Architecture Australia, March 2021
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New into old: Valuing context and memory in contemporary built works
Projects
Embedded narratives: The Hedberg
Conceived as an “incubator,” the University of Tasmania’s new music school, designed by Liminal Architecture and Woha highlights the university’s important civic and cultural role.
Sense of communitas: Bethlehem College
In Sydney’s inner west, Neeson Murcutt and Neille has rejuvenated an historic school, linking a disjointed conglomeration of buildings and creating spaces for contemporary learning without losing the memory of previous built forms.
Town Hall Broadmeadows by Kerstin Thompson Architects
Kerstin Thompson Architects used the gamut of conservation strategies to create a new optimistic future for a much-loved suburban town hall affectionately known as “the pink elephant.”
The Australian Stockman’s Hall of Fame Rejuvenation and Upgrade Project
Two architectural practices continue their ongoing partnership in this rejuvenation of the “Opera House of the Outback,” showing admiration and respect for the original 1980s structure while enriching the visitor experience and delivering conceptually rigorous work to the region.
Third-gen city-making: 44A Foveaux Street
By treating an existing, undistinguished building as raw material, the architect has recognized the structure’s inherent value and acted with an ethos of sustainability and “a deliberate and joyful irreverence” in equipping it for the city’s changing needs.
More articles
Tactics of reconstructing the past: Recent residential practice
Ashley Paine considers a number of houses and the strategies used by different architectural practices to design new works that respect their heritage contexts.
Discoverable history: Museum Lab
Koning Eizenberg Architecture has continued its transformational work with the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, turning a sombre, 19th-century library building into a youth-centred “lab.”
Reading Country: Seeing deep into the bush
Country and its deep past is a vital part of First Peoples’ heritage. Danièle Hromek shares now how she supports non-Indigenous practitioners to ensure that Country is at the heart of their designs.
Heritage under threat: The role of activists
Architect-activists Christine Phillips and Tania Davidge consider recent campaigns to save valuable buildings across Australian cities.
Post-pandemic cities: The great reset
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the built form of our cities will surely change – but what type of future do we want to build for?
Bohemian legacy: The Hat Factory
In a once bohemian suburb of Sydney, a modest building that became a symbol for squatters’ rights has been sensitively renovated to retain its significance beyond its scale.
Lovell Chen: Custodians of Melbourne
For four decades, Lovell Chen has not only shaped Melbourne’s collective memory, but acted as a custodian of its fabric. And in its work around Australia, the firm has been visionary in breaking down the old–new binary to create “a poetry based in ethical practice.”