Architecture Australia, November 2002
Architecture AustraliaProvocative, informative and engaging discussion of the best built works and the issues and events that matter.
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Utzon’s Return
Finally, Joern Utzon is to work on the Sydney Opera House again. So far, two documents have eventuated: the Venue Improvement Plan addresses immediate functional issues, while Utzon Design Principles sets out key ideas and issues for the future. Peter Myers looks at both documents and outlines the significant aspects of each.
Obituary – Bill Lucas
Architect, educator, furniture designer, set designer, innovator, utopian, Bill Lucas died last year in the midst of ongoing work. Ruark Lewis and David and Anne Lucas compile a brief account of his diverse career and Peter Myers gives an affectionate account of this remarkable man.
Letters and Fixes
Reconciliation PlaceI believe that the review of the Reconciliation Place competition by SueAnne Ware (AA September/October 2001), glossed over the issues raised by the NBC …
Urban Solutions
Big car, big block, big house. Our urban environments are facing crisis as we continue to develop in unsustainable ways. Drawing on his recent publication, Urban Solutions: Future Proposals for the Australian City, Rob McGauran, inaugural recipient of the revamped RAIA Sisalation Prize, outlines the issues and proposes some ways forward.
Foreword
It has been said that there will be no new cities in Australia and no new regional shopping centers in NSW for the foreseeable future. …
Features
Award for Commercial Buildings
Shear Outback – Australian Shearers Hall of Fame, Paul Berkemeier Architect
Walter Burley Griffin Award for Urban Design
Sidney Myer Music Bowl Refurbishment by Gregory Burgess Architects
Colorbond Commendation for the Use of Steel
Connolly Residence by Lindsay Holland
Commendation for Public Buildings
Sidney Myer Asia Centre, University of Melbourne, Nation Fender Katsalidis Architects
Commendation for Residential Buildings
Rozak House, Troppo Architects (Darwin)
Commendation for Urban Design
Goodwill Bridge and Maritime Museum Refurbishment, Cox Rayner Architects
Commendation for Residential Buildings
Connolly Residence, Lindsay Holland
Commendation for Heritage
Woodford Academy Conservation Works, Design 5 Architects
Colorbond Award for the Use of Steel
Shear Outback – Australian Shearers Hall of Fame, Paul Berkemeier Architect
Award for Interior Architecture
Campus MLC, Bligh Voller Nield
Lachlan Macquarie Award for Heritage
Craigee Lee, Dawson Brown Architecture
Robin Boyd Award for Residential Buildings
Lavarack Barracks, Living-In Accommodation, Bligh Voller Nield (Qld) and Troppo Architects (Qld)
Sir Zelman Cowen Award for Public Buildings
RMIT Biosciences Building, John Wardle Architects and DesignInc Melbourne
RAIA National Awards
I was honoured to lead this year’s National Awards jury. It is the third time I have had the privilege to serve the RAIA on …
Award for Sustainable Architecture
Rozak House, Troppo Architects (Darwin)
Radar
Projects
Mt Penang: Garden ParkConstruction has commenced of Garden Park, Mt Penang Parklands at Kariong on the NSW central coast near Gosford. The $8 million garden, …
Refusés
Celebrating the unbuilt. Naomi Stead reviews the impromptu salon des refusés for the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art Competition.
Delight
When Marion Mahony Griffin left Australia for the last time she returned to her family house in Chicago. Christopher Vernon outlines the recent discovery of hitherto unknown interior work within that house, which seems to evoke Marion’s hand.
Urbanity
WOHA’s entry into Singapore’s Duxton Plain Housing Competition tackles issues of ultra-high density, highrise living. Stephen Cairns and Jane Jacobs explore the competition, the entry and the issues.
Landscape
The Aboriginal Tent Embassy is one of Canberra’s most important and politically charged constructed landscapes. Christopher Vernon discusses this potent site.
Cloud
An installation by Janet Laurence in Sydney’s Qantas Club business lounge explores the space between the taxonomy of clouds and their ephemeral perceptual effects. Adrian Lahoud reviews translucidis.
Interior
Double luxury. Morris-Nunn + Associates’ new bathrooms at Hatherley House introduce sensual minimalism to Victorian Italianate grandeur. Helen Norrie reviews the sybaritic pleasures of the five-star hotel.
Exhibition
Creating a Gothic Paradise: Pugin at the Antipodes explores the influence of Puginian ideals on Australian architecture. Rory Spence reviews the exhibition and discusses this fascinating architect, suggesting that there is still much to learn from his commitments and work.
Books
A Short History of Melbourne ArchitecturePhilip Goad, Katrina Place and Patrick Bingham-Hall, Pesaro Publishing, $27.50.This slide-show history is written by architectural historians Philip Goad and …
Headlines
InternationalGlenn Murcutt held a week-long master class at the Papua New Guinea University of Technology (Unitech), which the students and staff describe as an intense …
John Horbury Hunt – Radical Architect 1838–1904
An exhibition at the Museum of Sydney in 2002 demonstrated the meticulous craft of John Horbury Hunt’s oeuvre.