Architecture Australia, May 2006
Architecture AustraliaProvocative, informative and engaging discussion of the best built works and the issues and events that matter.
Comment
Reflection
DIVERSITYOne of the most compelling things about architecture is the many diverse ways one can engage with it as both a discipline and a profession. …
Practice
Wicked details
Obituary
Vale Ronald James Voller 1915–2006
Letters
Places to go
Obituary
Vale harry seidler 1923–2006
Foreword
FAREWELL TO HARRY, GOODBYE FROM BOBI’m proud to have called Harry Seidler a friend. He was a man of considerable complexity – of legendary talent, …
Features
Max Webber Library
FJMT’s new library for Blacktown seeks to draw in the community while also expressing the building’s civic function.
Adding to the Opera House
Jørn Utzon’s Western Colonnade, the first addition to the exterior of the Sydney Opera House, provides an opportunity for reconciliation and a reminder that the building is a living place as well as an icon.
Narellan Library
Group GSA’s Narellan Library and Community Centre is a generous beginning to a new civic centre in an area undergoing rapid change.
Centennial Park Amenities
<b>REVIEW</b> Helen Norrie<b>PHOTOGRAPHY</b> Brett Boardman Lahz Nimmo’s new amenity blocks for Sydney’s Centennial Park.Lahz Nimmo’s Centennial Park Amenities carefully sites five similar blocks through the …
Matter
<b>REVIEW</b> Paul Walker<b>PHOTOGRAPHY</b> Dianna SnapeCox Architects and Planners’ new building at Chisholm Institute’s Dandenong Campus juxtaposes a taut, abstract external skin with the insistent materiality …
Clarence Family Day Care
<b>REVIEW</b> Julia Gatley<b>PHOTOGRAPHY</b> Ray JoyceMore Froebel than Mondrian, 1+2 Architecture’s latest project gives civic presence to a small building that celebrates play and childhood.The bold …
Radar
Projects
PARAMOUNT HOTELTony Owen NDM’s short-listed tender submission for the Parramatta Hotel, left, aimed to follow the model of a classic Sydney Art Deco pub; not …
Headlines
INTERNATIONALPeddle Thorp Architects has been appointed by PT Triadi, Bali, to work on the Australia Bali Memorial Eye Centre as part of a design and …
Demolition
In praise of minor modernism farewell, fitzroy gardens toilets
Exhibition
Drawing through architecture
Exhibition
Possible worlds exhibition
Event – Possible worlds symposium
Peter Scriver reviews this year’s Architecture Symposium at the Adelaide Festival of the Arts, which gave the opportunity to reflect on radical projections of the future.
Books
BLIGH VOLLER NIELD Introduction by Joseph Rykwert and Xing Ruan. China Architecture and Building Press, 2005. $ 70. A scrapbook of text, images, technical drawings, …