Architecture Australia, January 2001

Architecture Australia, January 2001

Architecture Australia

Provocative, informative and engaging discussion of the best built works and the issues and events that matter.

Comment

Libeskind
Archive | 1 Jan 2001

Libeskind

For a few days in october last year daniel libeskind hit melbourne: exhibition openings, press conferences, a sold-out public talk, newspaper articles, television and radio interviews. Architecture had a captivating and articulate spokesperson. Here is peter corrigan’s ruminations on the visit and karen burns’ interview with libeskind.

Archive | 1 Jan 2001

Foreword

It doesn’t seem that long ago that I was preparing to take on the challenge of the national presidency. Only one year ago we were …

Archive | Andrew Gutteridge | 1 Jan 2001

New Languages, New Opportunities

IT, IFC, FTP, IAI, Project Webs, Alliance Structures, 3D Models. So many new acronyms, so much new jargon. What does it all mean and where might it take us? Andrew Gutteridge outlines the vocabulary of new information technologies.

Letters and Fixes: Architecture Australia, January 2001
Archive | 1 Jan 2001

Letters and Fixes

“There are some avaricious architects, but there are many more unprincipled developers who will milk the system to the full.” - John Duncan.

Features

Funk and Functionality
Archive | 1 Jan 2001

Funk and Functionality

Brisbane’s winding riverbank is home to two new and very different theatre and gallery complexes.

Melbourne Museum
Archive | Paul Walker | 1 Jan 2001

Melbourne Museum

Denton Corker Marshall skilfully negotiate the complexities of the contemporary museum.

Tropical Parasol
Archive | Don Watson | 1 Jan 2001

Tropical Parasol

Sheltering the shipwrecked Pandora, the shining parasol roof of the Museum of Tropical Queensland alludes to many things – sails, scale-clad skeletons, upturned boat hulls.

Office Revolution
Archive | Philip Goad | 1 Jan 2001

Office Revolution

With an entirely new interior – a zen den, a beach and a table you walk on – plus a refurbished exterior, Campus MLC is a very stylish workplace for Generation X.

Radar

Books: Architecture Australia, January 2001
Archive | 1 Jan 2001

Books

Noting new books at Architext.

Event
Archive | 1 Jan 2001

Event

Watching TV and capturing the moment. Patrick Bingham-Hall and John Gollings were commissioned by the OCA to photograph the Olympics in process. Here is their post-occupancy evaluation.

Exhibition: Architecture Australia, January 2001
Archive | 1 Jan 2001

Exhibition

One world famous architect, three exhibitions, two institutions and a dealergallery. Museums, Jewish projects, drawn works. Justine Clark finds her waythrough Lineage: The Architecture of Daniel Libeskind.

Petrol
Archive | 1 Jan 2001

Petrol

Beyond petroleum. Paula Whitman drives up to BP’s new travel centres.

Landscape
Archive | 1 Jan 2001

Landscape

Artful parody, understated design, Australian cosmopolitanism – new genres are emerging in Australian landscape architecture. Helen Armstrong reports from last year’s AILA Awards.

Projects
Archive | 1 Jan 2001

Projects

Melbourne: Curtain Wall Image: John Gollings Redevelopment work continues at RMIT, with Stage 2 of the Urban Spaces Project now underway. Peter Elliott collaborated with …

Headlines: Architecture Australia, January 2001
Archive | 1 Jan 2001

Headlines

Scanning the nation for architectural news and nuances.

Competition: Architecture Australia, January 2001
Archive | Dimity Reed | 1 Jan 2001

Competition

Shot gun marriages produce new Ideas for the City. Dimity Reed reports.