Architecture Australia, March 2006
Architecture AustraliaProvocative, informative and engaging discussion of the best built works and the issues and events that matter.
Comment
Obituary
Vale Trevor Reddacliff 1942-2005
Obituary
Vale Jeffrey Howlett 1928-2005
Practice
SPECIFYING FOR SUSTAINABILITYArchitects are well placed to help effect change in the built environment, and specifications are on the way of subtly moving practices towards …
Obituary
VALE GAVIN WALKLEY 1911-2005From a portrait by Ivor Hele, CBE, 1968.Architect, landscape architect, town planner, academic. Giles Walkey remembers the many achievements of his father, …
Obituary
VALE BELINDA BRITO 1972–2005Photograph Ben HewittSydney’s architectural community recently lost one of its brightest young participants. Ben Hewett and Maryam Gusheh remember their cheeky, energetic …
Foreword
GOLD MEDAL AND RAIA INTERNATIONALEvery year the Royal Australian Institute of Architects (RAIA) honours an architect orarchitectural firm with the highest accolade the Australian profession …
Reflection
THERE AND HEREOnce again it has been a privilege to compile the coverage of the RAIA Gold Medal – this year it was a pleasure …
Features
Australian Wildlife Health Centre
Minifie Nixon’s Australian Wildlife Health Centre at the Healesville Sanctuary takes a highly experimental approach to programme, technique and form.
North Terrace
Both conduit and locale, stage one of the redevelopment of Adelaide’s North Terrace, by Taylor Cullity Lethlean with Peter Elliot, draws on the past to reimagine the city’s future.
Kerry Hill - RAIA Gold Medallist
RAIA gold medal Kerry Hill
L5
Crisp, clear and very lean, L5 is Bligh Voller Nield’s latest building for the University of New South Wales.
Shipwreck Lookout
Neeson Murcutt Architects’ highly refined viewing apparatus at Homebush Bay.
Radar
Books
TAKE 4: COLLABORATION AND COALITIONCREATING ARCHITECTURAL KNOWLEDGE IN CONTEMPORARY PRACTICEEdited by Louise Wallis, Paula Whitman and Susan Savage. RAIA, 2005. $33. I like the intent …
Unbuilt
THE OFFERINGTHE OFFERING Project team— Richard Weller, Gary Marinko, Mike Rowlands, Bruce RoweKaren Burns considers Richard Weller and Gary Marinko’s shortlisted entry to the Tsunami …
Memorial
MANDURAH WAR MEMORIALOverview of Mandurah War Memorial during a ceremony.Looking along the main ceremonial approach. The “Eternal Procession” of pillars marches across the site along …
Competition
NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERYThe winning entry by Johnson Pilton Walker, as seen on arrival.Models of the shortlisted entries. Top to bottom: the winning scheme by Johnson …
Competition
Philip Goldswain reviews the recent competition for Perth’s new performing arts venue.
Headlines
INTERNATIONALJohnson Pilton Walker’s design for the Science and Engineering Building for UNSW’s Singapore campus.Model of Wood Marsh’s ACCA for Museums of the Twenty-first Century.Johnson Pilton …
Exhibition
74’ 56 [SPACE IN THE SOUND OF ARCHITECTURE]PHOTOGRAPHY ROBERT COLVIN. Overview of the recent exhibition by Chelle Macnaughtan. Three lines of prints hung in the …