral rights, and intends “mixing and matching” the winning scheme with ideas from the other schemes ›› John Denton is one of ten “leaders in their field” selected for “Men of Their Time”, a series of photographic portraits by Grant Matthews commissioned by Omega to launch a new watch. The limited series prints will be sold to raise money for “Youth off the Streets” ›› RAIA/SONA have published Terra#1 2000,a challenging-to-navigate documentation of recent student work ›› The RAIA’s Housing for Life competition was won by Michael Grave and Deena Ridenour. Second place went to Colin Mitchell and Francesca Davenport, and third place to David Kilpatrick in association with Song Gao, Mimi ZalehaAbdul Ghani and Yazied Sarkom. The winning project will be built in Adelaide by the South Australian Housing Trust.
Australian Capital Territory
Jo Metcalfe,former state manager of the ACT Chapter, has left the RAIA to become principal at Robert Peck von Hartel Trethowan’s Canberra office ›› The Magna Carta Monument, Britain’s gift to Australia for the Centenary of Federation, opens at the end of September. The competition-winning design is by Canberra-based architect Alastair Falconer and British exhibition designer Marcus Bree ›› In an attempt to improve the quality of residential design, the ACT Government has announced that general rates will be halved in the first year for those who buy houses that the government considers well designed ›› ANZAC Hall, DCM’s new exhibition space at the rear of the Australian War Memorial, has opened ›› St Hilliers has been selected as joint venture partner with Kingston Foreshore Development Authority to complete stage one of the project, including 189 dwellings, commercial and associated infrastructure.
New South Wales
Lord Mayor Frank Sartor has abandoned redevelopment plans for the MCA following a perceived lack of public support for Sauerbruch and Hutton’s competition-winning proposals. NSW Premier Bob Carr has since announced recurrent and capital funding from the State Government to support the museum in its current location. ›› Space Odysseys: Sensation and Immersion is showing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales until 21 October. It includes installations by James Turrell and Bruce Nauman ›› The National Urban Design Forum conference is planned for Newcastle at the end of November ›› Work has begun on Alexander Tzannes Associates ceremonial entry to Centennial and Moore parks ›› The NSW Police Service is using the Building Greenhouse Rating Scheme’s Commitment Agreement to ensure the new Police Service Facility in Parramatta will perform at 4.5 stars ›› The State Government has released its draft masterplan for Sydney Olympic Park ›› The Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority has begun consultations towards developing a masterplan for West Circular Quay – stretching from First Fleet Park to the Harbour Bridge ›› Professor of engineering Adrian Page has been appointed pro vice-chancellor of the new Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment at UNewcastle ›› Harry and Penelope Seidler, Glenn Murcutt, James Weirick, Jennifer Taylor and Robert Irving all went to bat over proposed changes to the property adjacent to Ken Woolley’s 1963 Woolley house. They argue that changes to the neighbouring property would have a significant and detrimental effect on the heritage value of the house. Mosman Council has approved the work, subject to conditions which include a landscape management plan requiring the replacement of screening trees ›› The City of Sydney received a Special Achievement in GIS Award from the US Environmental Sciences Research Institute for the city’s interactive mapping system at www.cityofsydney.nsw. gov.au ›› Expat Australian philosopher Professor Elizabeth Grosz gave a public architecture lecture at UNSW, suggesting that architecture should take the contributions made by the natural more seriously ›› The new Wattle Street Footbridge in Ultimo, designed by the Sydney’s City Projects team, has opened. It will be a key element of the east-west pedestrian network linking Ultimo and Glebe to the CBD ›› The State Government is holding an on-line ideas competition for South Sydney’s Green Square town centre ›› The Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority will oversee the redevelopment of Cooks Cove, near the airport. This involves a “gateway commerce and technology hub”, a new golf course and the protection of existing wetlands ›› Mobile Metropolis,an exhibition overviewing Sydney’s transport systems, opens at the City Exhibition Space at the end of September ›› The State Government has launched its electronic procurement implementation strategy ›› Heritage NSW has listed Walter Burley Griffin’s Eric Pratten House and the Sydney Observatory by Colonial Architect Alexander Dawson ›› “Ground Plane”, the first issue of the second series of Content, was launched with a debate, “The Ground Plane in Architecture”, between Col Madigan, Richard Leplastrier, Peter Davidson and Richard Francis-Jones. The annual publication is supported by UNSW and Lend Lease and edited by Ninotchka Titchkosky, Richard Francis-Jones,Lawrence Nield and Jeff Mueller ›› BT Office Trust has commissioned Foster and Partners to design a new office tower in Phillip Street ›› The NSW Police Safer by Design program will require all building proposals to be approved by police assessors ›› In a bid to protect sensitive coastal land, the State Government has announced its Coastal Protection State Environmental Planning Policy, which requires any NSW project within one kilometre of the ocean to be approved by Premier Bob Carr ›› Rome-based Carl Pickering, of Lazzerini Pickering Architetti, has joined forces with Tanner & Associates to design a new “dining establishment” for restuaranteurs Bill Granger and Maurice Terzini, on the new top level of the Bondi Icerbergs Club House ›› The Faculty of the Built Environment at UNSW has launched the Built Environment Preparatory Program for Indigenous students. The four-week program is positioned as a practical response to the absence of courses in built environment education that specifically address issues of access by Indigenous Australians.
Northern Territory
Work has begun on the Alice Springs to Darwin railway line.
