Architecture Australia, November 1996
Architecture AustraliaProvocative, informative and engaging discussion of the best built works and the issues and events that matter.
Comment
Letters
Unfair to Us and Glenn It was upsetting to discover the article Architecture About Aborigines by Kim Dovey ( AA July/August 96 ). We are …
Foreword
It should come as no surprise that the final issue of Architecture Australia each year is the most sought after, by members of the architectural …
Dim Resonances and Reality
As he drags Australian architecture into uncharted shoals of post-colonial theory, Leon van Schaik seems an enigma to many peers in his adopted Antipodes. Here …
Features
High Commendations
High Commendation Conservation – Services SA with Bruce Harry Steps and entrance portico. Image: Trevor Fox The Adelaide Botanic Garden Palm House is a tropical …
Commercial Award
Penfolds Magill Estate by Allen Jack + Cottier
Sir Zelman Cowen Award
Melbourne Exhibition Centre by Denton Corker Marshall for Public Buildings
Walter Burley Griffin Award
The Cliffs Boardwalk (stage 2) by Project Services (Queensland) for Civic Design
Environment Citation
Clare Design
Interiors Award
Interior award – Ashton Raggatt McDougall
Robin Boyd Awards
Robin Boyd Award for Housing – joint winners
President’s Award
for Recycled Buildings/Access Citation – Tonkin Zulaikha Level 3, a future studio, with Robyn Backen’s art installation ‘Christ Knows’. Northern facade of the powerhouse and …
Commendations
Commendation Public BuildingsPeddle Thorp & Walker with Robert DicksonTop: Entry. Above: A basement gallery.The Art Gallery of South Australia’s extensions are intended to answer the …
International Award
TR Hamzah & YeangMenara Mesiniaga is the prototype of a new, climate-responsive approach to the design of tall buildings in tropical cities. Located on an …
Lachlan Macquarie Award
for ConservationClive Lucas Stapleton & PartnersTop: Arched opening to the living room. Above: The main facade and reinstated verandah, with a fountain as centrepiece of …
Radar
Projects
Brisbane: Christmas Stage SetStephen Milton, a fourth-year architecture student at the Queensland University of Technology, is returning for an encore after his success in designing …
Headlines
Slices of the architectural action around Australia.
Reviews
Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa’s Cinnamon Hill house (1993), photographed by Dominic Sansoni.Geoffrey Bawa Exhibition of work by the Sri Lankan architect, arranged by Suhanya …
Books
Sir Banister Fletcher’s A History of ArchitectureTwentieth (centenary) edition edited by Dan Cruickshank with Australian contributions by Jennifer Taylor, published by Architectural Press/Reed Educational, hardback, …