Architecture Australia, May 2003
Architecture AustraliaProvocative, informative and engaging discussion of the best built works and the issues and events that matter.
Comment
Foreword
Outgoing president Graham Jahn, is a hard act to follow. His inspiring leadership has energised the RAIA, attracted an unprecedented number of new members, and …
Reflection: building architecture
SOMEWHERE BETWEEN THE messiness of the building site and the puzzles of architectural theory lies the profession, discipline and art of architecture. It is always …
Essay: architecture and culture
Andrew Benjamin argues that Australian architecture must open itself to the wider world of public policy. We can do this, he believes, by acknowledging that architecture is always traversed by the complexities of culture.
Features
Bingham-hall house
Space flexes, flows and ebbs in rex addison’s latest project, a small house tucked into the dense fabric of inner sydney.
Liberty tower
Elenberg fraser’s first large building is an eloquent essay on the tower genre and on speculative building.
In between
140 onslow road, a mixed-use development by blacket smith in association with daniela simon design, is an intense exploration of the middle ground as a site for architecture.
New markets, cultural differences
Shanghai context. View across the Huangpu river towards the Pudong New Area (special economic zone), at night. The tallest building is the Oriental Pearl broadcasting …
Redeveloping Circular Quay
Circular Quay is one of Sydney’s most significant public spaces – and one with an intense array of stakeholders. Andrew Nimmo considers recent redevelopments and speculates on issues for the future.
Form in the suburb
Where do we find the authority for form? Shane Murray’s latest extension is a modest yet ambitious project which invites us to contemplate some of architecture’s big questions.
Radar
Provocation
Difficult and disturbing, the house of excess by hamish lyon and bn architecture seeks to provoke discussion about the cultural and political role of the architect-designed house. Review by anna johnson.
Recognition
Jørn utzon has been named this years recipient of the pritzker prize. Philip goad reflects on utzon’s career and on what the award means for architecture in australia and elsewhere.
Projects
DECKCHAIR CINEMABuild Up Design architects are currently working on the Deckchair Cinema in Darwin.The project will see the outdoor cinema accommodated on a new site, …
Books
DREAM HOMEMark Wakely. Allen & Unwin, 2003. $29.95.For many architects, the word “home” incites connotations of naff clients going AWOL with dire memorabilia. Indeed, as …
Headlines
INTERNATIONAL MGT’s competition proposal for Sydney’s MCA has won the Architectural Review Future Project Prize. Tonkin Zulaikha Greer and Janet Laurence have won the competition …
Freeway
AIA/Burne Hocking Weimar’s work on the Calder freeway engages with the context and fleeting modes of visuality of the freeway. Review by Paul Walker.