Architecture Australia, March 1996
Architecture AustraliaProvocative, informative and engaging discussion of the best built works and the issues and events that matter.
Provocative, informative and engaging discussion of the best built works and the issues and events that matter.
The dictionary defines art as human creative skill or its application and work showing this, and architecture as the design and construction of buildings, the …
Understanding CyberspaceAbove and top: scenes from Sydney’s Luna Park; photos by Toni Brown.Review Michael OstwaldRules of architecture and space are shattered in cyberspace, as Michael …
Fatal Flaw in New Urbanism I read with a mixed sense of horror and amusement the article on the revival of new urbanism in the …
Is 2000 still to be touted as an exemplar of green urbanity? Despite a talented design team, the new masterplan for Homebush fails to rescue serious conceptual flaws and political fluffs.
The southern building, seen from the south-east, with entrance at right; photo by Greg Burgess.Roofscape of bloodwood and copper shingles, looking across the roof over …
With entries down in eligible categories, no Prize is awarded this year–but honours are given to five schemes from Perth, Melbourne, and Sydney.
Fine detailing has elevated the Keverston ski lodges above tight development dictates for Thredbo, NSW–and earned architects Rodney Moss and Nanna Binning the RAIA’s current Canberra Medallion.
What’s been happening? Check this bulletin of newsNational Australias capital cities demand a co-ordinated federal policy, claims Roy Woodhouse, MD of Knight Frank Hooker >> …
Books on early Sydney, technological change and the city, strategies and policies for urban Australia and more.
Eliel Saarinen’s second prize scheme for Canberra, 1912.An Ideal City?Exhibition of entries from the 1912 competition to design Canberra. At the Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney, …
Every second March, Adelaide becomes the centre of Australia’s high culture—and this year, for the first time, architecture is seriously part of the action. Melbourne …
City and rural projects on the boards, lately concluded or in the delicate hands of the builders.