Architecture Australia, March 1997
Architecture AustraliaProvocative, informative and engaging discussion of the best built works and the issues and events that matter.
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Foreword
Recently I was looking through the documents used to construct a building in the1920’s. It was a retail building which today would cost about $5 …
Adam’s House in Cyberbia
Technology’s third wave is challenging many notions of home which have been cherished in architectural theory since Vitruvius. Here, two architects from the University of …
Letters
Is There an Audience of Architects?I regret any offence to Glenn Murcutt or his clients who have responded to my article (AA September/October 96). As …
Features
Nudel Bar
Attracting a buzz of appreciation and an RAIA state commendation,Melbourne’s Nudel Bar delivers neo-sixties and seventies imagery to urban groovers of the nineties. The architects …
AA Prize for Unbuilt Ideas
From 88 mainly student entries, RMIT’s Nicolas Koulouras wins this year’s AA Prize.His vigorous scheme nods to modernist sports arenas and takes current world interest in folded and crumpled facades a step onwards:thanks to an old Scientific American article about knots.
Pavilion on the Park
With a swirly plan and bold embellishments, Milan-trained Tony Masters rejuvenates a forgotten restaurant on the edge of Sydney’s Domain.
Tradition and Tomorrow
Discreetly updating Melbourne University’s historic, theological Trinity College, Bates Smart have completed the classic-modernist Evan Burge Library and now propose other enlightening interventions to accept the implications of the new millenium.
Other Geometrics
Sydney computer artist Horst Kiechle transforms a Melbourne art gallery into a techno-expressionist white grotto: creating amorphous and temporary interior architecture with CAD wireframes, virtual reality flythroughs
Practical Palimpsest
Using gutsy materials and colours in a heritage shell, Sydney architect John Cockings creates new offices for a publishing company with in a colonial bond store.
Radar
Schools
How are architecture schools responding to the 15% funding cuts?
Headlines
Industry news in concise cuts.
Docklands
Ashton Raggatt McDougall’s masterplan for Melbourne’s largest project–rejuvenation of the Docklands– is out in public.
Projects
Australian architectural concepts on the drawing boards, under construction or recently built.
Interiors
Quick scans: four new fitouts in Sydney and Brisbane.