Architecture Australia, November 1997
Architecture AustraliaProvocative, informative and engaging discussion of the best built works and the issues and events that matter.
Provocative, informative and engaging discussion of the best built works and the issues and events that matter.
Lab Architectural Studio Inspection of the 177 entries to the Federation Square competition, on display at 230 Collins Street, Melbourne, from September 20 to October …
Interior Design: In or Out?I would like to thank the reviewer of the Interior Design: In or Out? forum (AA July/August 97) for the recognition …
Earlier this year, Roy McCowan Simpson was awarded the profession’s highest honour - the RAIA Gold Medal for lifetime achievements in architecture. Yet he died …
It is not necessary to know anything about architecture to experience its pleasures. We all experience architecture and the built environment, and we all comment …
top North facade with entry and garage served by bridges. above East facade of south (lower) wing. On a steep and narrow site in the …
Sunshine Coast Library by John Mainwaring & Lawrence Nield
Treetop Walk by Donaldson & Warn
St Vincents Aged Care Centre
Robin Boyd Award for Housing – Snelling House by Alexander Tzannes
top Existing tower and ground floor additions. above Guest suite. Within a tight (14 month) schedule, a declining Perth office block has been transformed by …
A small factory in Melbourne’s Richmond has been recycled into two levels of offices for the architect John Wardle. This refurbishment provides a reception area, …
This courtyard residence, on the crest of a hill overlooking the beaches of Merimbula, NSW, was produced as a holiday home for Melbourne clients of …
On a bush campus scattered with pavilions by distinguished architects, the University of Newcastle’s Faculty of Architecture has built a new tin shed to provide …
top Courtyard, looking north-east. above Internal street, looking south.The last Dalgety woolstores in Geelong, Victoria, have been revitalised by architects McGlashan Everist to serve as …
top General office from entry. above Meeting room.New offices for a firm of management consultants have been provided by architects Grose Bradley on the upper …
Genesis is a Singapore development which replaces four shophouses —a four-storey row of colonnaded terraces with workplaces on the ground floor—to take advantage of an …
Beside the Yarra River at Richmond, Victoria, a derelict, historic power station—a collection of buildings dating from 1878— has been developed as the headquarters of …
Rose Bay Cottage is the oldest surviving house on the Cooper estate known as Woollahra, NSW. It was conceived by John Verge in 1834 as …
top Aerial view of the park looking south. above Steel inlay in existing plaza boardwalk. Stage 2 of Pyrmont Bay Park, a new landscape for …
. If there is a theme in this year’s RAIA awards, it is a spirit of creative renewal and repair often overlooked by object-seduced juries …
Neo Metro combine Asian and industrial influences at Tho Tho, a Vietnamese restaurant in Melbourne’s Richmond. Report by Norman Day.If ever the design of a …
National The RAIA has released a new ‘plain English’ building contract, CIC-1, for national use and is lobbying for an all-states Architects Act • To …
Harbourings: Remaking Sydney’s Industrial Landscape Perspecta 1997 exhibition highlighting the past, present condition and potential of obsolete industrial sites beside Sydney Harbour, at the Museum …
Four notable exhibition catalogues and a thumping anthology of essays, noted by Davina Jackson.Architecture in Transition: The Sulman Award 1932-1996By Andrew Metcalf, published by the …
Australian concepts on the drawing boards, under construction or recently built.Auckland: Skytower New Zealand is boasting the tallest structure in the southern hemisphere: the 328 …