Architecture Australia, January 2004
Architecture AustraliaProvocative, informative and engaging discussion of the best built works and the issues and events that matter.
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Foreword
THE YEAR OF the Built Environment 2004 (YBE) is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for architects and architecture to put up or shut up. This sentiment may …
Reflection
ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF ARCHITECTURE IN AUSTRALIAFLICKING BACK THROUGH one hundred years of Institute journals gives an extraordinary sense of both the familiar and the …
One hundred years of discourse
Architecture Australia begins this year’s centenary celebrations with an overview of the magazine’s history. Philip Goad reflects on the challenges and realities of recording Australian architecture.
Letters
REVIEWING THE GARDEN OF AUSTRALIAN DREAMSThe last case of a garden being censored was in 1620 in Heidelberg. There, the hortus palatinus designed by Salomon …
Features
Small building, large building
Small building, large building
Somers ‘shed’
Somers ‘shed’
Watering sydney
Watering sydney
‘A simple gesture across a piece of land’
Simplicity, beauty and site are all positioned as complex, unstable things in the house at Lake Connewarre, by Kerstin Thompson Architects.
Landscape, the fabric of architecture
Moving between the monumental and the vernacular, FJMT’s new complex for Edith Cowan University’s Joondalup Campus negotiates the ground between landscape and community.
Radar
Rejudged
Judging architecture
Exhibition
Sound and light humour
Exhibition
Watching the animals
Projects
CUSTOMS HOUSELacoste + Stevenson, together with PTW Architects and Tanner Associates, are undertaking the refurbishment and renovation of the Customs House at Circular Quay. The …
Books
ACCLIMATISATION: ARCHITECTURE AT THE TOP END OF AUSTRALIADavid Bridgman. Royal Australian Institute of Architects, 2003. $38.50.Having just returned to living in the tropics of north …
Essay
Aboriginal housing has the state of the art improved?
Headlines
INTERNATIONAL Australian War Memorial, London, Tonkin Zulaikha Greer and Janet Laurence. At a Rememberance Day dedication service, the Queen and Prime Minister John Howard unveiled …