Architecture Australia, July 2006
Architecture AustraliaProvocative, informative and engaging discussion of the best built works and the issues and events that matter.
Provocative, informative and engaging discussion of the best built works and the issues and events that matter.
Drew on the Opera House In 2000, Jørn Utzon said, “If you suddenly make windows in that platform it becomes an office building with something …
Vale Ronald Lyon 1920–2006
A swimming pool made of bubbles. Tristram Carfrae of Arup outlines the engineering factors which led to the competition-winning Beijing Olympic Swimming Centre, by PTW, China State Construction and Engineering Co and Arup.
CRITICS, GOVERNMENT, ARCHITECTUREArchitecture concerns buildings as objects and spaces, but it is also about the structures through which these objects and spaces are funded, commissioned, …
WHY ARCHITECTURE MATTERSWithin this journal of record on Australian architecture there is a story in the background, one which lies hidden behind the images of …
Tower urbanism. The Urban Workshop, by John Wardle Architects, NHArchitecture and Hassell in joint venture, collects histories of its site, the city and the tower into an intense constellation of forms and ideas.
The swirling canopy and clearly organized programme of the Q1 podium, by Innovarchi, make a significant contribution to the urban environment of Surfers Paradise.
A new commercial tower by Foster and Partners with Hassell responds to changing work patterns with large, flexible floor plates and a dramatic atrium.
Tight budgets, constrained sites and minimal spaces. Student apartment buildings by Hayball Leonard Stent eke architectural potential out of difficult briefs and prosaic construction methods.
Tonkin Zulaikha Greer’s addition to the Scots Church Assembly Building constructs a lively encounter between old and new, offering an articulate challenge to current conservation orthodoxy.
Poised above a shopping centre at Broadbeach on the Gold Coast, Air is a sophisticated residential tower by Ian Moore Architects.
Newman college
East darling harbour
Melbourne mid century
Micro-macro city
The future is now!
RAIA State Awards
The utzon effect
INTERNATIONALLab architecture studio has won a competition to design the Xianlin Commercial Centre, a four-level retail complex in Nanjing, China // Tokyo-based Australian firm Riccardo …