Architecture Australia, January 2021

Architecture Australia

Architecture Australia Jan/Feb 2021

Preview

Preview | Katelin Butler | 15 Jan 2021

AA January/February 2021 preview

Experimentation, speculation and invention: Exploring the meaning and merit of unbuilt architecture

Discussion

In its design for the Hallam Bypass Sound Walls (2003) in Melbourne, Kerstin Thompson Architects’ aim was to create a rich and dynamic spatial experience for pedestrians and resi- dents as well as drivers.

Discussion | Maryam Gusheh | 8 Mar 2021

Leverage: Positioning practice and challenging expectations

Maryam Gusheh speaks with Jude Barber and Kerstin Thompson about how they activate their professional circumstances, training and knowledge to extend architecture’s reach.

Projects

Cox Architecture’s plan arranges distinct school precincts around a green “oasis” that is a focus of the constructed landscape.

Projects | Sheona Thomson | 28 Jan 2021

The city classroom: Fortitude Valley State Secondary College

At Brisbane’s first vertical school, by Cox Architecture, students are experiencing a different kind of secondary education that makes the most of the urban surroundings.

Once established, the commercial tenancies on the ground level will activate the busy arterial road.

Projects | Andrew Nimmo | 18 May 2021

Concrete artistry: The Surry

In high-density Surry Hills, The Surry apartment block continues a pattern of renewal in this part of inner Sydney as well as an architectural pattern immediately discernible as Candalepas Associates’ work.

Dossier

The attitude that Trias took to its design for Half A House has continued into the studio's built work.

Discussion | Anthony Burke | 19 Aug 2021

The role of speculative work in architectural practice

Five studios reflect on the process of designing an unbuilt project and the value of such speculative work, with sometimes unexpected results for the studios’ ongoing work.

Discussion | Mark Tyrrell | 23 Aug 2021

Unbuilding utopia

Unbuilt work can be a trojan horse in the process of making big decisions about the evolving city, embedding big spatial ideas at a scale that has previously eluded architectural influence.

Rather than seeing architecture from the outside as object, we need to understand it as a form of production, from within.

Discussion | Melanie Dodd | 24 Aug 2021

Beyond building: Redefining architectural production

Mel Dodd discusses how we might reconsider professional and public views of architectural production beyond the misrepresentative binary of built and unbuilt.

The site recommended for the (as yet unbuilt) National Aboriginal Art Gallery was the Desert Park precinct of Mparntwe (Alice Springs), at the foot of the ranges rising to Alhekulyele (Mount Gillen).

Discussion | Andrew Broffman | 22 Mar 2021

Indigenizing practice: Patronage and peril

For Indigenous communities in Australia, many projects remain unbuilt because of inadequate funding, opaque grant requirements and lengthy contract negotiations. Andrew Broffman considers the unsavoury side of unbuilt projects.

Although poised and without human scale, the building remains inviting.

Projects | Anita Panov and Andrew Scott | 12 Apr 2021

The ‘robust’ and ‘blunt’ Chau Chak Wing Museum

Rendered in raw, off-form concrete that will accept the effects of the weather and wear its patina with grace, JPW’s Chau Chak Wing Museum is a composed and monolithic yet welcoming addition to Sydney’s public institutions.

The bridge’s aerofoil edge references wartime forms, subtly speaking to the memory of military ships and planes.

Projects | Alysia Bennett | 4 May 2021

Differing perspectives: Bridge of Remembrance

On a highly contested site, valued as both a place of memorial and a green space available for the people, DCM has worked with local partners and government to create a symbolic and functional structure that changes with viewpoint, inviting a variety of interpretations.