Queensland
The Queensland Government has given the go-ahead on the Brisbane Football Stadium at Lang Park, designed by HOK Sport ›› The government is also interviewing for a master planner for the Queensland Place precinct, which extends to the Lang Park redevelopment ›› Bill Job, the man who introduced theme architecture to Australia with the 1977 design of the Pacific Fair, Gold Coast, has been named Architect of the Year by the Queensland Board of Architects ›› The board has also made student awards to Susan Holden and Kahn Neil of UQ and Timothy Benneton and Paul Wintour of QUT ›› Cox Rayner and Ainsley Bell Murchison have won the limited competition for the Brisbane Magistrates Court ›› Ryue Nishizawa (collaborator of Kazuo Seijima) and US architect Lisa Findlay spoke as part of the UQueensland architecture lecture series ›› QUT has announced the winners of three architectural design. Powell Dods & Thorpe with Denton Corker Marshall have won the South East Precinct at Gardens Point. Hassell/MGT have won Creative Industries and Powell Dods & Thorpe with Donovan Hill have won Health Sciences ›› Beth Benson of Canada’s Waterfront Regeneration Trust spoke about “rivers as urban landscapes” at The River Symposium ›› Crone McKerrell Lynch has changed its name to ML Design ›› Brisbane City Council plans to transform a 16.4 ha industrial site in Newstead into a “modern waterfront village”, with Mirvac undertaking the residential component ›› Retail Therapy,a collaboration between architects, artists, designers and retailers, shows in Fortitude Valley shopfronts in late September. Architects involved include Alice Hampson and Sheona Thompson, Arkhefield, Bligh Voller Nield, Bud Brannigan, Donovan Hill, Buchan Group, Cox Rayner, Fairweather Proberts, Hassell and Haysom Spender.
South Australia
Phillips Pilkington Architects have been selected as the architects for the fitout of the new RAIA SA Chapter Office ›› The Federal Parliament has approved the proposed Commonwealth Law Courts building to be located on Victoria Square, designed by Hassell ›› The Adelaide Convention Centre expansion project, by Woods Bagot/SOM, opens at the end of September ›› UAdelaide is holding a series of public lectures on contemporary SA architecture and landscape ›› Totalspace Design is working on a new four-classroom junior primary block at Woodcroft Primary School ›› The DIA’s design conference, Xperiment, will be held in Adelaide in October ›› Walter Brooke have tendered on a new $10.5 million building for Saab Systems at Technology Park, Mawson Lakes ›› Thomson Rossi are preparing concept plans for a significant upgrade to UAdelaide’s heritage-listed Mitchell Building ›› Mulloway Studio won the Adelaide Prize for the Queen’s Theatre Interpretation Project ›› Adelaide’s Lord Mayor Alfred Huang has announced a doubling of the city’s capital works budget ›› The city has also commissioned Danish urban designer Jan Gehl to undertake a six-month study of Adelaide’s public spaces.
Tasmania
Hobart City Council has launched new guidelines aimed at encouraging energy efficient domestic projects and a building fee rebate for projects that meet their energy efficient criteria. The guidelines are available online at http://www.hobartcity.com.au/ energy/index.htm ›› A consortium between Robert Morris-Nunn and Stanton Management Group has won the right to develop the old Henry Jones IXL building on Hobart’s waterfront.
Victoria
The Lord Mayor’s Prize has gone to Evan Walker and David Yencken for their work in identifying the potential of the Yarra River and Southbank, and for their contribution to Melbourne’s urban life. The Lord Mayor’s Prize is presented by the City of Melbourne in conjunction with the RAIA awards ›› The State Government has called for expressions of interest for the redevelopment of Spencer Street Station, to be carried out under the Government’s Partnerships Victoria policy ›› Harold Desbrowe Annear’s Church Street Bridge has been listed by the Heritage Council ›› Peter Stutchbury: Architectural Drawings showed at the William Mora Galleries in August ›› Eoin Barnett and Merv Dowrick have joined Architecture Alliance Sainsbury Reed ›› The Jewish Museum of Australia will show photographs by Wolfgang Sievers and Sharyn Meade of Ernest Fooks’s house, 17 October – 14 November ›› The Department of Infrastructure exhibited six proposals for the Sandridge Bridge redevelopment in July – including a giant ferris wheel, a reproduction of the Spirit of Progress train, a Ponte Vecchio-inspired structure, and a cocoon wrapped around the bridge. Community feedback is now being examined by an independent judging panel, with Barry Marshall as the architectural representative ›› The Sandridge development is part of the Government’s Yarra Plan, a proposal to revitalise the north bank of the Yarra ›› Norman Day’s architectural career was celebrated in August with an exhibition at the RMIT Gallery ›› New Architecture in Berlin opens at the RMIT Gallery in early November ›› Hotel developers Lustig and Moar plan to convert the former Police Headquarters building on Russell Street (1943), designed by Percy Everett, into apartments, with a new tower at the rear ›› The extrusion continues; DCM are designing extensions to the award-winning Emery house.
Western Australia
Mulloway Studio won the commission for the redevelopment of the museum at Mundaring Weir (Stage 1). This is part of the National Trust’s Golden Pipeline project which is looking at the adaptive reuse of six pump stations by George Temple Poole between Perth and Kalgoorie ›› Brian Kidd and Tony Ednie-Brown have been made Life Fellows of the RAIA ›› The new State Government has confirmed that the Perth Convention Centre, design by Cox Howlett + Bailey Woodland,is to go ahead ›› After two years of planning Glenn Murcutt spoke to the WA Chapter in August ›› The 1973 Perth Concert Hall, designed by Howlett and Bailey, has been added to the State’s Register of Heritage Places ›› The WA Chapter is running “Architecture on Show”, a series of exhibitions and events for Architecture Week, including the WA launch of DOCOMOMO ›› Robin Arndt, director of Team Architects, has been given the WA Architects Board Award.
