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Archive | CAREY LYON NATIONAL PRESIDENT RAIAAustralian architects’ relationship with the suburbs has always been, and remains, fraught. This relationship has oscillated through extremes of hostility, ambivalen...

Active systems to reduce energy use

Practice | Blinds, including automated or sensor-operated, decrease heat loads in a room. If they are blocking direct sunlight, they also shield us from the uncomfortable effects of radiant heat. Home automation i...

Reuse

Archive | The new roof floats over the sandstone building of the former St James Station toilets. The cafe seen from Hyde Park. The outdoor cafe space sheltered by the pavilion roof and shaded by holland blin...

2013 National Architecture Awards: Public

Awards | The north facade uses a series of fixed sunbreakers, blinds and sliding internal panels to allow maximum enjoyment of natural light and views with the flexibility to control it. The design provides maxi...

620 Wickham Street

Projects | By the reduction of the window-area, or by the use of venetian blinds, we do not reduce the intensity at the point of entry. The only effect is to reduce the amount of light in the rest of the room, and...

Radical yet respectful: EDG Forum

Projects | Archer needed to “peel away the piecemeal additions, plasterboard walls and window blinds.” Once this had been done they were still faced with “an incredibly dark space,” which was not helped by the dar...

‘Immersive, multi-sensory’ grassland to be exhibited in Australia’s pavilion at 2018 Venice Biennale

News | Australia's exhibition at the 2018 Venice Architecture biennale will be an “immersive, multi-sensory” grassland with large-scale architectural projections. The winning exhibition proposal Repair by Ba...

‘On the rocks’: The story of Sirius and the fight to save it

Review | Myra Demetriou, the last resident remaining in Tao Gofers’ Sirius, may be 90 years of age and legally blind, but she refuses to be intimidated by a concerted government effort to displace residents of...

The hottest issues of 2017

Review | 1. Underpayment of staff and persistent gender pay gap / The findings of the 2017 Association of Consulting Architects salary survey, conducted by Dr Gillian Matthewson of Monash University’s XYX Res...

Highly crafted: Freshwater Apartment

Projects | City apartments and coastal houses satisfy different needs in different locations, and it can be a pleasure to move freely between the two, and an equal pleasure for the architect engaged to design fo...

A cottage reborn: Parmelia Street

Projects | After she had lived in her renovated house for several months, homeowner and client Gillian sat down to write a list for her architect. She was somewhat surprised at how easy she found it to compile m...

Editor’s picks: Top events of Melbourne Design Week 2018

News | The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) has announced the program for the 2018 Melbourne Design Week, which will run from 15 to 25 March. Themed "Design Effects," the 11-day program will ask "how desig...

2015 National Architecture Awards: Residential Architecture – Multiple Housing

Awards | Jury citation / The jury found this slimmest of residential slabs on a 126-square-metre site in Surry Hills, Sydney to be an exciting prototype for creatively rethinking tight inner urban locations. ...

Frederick Romberg award for Residential Architecture — Multiple Housing

Archive | Operable louvred blinds enable individuals to temper the sunshine and prevailing winds, which in turn adds subtle textural variation to the architecture’s public facade. Fronting the opposite, private f...

Commendation for Housing

Archive | The extensive glazing to the north pavilion is protected via electrically operated, external sun control blinds and extensive eaves. JURY VERDICT Two generous single-level pavilions, separated by the ma...

Interiors

Archive | Twisting the envelope of a Victorian bedroom, Perth architect Gary Marinko / has created a matchstick-modern boardroom for a law firm in the mining industry.AboveOverall view of the first floor boar...

2012 National Architecture Awards: Harry Seidler Award

Awards | The facade system includes an inner skin of performance glass, automated venetian blinds and an outer skin of clear glass separated by a naturally ventilated, externally accessible cavity. All aspects o...

2012 National Architecture Awards: Sustainable

Awards | The facade system includes an inner skin of performance glass, automated ventilated blinds and an outer skin of clear glass that is separated by a naturally ventilated accessible cavity. In addition to ...

Balmain East Residence

Projects | The shoreline around Sydney Harbour varies enormously, as do the houses on its waterfront. Modern properties on the eastern shores are designed to maximize the view at all costs. They are characterize...

Carnsworth House

Projects | While interiors by Jackson Clements Burrows Architects (JCB) always distinguish themselves, it is primarily the shells housing them that the practice is well known for. For this idiosyncratic 1960s ho...

So, what would Utzon do now?

Review | Soon enough the microphone crackles to life, blinds are lowered and the symposium begins in earnest. “What would Utzon do now” – the distinctively evangelical theme of the symposium, resonated with the ...

Enlightened learning: William Macmahon Ball Theatre

Projects | In these days of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and smart teaching with increasingly smarter devices, it might seem a little odd to be spending time and energy designing a lecture theatre. After ...

Dining with drama: Prix Fixe

Projects | It’s been said many times that Melbourne’s laneways are the lifeblood of the city. These narrow streets-between-streets have developed a cult status and are burgeoning with well-caffeinated cosmopolit...

Up the line: Lagoon House

Projects | Located in the south-eastern corner of the South Arm Peninsula, just outside Hobart, Clifton Beach is uniquely positioned on an isthmus between Pipe Clay Lagoon to the north and its popular surf beach...

Going with the grain: Hurlstone House

Projects | Revitalized original windows, big new doors that enable the courtyard facades to be slid away, clerestory lights in the kitchen, large vertically proportioned windows protected by external blinds and sk...

Prototype of fine-grain architecture: Studios 54

Projects | Adjustable external blinds moderate the internal environment, while the different colours on each level give strong character and identity to each apartment. A substation conversion by Hill Thalis in 20...

Unbuilt

Archive | THE OFFERINGTHE OFFERING / Project team— / Richard Weller, / Gary Marinko, / Mike Rowlands, / Bruce RoweKaren Burns considers Richard Weller and Gary Marinko's shortlisted entry to the Tsunami Memori...

Hawthorn House

Projects | Surrounded by Edwardian and Victorian brick edifices off a bustling road in Melbourne’s inner-east, you could be forgiven for thinking you’d stepped back in time, were it not for the rows of luxury ca...

Lyons Architecture Office

Awards | How does an architect create an environment for their architect client that expresses and fosters the culture of the practice, their stewardship as an employer, the need to nurture the creative proces...

Lyons Architecture Office

Awards | Lyons commissioned NMBW for a fitout with an essential brief of low energy and resource use combined with the fundamental requirement of a pleasant work environment. With a movement toward A grade off...