Architecture Australia, March 2003
Architecture AustraliaProvocative, informative and engaging discussion of the best built works and the issues and events that matter.
Comment
Letters
OutrageA multi-storey building has been put up anonymously in the heart of Adelaide. It is quite obviously one of the most clumsy and unresolved installations …
Foreword
Firestorms%br% The recent firestorms which ravaged Canberra left an extraordinary ashen imprint 530 houses totally destroyed and a further 1000 partially damaged. With only 70% …
Features
Gold medallist
RAIA Gold Medallist 2003 Peter Corrigan: life through architecture
Federation square
Melbourne’s most significant set of new public buildings and spaces is now open. Four critics – John Macarthur, Graham Crist, Gevork Hartoonian and Zara Stanhope – approach the project from four directions.
Sky garden
Poignant and provocative, Sky Garden reconfigures the materials and techniques of the traditional memorial to create a project which is at once familiar and unusual. Katrina Simon reviews the Pentagon Memorial proposal by Room 4.1.3 and collaborators, one of six short-listed in the international competition.
Radar
Books
The culture driven workplace: Using your company’s knowledge to design the officeDavid Week. RAIA Education Division, 2002. $38.50.David Week’s book, published by the RAIA and …
Projects
Craigieburn BypassTaylor Cullity Lethlean, with Tonkin Zulaikha Greer and artist Robert Owen, have won the competition to design Melbourne’s northern gateway – part of the …
Exhibition
A series of photographs by skeet booth and damian brinley records the worn, torn fabric of the much-loved bondi icebergs club. Review by naomi stead.
Urbanity
Gevork hartoonian review the exhibited plans to rebuild new york’s ground zero.
Headlines
InternationalTroppo Architect’s competition winning design for two buildings at Tel Aviv University.Troppo Architects have won an international competition for the Porter School of Environmental Studies …
Landscape
Catherin bull has just published the first overview of australian landscape architecture. Julian raxworthy reviews the volume and suggests further research directions to build on this work.