Architecture Australia, July 2000
Architecture AustraliaProvocative, informative and engaging discussion of the best built works and the issues and events that matter.
Comment
Letters and Fixes
AUSTRALIA 200026 August-2 SeptemberUniversity of Canberra-30 Years-Making the Difference. A week of public celebrations acknowledging the contributions of UC and CCAE graduates to the community …
Obituary
Vale: Richard Butterworth LFRAIA; Al Arb A - Architect, Arbitrator and RAIA Gold Medallist 1986For thirty years, from the late 1950s, Richard Butterworth played an …
Foreword
The recent interim findings of the Productivity Commission inquiry have swept over the architectural profession like yet another ‘the end is nigh’ premonition. Certainly the …
Features
Logic and Language
Top left Central corridor with air-conditioning in the walls and ducting in the curved ceiling panels. Second from top One of the upstairs lobbies, paved …
Essential Clarity
The Design King studio in Sydney has produced another accomplished coastal house, influenced by Louis Kahn and vintage gems of the Sydney bush school.Photography by …
Civic Superiority
Delivering the third new office tower at Sydney’s King and George Street intersection, Denton Corker Marshall soars above heritage complexities with cool, discriminating authority.Photography by …
Terminal Velocity
Plan 1 Baggage Makeup 2 Hire Car 3 Breezeway/Café 4 Check-in Counters 5 Check-in Hall 6 Bar/Kiosk 7 Lobby 8 Departures Hall 9 Outbound Immigration …
Sublime Camping
Entrepreneurial architect Ken Latona’s latest eco-trekking lodge, at the Bay of Fires in Tasmania, is his finest production yet. Straddling the crest of a hill, …
New Salvation
Stepping aside from residences intricately crafted on high budgets, John Wardle’s Melbourne office has lately finished a new public service project: economical revisions to a Salvation Army hostel for homeless men.
Radar
Books
Noting new books at Architext PETER STUTCHBURYPhilip Drew with Richard Leplastrier, Philip Goad and Neilson Warren. Photography by Patrick Bingham-Hall. Pesaro Architectural Monographs, $54.95. Spread …
Expo 2000
described these extravagant late 19th and early 20th century spectacles as “places of pilgrimage to the commodity fetish”. They were also important opportunities for nations …
Regulation
Regulation or deregulation – an outline of the state of play.An active and vigorous response has greeted the Productivity Commission’s Draft Report entitled Review of …
Headlines
Scanning the nation for architectural news and noteworthy nuances.
RAIA State Awards
The first instalment of the RAIA state awards, leading to the nationals in Canberra on 17th November.
Students
The 2000 RAIA & BHP Colorbond® Steel Student Biennale lets the next generation show their potential. The jury makes three awards.