FMSA Architects’ winning design for Melbourne’s Federation Arch. | | associate at Hayball Leonard Stent >> The Hanover Design Competition will pair architects with developers in an attempt to address low-cost housing in the city. The site is the former Fish Market on the corner of Flinders and Spencer Streets. The ideas competition has been set up by Hanover Welfare Services in association with the State Government, the City of Melbourne and The Age, who will support it with a series of articles. Contestants are NFK and Mirvac, ARM and Australand, Lyons and MAB, Peter Elliott and Docklands, John Wardle Architects and Becton, Elenberg Fraser and Abigroup, Kerstin Thompson Architects and Grollo, Six Degrees and Staged Developments Australia
AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY
The National Capital Authority’s $1.5 million upgrade of the Anzac Parade paths has improved accessibility to the ten memorials >> GHD are refurbishing Becker House, the Australian Academy of Science’s Dome by Roy Grounds as a Federation project. The 1959 building won both the Sulman Award and the Canberra Medallion
SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Hassell is working on the new Multi User Integrated Terminal at Adelaide airport >> PPK Environment & Infrastructure has been appointed to prepare the “Coast Park Concept Plan” for Adelaide’s seventy kilometre stretch of metropolitan coastline. As part of this project the State Government has made a $142,000 open space grant for the redevelopment of the Semaphore Foreshore >> Hassell are preparing a draft Plan Amendment Report for the Park Lands Precinct of the Adelaide Development Plan; and a plan for the development, use and management of Botanic Park >> The unlisted Glenelg mansion (1864) is to be “sacrificed” for extra carparking in a Colley Terrace apartment development >> Swanbury Penglase are conducting a Conservation Plan Review for the Adelaide Oval
TASMANIA
The University of Tasmania plans to demolish Christ College, Dirk Bolt’s acclaimed 1960s residential complex >> Don Thompson is the long-awaited state manager of the Tasmanian Chapter >> Dr Roger Fay has been appointed Professor and Head of the School of Architecture at the University of Tasmania >> The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery is running an appeal to help fund the purchase of over 1500 drawings by the colonial architect Henry Hunter. An extensive database of the drawings has been launched on the TMAG website >> Barry Shelton and Leigh Woolley’s Draft Site Development Plan for Princes Wharf No. 1 and No. 2 is now the basis of an enquiry process by the Resource Planning and Development Commission >> The highlights of Living Working Cities, the International Cities and Town Centres Conference, were key note addresses by Alfonso Martinez Cearra from Bilbao and Donovan Rypkema from Washington DC >> The Univerity ofTasmania is running an Australian Timber Design Workshop early in 2001 >> Hobart’s Federation Concert Hall, by Forward Viney and Partners (now Forward Brianese and Partners), is having problems with the perceived fire performance of ”’Thermocell” walls. Temporary occupancy will be given by Council only if a fire brigade unit is present at functions >> Community hackles have been raised by the siting of the Tasmanian Wood Design Centre, designed by David Travalia assisted by Richard Leplastrier, inside the boundaries of City Park, Launceston’s oldest parkland
NORTHERN TERRITORY
The Architects Studio are involved in the controversial relocation and reconstruction of the Wesleyan Methodist Church - built in 1897 as a demountable building - from a central CBD site to the Botanic Gardens >> Phillip Cox is doing a major refurbishment of Ayers Rock Resort >> Steve Huntington reports that ex-NT Chapter President Ross Tonkin has been eaten by a crocodile, while attempting to save NT Chapter Manager Julie Culvert from a box jellyfish. AA has been unable to verify this >> Shortlisted for the new Convention Centre are the Paspalis Group Consortium and Multiplex with Phillip Cox and Spowers >> The Architects Studio is preparing preliminary concept designs for a new Park Headquarters in the Charles Darwin National Park >> Following a presentation by Nigel Shaw, the NT Government is considering using a design charette process in the planning of a development in Darwin’s Docklands
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Curtin University’s “Habitus 2000” included papers by leading sociologist Pierre Bordieu, on video link from France, and Richard Wilkes, a Nyoongar elder from Perth. Joseph Rykwert’s “Greening the City” suggested that sustainability has been disappointing in design terms - illustrated by some less than compelling work. The critique was welcomed by some, but disappointed others who felt it lacked truly constructive suggestions >> Big Journey, Small Buildings, work on the theme of the historic C.Y. O’Connor Kalgoorlie “pipeline” is on show at the John Curtin Gallery >> Draft planning rules, approved by the State Government, will force the Leighton Beach development to be dramatically downscaled
VICTORIA
Ashton Raggat McDougall, Rush\Wright Associates Landscape Architects and Charlwood Design Industrial Designers have joined forces to create Level 11, a new exhibition/project space in Flinders Lane >> >> Eggleston Mcdonald DesignInc has changed its name to DesignInc Melbourne >> The past is the future for Bates Smart who are moving their office to Orica House, (formerly ICI House), an early highrise steel office tower designed by Bates Smart McCutcheon in the 50s >> Artist William Seeto’s architecture-based perceptual environment work is on show at the RMIT Gallery in November >> The University of Melbourne is initiating a design focussed Master of Architecture by coursework, co-ordinated by Dr Paul Walker >> The well attended seminar “Environmentally Sustainable Architecture: Lip Service or Reality?” was the Victorian Chapter’s contribution to World Architecture Day on October 2 >> Denton Corker Marshall will design the new Chinese Consulate on Toorak Road >> Synman Justin Bialek and Nation Fender Katsalidis have formed a new practice SJB/NFK Architects >> The RAIA Victorian Chapter is trying to re-establish the Robert and Ada Haddon Scholarship, which gave young architects the opportunity to gain credibility for unbuilt competition work >> Fringe Architecture included the first annual Golden Toilet Awards. The Thomas Crapper Award for built work went to Grant Amon Architects, the RBA Group Prize for student work to Adam Pustola, and the Dymaxion Prize for unbuilt work to Simon Ellis >> FMSA Architects have won the competition for a Federation Arch to span Princes Bridge >> Construction has begun on Wood/Marsh’s new building for the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art >> The seventy acre Pentridge Gaol site in Coburg is to become Pentridge Village, a commercial and residential development. CBG Architects are working on sketch designs for the “Walled City” precinct >> The State Government has approved a $12 million grant towards the revitalization of central Geelong >> The Vic Chapter is working to raise the profile of architecture with the new state government with “Design Symposium”, an event aimed at advisers and senior government personnel >> The government has disbanded the working group appointed to find a replacement for the axed Federation Square shard. No decision had been reached >> Josu Ortuondo, ex Mayor of Bilbao, and Arie Rahamimoff, Chief Architect-Urban Designer, Jerusalem, spoke at Reinventing the Edge, a first in the City of Melbourne’s City Edge 2 series >> Tom Jordan has been appointed as an | |
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