Architecture Australia, May 2016
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An introduction to the May/June 2016 issue of Architecture Australia.
Projects
Squared up: Point Lonsdale House
With this house at Point Lonsdale on Victoria’s Bellarine Peninsula, NMBW Architecture Studio has cleverly arranged rooms and non-rooms under a striking roof form.
Kempsey Crescent Head Surf Life Saving Club
Neeson Murcutt Architects has designed an approachable building that engages with the public domain for this new surf life saving club on New South Wales’ mid-north coast.
De Stijl accelerator: Western BACE
Six Degrees Architects references De Stijl and late modernism in its design of this business accelerator for the burgeoning community of Melton, west of Melbourne.
Workplace drama: Novartis Head Office
HDR Rice Daubney’s design for Novartis Pharmaceuticals in Macquarie Park, Sydney provides staff and visitors with a complex, layered and dramatic experience.
Awards
2016 AAA Awards: Gold Medallists
The 2016 Gold Medal is awarded to ARM Architecture founding directors Stephen Ashton, Howard Raggatt and Ian McDougall.
ARM Architecture: Building the impossible and making a culture
Vivian Mitsogianni, RMIT associate professor, reflects on the work of the 2016 Gold Medallists, the directors of ARM Architecture.
ARM Architecture and the big public
From RMIT Storey Hall to the Shrine of Remembrance and Geelong Library and Heritage Centre, the architecture of ARM seizes the attention of passers-by and seeks to become an object in the public imagination.
ARM Architecture: Resilience is the name of the game
Dimity Reed discusses how a ‘cultivated resilience’ has enabled 2016 Gold Medallists, the directors of ARM Architecture, to create bold and ambitious work embedded with historical, fabled and emotional references.
Master storytellers: 2016 Gold Medallists ARM Architecture
Philip Goad reflects on the “openly figurative, demonstrative, discursive and even anxiously abrasive” attributes of the 2016 Gold Medallists, Stephen Ashton, Howard Raggatt and Ian McDougall.
2016 AAA Awards: National President’s Prize
Peter Maddison is honoured at the 2016 Australian Achievement in Architecture Awards.
2016 AAA Awards: Leadership in Sustainability Prize
Jeremy McLeod is honoured at the 2016 Australian Achievement in Architecture Awards.
2016 AAA Awards: Neville Quarry Architectural Education Prize
Professor Michael Ostwald is honoured at the 2016 Australian Achievement in Architecture Awards.
New chapter presidents appointed in Institute elections
The Australian Institute of Architects has announced the results of a number of elections to both its national council and its various chapters.
2016 AAA Awards: National Emerging Architect Prize
Amy Muir is honoured at the 2016 Australian Achievement in Architecture Awards.
2016 AAA Awards: Student Prize for the Advancement of Architecture
Peter Nguyen is honoured at the 2016 Australian Achievement in Architecture Awards
2016 AAA Awards: William J. Mitchell International Chapter Prize
Brian Burr is honoured at the 2016 Australian Achievement in Architecture Awards.
2016 AAA Awards: Dulux Study Tour
Dulux Study Tour 2016 Australian Achievement in Architecture Awards Australian Institute of Architects