Architecture Australia, January 2002
Architecture AustraliaProvocative, informative and engaging discussion of the best built works and the issues and events that matter.
Comment
Letters and Fixes
Future ShackSand Helsel’s article “Future Shack”, featured in your September/October 2001 issue, is without doubt one of the most overt written examples of architectural self-deceit …
Foreword
Pundits predict that insurance companies will increasingly become the policeman of who can and can’t practice architecture over the next few years. Compulsory professional indemnity …
Obituary
Peter O’Gorman – architect, teacher and mentor – leaves a legacy of fine buildings and a generation of inspired and thoughtful students. Ellen Wooley and Peter Tonkin remember the intelligence, the generosity and the twinkling eye of this unassuming man.
Features
A Well Tailored Fit
Spowers’ new Chinese Chancellery is a careful negotiation between the complexities of contemporary Chinese institutional culture and its East Perth site. Review by Xing Ruan.
Memory and Museology
Denton Corker Marshall’s Anzac Hall hovers enigmatically in the shadow of the Australian War Memorial. Naomi Stead explores the project and the tensions between museum and memorial.
Sidney Myer Music Bowl
Gregory Burgess Architects’ redevelopment of the 1959 Sidney Myer Music Bowl respectfully enhances the facilities, while bringing new clarity to this Melbourne icon.
System + Metaphor
RMIT’s Biosciences Building brings John Wardle’s metaphoric, deinstitutional approach together with the systemised thinking of DesignInc Melbourne. Review by Rob McBride.
Cultural Endeavours
Cooktown has recently gained two new buildings for cultural institutions. Philip Goad looks at Rex Addison’s additions for the James Cook Museum and Bud Brannigan’s Art Gallery and Interpretative Centre.
High and Low
Music and architecture come together in the Sydney Conservatorium redevelopment by the NSW Government Architect and Daryl Jackson/Robin Dyke. Jeff Mueller presents a response in six parts.
Canberra’s Finnish Embassy
Stephen Frith reviews Canberra’s Finnish Embassy, by Hirvonen-Huttunen and MGT Architects.
Radar
Books
Noting new books at Architext
Urbanity
What of the west? The NSW Goverment Architect’s Office has a series of strategies underway to help revitalise Sydney’s west. Christopher Procter outlines the plans and asks how architects might learn to work in an environment that is traditionally ignored.
Interior
Worship, assembly, musical performance and theatre are all elegantly accommodated in a new chapel by Phillips/Pilkington. Rachel Hurst reports.
Moral rights in architecture
Jonathan Kenna on the effects of relevant legislation, with suggested strategies for architects defending their moral rights.
Headlines
International The National Museum of Australia by Ashton Raggatt McDougall and Robert Peck von Hartel Threthowan has won Blueprint’s Architecture Award for Best New Public …