Architecture Australia, September 2005
Architecture AustraliaProvocative, informative and engaging discussion of the best built works and the issues and events that matter.
Comment
Foreword
Securing the past and the future
Reflection
The pleasures of suburbia
Essay
Suburban transformations in the postmetropolis
Photo essay
Suburban frontiers
Features
Becoming suburban
Taking advantage of global networks and blurred boundaries between suburb and city, Archibett’s Brisbane Veterinary Specialist Centre is a productive addition to ideas of the ‘local’.
Sustainability and the supermarket
Supermarkets are rarely at the forefront of social and environmental sustainability, but mcgauran giannini soon’s building for coles, gisborne, is leading the way.
Reclaiming housing
WELL-KNOWN FOR ELEGANT BESPOKE HOUSES, ALEX POPOV AND ASSOCIATES ARE NOW BRINGING THEIR EXPERIENCE TO BEAR ON MEDIUM DENSITY HOUSING PROJECTS FOR A BROADER MARKET.<b>REVIEW</b> …
The new backyard
OWEN AND VOKES EXPLORE THE POTENTIAL OF THE SUBURBAN BACKYARD IN TWO RATHER DIFFERENT OUTDOOR ROOMS, WHICH BOTH EXTEND THE INTERIOR AND GATHER IN THEIR …
Lyons
The pursuit of ideas
Radar
Awards
The second instalment of the RAIA State Awards in the lead up to the Nationals in Sydney on 27 October.
Exhibition
Conrad gargett architecture 12 decades of design
Books
UNDERSTANDING SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE Terry Williamson, Antony Radford and Helen Bennetts. Spon Press, 2002. $64. This is a well written, unusual and unusually interesting book. Its …
Headlines
INTERNATIONAL 11 September was Solar House Day, organized by the Australian and New Zealand Solar Energy Society with support from the Australian Greenhouse Office • …
History
From correspondent to crucible
Event
Topophilia and topophobia
Reflections on human habitat in the twentieth century
Biennale
The flood
Competition
100 forests/100 gardens
Canberra international arboretum and gardens