Architecture Australia, March 2018
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The architect’s own home as manifesto: An introduction to the March/April 2018 issue of Architecture Australia.
Digest
The activist potential of the architect’s own home
Janina Gosseye and Isabelle Doucet expound on residential architecture’s activist potential and the tensions navigated by architects who design their own domestic projects.
Looking Back, Seeing Through: Contemporary Australian Pavilions
Susan Holden and Ashley Paine examine Australia’s suite of high-profile pavilion programs through the lens of shifting global practices in art and architecture.
Projects
Diplomatic metaphor: Australian Embassy Bangkok
The Australian Embassy Bangkok, designed by BVN, explores the narrative potential of architecture through a visceral juxtaposition of Australian and Thai precedents.
Palladian rules: House with a Guest Room
In his design of this thoughtful and “radically judicious suburban villa” in coastal New South Wales, Andrew Power has appealed to strict classical sensibilities with artful familiarity and wit.
A considerate bunker: Compound House
In Melbourne’s bayside suburb of Brighton, March Studio’s Compound House offers a considered response to site and planning constraints and continues the firm’s keen interest in experimental fabrication.
Tribute to a world-wanderer: Captain Kelly’s Cottage
Through a forensic and addictive process of discovery, John Wardle Architects has painstakingly added to and restored this cliffside cottage on Bruny Island with “humble deference” to its history and the world-wanderer who called it home.
John Wardle Architects’ Tasmanian cabin named House Interior of the Year at 2018 Dezeen Awards
Captain Kelly’s Cottage by John Wardle Architects has won at the 2018 Dezeen Awards in London.
Touch wood: International House Sydney
This new commercial building in Barangaroo South, designed by Tzannes, celebrates the material, structural and aesthetic qualities of wood and sets a precedent for the use of engineered timber in Australia.
Monash University Biological Sciences Laboratory
A small, unassuming biology pavilion, Harmer Architecture’s Monash University Biological Sciences Laboratory combines austere materiality with expressive geometry to engage with its program and natural surrounds.
Marking an entrance: Triabunna Gatehouse
Marking arrival at this post-industrial township on Tasmania’s east coast, the Triabunna Gatehouse by Gilby and Brewin Architecture is a “visual feast,” inscribed with complex narratives of a place in flux.
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Metaphorical landscape: Northshore Pavilion
This riverside pavilion by Anna O’Gorman Architecture is an elegant but playful addition to the Northshore Hamilton development precinct and masterfully distils the essence of its maritime surrounds.