Tag: Brutalism
Kerry Hill Architects designs expansion of WA’s first brutalist building
The first building in WA “to be influenced by the brutalist style of Le Corbusier” will undergo an $18.3 million expansion designed by Kerry Hill Architects.
Architects appointed for university boiler house transformation
Architectus and James Cubitt Architects will design the transformation of the University of New England boiler house.
$30 million for Perth Concert Hall redevelopment
The Western Australian government has pledged $30 million to redevelop the brutalist Perth Concert Hall.
Nine shortlisted to transform brutalist boiler house
The $15.25 million Boilerhouse Discovery Space project will transform the structure into an interactive children’s space.
‘Foreboding’ brutalist hospital added to Victorian Heritage Register
The former Footscray Psychiatric Centre has been given state heritage listing.
Architects invited to reimagine university boiler house
The University of New England is seeking expressions of interest from architects to convert decommissioned Boilerhouse.
Brutalist ‘brooding hulk’ recommended for heritage listing
The former Footscray Psychiatric Centre has been recommended for state heritage listing by the executive director of Heritage Victoria.
Campaign to save the brutalist Footscray Psychiatric Centre
The National Trust and a brutalism-loving photographer are campaigning for a psychiatric centre in Footscray to be heritage-listed.
Brutalist Bidura children’s court to be demolished after council appeal fails
A NSW court has rejected the City of Sydney’s appeal against a 2018 decision allowing a developer to demolish the Bidura Children’s Court and Metropolitan Remand Centre (MRC).
Politics and brutalism in Brazil
Marnie Morieson visits some of São Paulo’s best-known examples of radical brutalism and ruminates on the role architecture can play in fostering a fairer, more equal society.
Court approves demolition of brutalist former children’s court in Sydney
The demolition of a brutalist former court building in Sydney’s Glebe has been approved following a ruling in the New South Wales Land and Environment Court.
City of Sydney steps in to save brutalist children’s court from demolition
The City of Sydney is calling for the Bidura Metropolitan Remand Centre in Glebe to be heritage listed.
‘Rethinking ways of living’: Home truths from Melbourne’s modernists
A series of interviews produced by Open House Melbourne features four of Australia’s most significant 20th century architects and designers.
Brutalism, a campus love story – or how I learned to love concrete
James Cook University lecturer Eduardo de la Fuente explores the brutalist buildings of Australian universities. He asks: What if universities could learn to love their concrete campuses again?
Brutalist-style School of Molecular Bioscience at USyd gains heritage listing
Stafford Moor and Farrington’s brutalist School of Molecular Bioscience (1970–73) gains heritage nod from National Trust NSW as a “fine example” of an at-risk architectural style.
The brutality of vertical living
Colin Martin reviews the film High-Rise, based on JG Ballard’s novel about the psychological effects of ‘the tower block’.
Bid to save Qld’s Cultural Precinct
Brisbane’s brutalist, Robin Gibson-designed Queensland Cultural Precinct faces an uncertain future.
Arts, crafts and brutalism
Kennedy Nolan Architects reflects on its inspiration from early modern movements for details great and small.
