Architecture Australia, July 1999
Architecture AustraliaProvocative, informative and engaging discussion of the best built works and the issues and events that matter.
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Foreword
There is a tradition within the RAIA that the newly crowned President almost immediately boards a plane for the US to represent the RAIA at …
Utzon’s Character: Early Catalysts
Utzon’s Character: Early CatalystsAfter three decades of international research, Australian author Philip Drew is ready to publish the first serious analysis of Jørn Utzon’s life …
Features
Corporate Overhaul
Photography John Gollings, Brett BoardmanRice Daubney has completed an unpopular assignment to update John Andrews’ Sulman Award-winning American Express Tower at King and George Streets, …
Wagga Central
Photography Patrick Bingham-HallCultural nerves in Wagga Wagga have been both soothed and inflamed by the arrival of a new civic centre, designed by Melbourne’s Garner …
Social Golf
Photography Grant MudfordHank Koning and Julie Eizenberg, Australian architects in Los Angeles, have produced a colourful practice range to support the film city’s current fascination …
Visceral Living
Photography Tim GriffithBirth, violence, religion, football, sex and menstruation. Wood Marsh toy with life’s dangerous engagements in a warehouse-to-residence conversion for adventurous Melbourne clients.Above Red-tiled …
Jungle Rhythms
Rex Addison reveals another marvellous bush pavilion to shelter his family’s rituals and pleasures.
Radar
Interior
Katie Molnar and James McGrath highlight a new Sydney hair salon with a sinuous wall of illuminated, computer-manipulated and super-enlarged follicles. Andrew Nimmo inspects their …
Students
The University of Tasmania’s summer timber workshop at Launceston has become a highlight of the national student calendar—and two campus bus shelters emerged from the …
Headlines
Right UTS’ newly named Peter Johnson Building, designed by Cox Richardson. Scanning the nation for architectural news and noteworthy nuances.NATIONAL Many architects designing public spaces …
Books
Noting new books at Architext BELL: THE LIFE WORK OF GUILFORD BELL, ARCHITECT 1912-1992Edited by Leon van Schaik, compiled by Ronnen Goren, published by Bookman …
Heide’s Next Scenario
Left Model of O’Connor + Houle’s winning scheme for the MOMA at Heide/Banksia Park, with the original house at top right. O’Connor + Houle …
Projects
YORKE PENINSULA: WHEAL HUGHES MINE VISITOR CENTRE South Australia’s Copper Coast has a new visitor centre, at Moonta on Yorke Peninsula, designed and built by …