Architecture Australia, May 2004
Architecture AustraliaProvocative, informative and engaging discussion of the best built works and the issues and events that matter.
Comment
Foreword
IT IS EASY TO EXTOL the virtues of modern architecture; as professionals we are committed to its conception and delivery every day of our working …
Reflection
AA 1904–2004 In the early decades of last century the magazines that would become Architecture Australia brought a wide range of material on fine art, …
Letters
MORE ON CRITICISMNaomi Stead’s thoughtful piece on architectural criticism generalizes three longstanding complaints about the practice, one of which is that criticism is not sufficiently …
Sydney Opera House
In this story from the Architecture Australia archives, Cameron Bruhn speaks with Jan Utzon about new works at the Sydney Opera House.
Features
Smart uniform
Bates smart’s new south wales police headquarters at parramatta provides a polished new corporate image for the police and the government.
Into the cauldron
Enormous yet intimate, suncorp stadium by hok sport + venue + event, with pdt architects, provides a robust new home for brisbane rugby.
The Ogilvie house
‘Hugging the earth tightly’, Kerry Hill Architects’ recent Sunshine Coast house presents a rich response to place, while offering an engaging alternative to Queensland traditions.
Antarctic Innovation
The new living quarters at the Australian Antarctic Division’s (AAD) Davis Station.
Concrete butterfly
Carefully framing landscape and views, Inarc’s Studley Park house draws on its context – natural and constructed – while challenging notions of neighbourhood character.
Radar
Headlines
INTERNATIONALBligh Voller Nield’s design for a new stadium in Venice. Buro and Holt’s design for the 14-storey Moonbeam building in Beijing.Denton Corker Marshall have seven …
Exhibition
Part of the enormous stephenson & turner archive is revealed in a recent exhibition at the state library of victoria. Hannah lewi considers the role of the exhibition and the archive.
Projects
ANUm3architecture have designed bicycle shelters to sit outside the Australian National University’s Burton and Garran Hall. The proposal promotes cycling by siting the structures at …
Response
Picking up naomi stead’s discussion of criticism, julian raxworthy explores the legacy of reyner banham – one of the twentieth century’s most influential critics – to argue for engaged and ‘interested’ criticism.
Competition
University of Sydney campus 2010 competition
Books
DESIGN RESEARCH Peter Downton. RMIT University Press, 2003. $27.50. Is design research? Peter Downton thinks so and in this scholarly and philosophical work he argues …
Event
Matter and making, pleasure and ethics, architecture and the everyday. Maryam Gusheh reviews two recent symposiums which used the work of keynote speaker Marco Frascari to canvas a range of issues.