Architecture Australia, July 2010
Architecture AustraliaProvocative, informative and engaging discussion of the best built works and the issues and events that matter.
Radar
Tasmanian Architectural Narratives 2010
Mathew Hinds and Stephen Loo report on the 2010 Tasmanian Architectural Narratives weekend.
Headlines
INTERNATIONALWilliam J. Mitchell, Professor of Architecture and Media Arts and Sciences at MIT and alumnus of UMelb, died in June after a battle with cancer. …
Awards
And the winners are … We present the outcomes of the Australian Institute of Architects State Awards in the lead-up to the National Awards to be held in Canberra on 28 October.
Conference
Extra/ordinary
Books
Jørn utzon — the logbooks
Event
Food for thought
Urbanism
Victoria square tarndanyangga
Urbanism
Bringing plan-making back into planning
Education
25 years on — the colorbond student biennale
Exhibition
Please don’t let me be misunderstood
Bringing plan-making back into planning
Amelia Thorpe reflects on Barangaroo and lessons from Part 3A.
Victoria Square Tarndanyangga
Matt Davis comments on Adelaide’s latest urban regeneration project.
Extra/ordinary
Four delegates at the Australian Institute of Architects National Conference respond to its exploration of the culture.
Comment
Letters
Readers write
Foreword
Beat a path to the institute’s door
Reflection
Architecture and individualism
Obituary
Vale robert woodward am 1923—2010
Aa roundtable 03
Sustainable Futures: New Modes of Practice
AA Roundtable 03
What practice can do to move towards a more sustainable future.
Features
Kerr Street apartments
At once civic and civil, this multi‑residential project by NMBW Architecture Studio demonstrates a particular formal and spatial ingenuity.
Madec
Asymmetry and social purpose. Phillips/Pilkington Architects reworks a dormant Methodist church as a new home for the Mildura and District Education Committee.
Adelaide zoo
Hassell’s entrance precinct and panda exhibit at Adelaide Zoo welcome two bamboo-loving Chinese expats.
Yardmasters
A large black rectangle looms beyond the end of platform five at Melbourne’s Southern Cross Station.
Pirrama Park
Sydney’s awarded waterside park by Aspect Studios, Hill Thalis Architecture + Urban Projects and CAB Consulting.