Architecture Australia, July 2003
Architecture AustraliaProvocative, informative and engaging discussion of the best built works and the issues and events that matter.
Comment
Foreword
IF EVER WE needed a reminder of why we became architects, and why we continue to fight our way through the emotional, professional and economic …
Reflection
IT IS WITH GREAT sadness that we record the passing of Peter Johnson, architect and educator, who died on 8 May this year. (A tribute …
Obituary: Peter - Richard Norman Johnson
Educator, practitioner, connoisseur, and much more. Jennifer Taylor recalls the charms, the commitments and the many entwined lives of Peter Johnson.
Obituary: Barry Patten
Neil Clerehan recalls the full life of Barry Patten, one of our most successful corporate architects.
Obituary: David Moore
Anthony Browell remembers David Moore, one of Australia’s most significant photographers.
Features
Public works
Donaldson + warn’s new senior campus at mindarie builds on western australia’s tradition of fine public works to develop a school which advances the architecture of education.
Docklands update
The first public spaces at melbourne’s docklands are now accessible. Scott drake overviews the precinct, while eli giannini draws on her own experience with the site to comment on its complex history and possible futures.
Zigzag cabin
Perched on a steep slope in the NSW bush, Drew Heath’s zigzag cabin is an escape from, and challenge to, urban convenience.
A small brutalist castle
Peter Tonkin and Ellen Woolley’s tough yet refined house for themselves opens up debate about the relationship between art and architecture.
Urbanity and the campus
GPN3, by Peddle Thorp + Donovan Hill, is an accomplished building which seeks to have significant urban effects on the St Lucia campus of the University of Queensland.
Shelter
Harmer Architecture’s latest mausoleum is a small, subtle shelter on the edge of Mildura.
Radar
Headlines
INTERNATIONALBAU International’s winning competition entry for Sustainable Village for the Zhejiang Province Electrical Power Company in Ninghai, China.Ashkan Mostaghim and Theodora Alana Kioussis’s shortlisted entry …
Installation
Construction drawings 02 - jonathan dady’s latest installation uses the idea of drawing to negotiate between art, architecture and the public realm. Review by justine clark.
Projects
TRACES OF BUSANBlack Kosloff Knott’s entry to Korea’s Busan Tower Complex ideas competition celebrates the diversity of the city – spiritual, physical and abstract. The …
Awards
VICTORIA 01 Victoria 02 Victoria 03 Victoria 04 Victoria 05 Victoria 06 Victoria 07 Victoria 08 Victoria 09 Victoria 10 Victoria 11 Victoria 12 Victoria 13 Victoria 14 Victoria 15 Victoria 16 Victoria 17 Victoria 18 Victoria 19 Victoria 20 Victoria 21 Victoria 22 Victoria 23 Victoria …
Books
BY-PRODUCT-TOKYO Nigel Bertram, Shane Murray, Marika Neustupny. RMIT University Press, 2003. $27.50. By-Product-Tokyo is an outcome of a research project instigated by Shane Murray, lead …