Architecture Australia, November 2009
Architecture AustraliaProvocative, informative and engaging discussion of the best built works and the issues and events that matter.
Comment
Practice
TENSILE FACADES Realizing the living machine. Rowan Murray and Peter Bottero of Ronstan Tensile Architecture discuss the opportunities of tensile facades. Whitten Oval, redevelopment by …
Reflection
Drawing out the awards
Foreword
Towards a national urban policy agenda
Features
Public Architecture
Sir Zelman Cowen Award for Public ArchitectureNational Portrait Gallery Johnson Pilton Walker JURY CITATIONCanberra’s Parliamentary Axis holds Australia’s most important example of a monumental civic …
Sustainable Architecture
National Award for Sustainable ArchitectureVs1/Sa Water Hassell JURY CITATIONVS1/SA Water is a substantial new commercial building on Adelaide’s Victoria Square. A new landscaped plaza provides …
Small Project Architecture
National Award for Small Project ArchitecturePolygreen Bellemo & Cat JURY CITATIONPolygreen – a compact new residence in a laneway of old warehouses in a northern …
Enduring Architecture
25 Year Award for Enduring ArchitectureSidney Myer Music Bowl Yuncken Freeman Brothers, Griffiths and Simpson, and Gregory Burgess Architect JURY CITATIONOne of the great tent-like …
International Architecture
Jørn Utzon Award for International ArchitectureTKTS Booth and Redevelopment of Duffy Square, New York Choi Ropiha, Perkins Eastman and Pksb JURY CITATIONThe jury especially liked …
Urban Design
Walter Burley Griffin Award for Urban DesignArmory Wharf Precinct Hargreaves Associates, Lahz Nimmo Architects and Lacoste + Stevenson Architects JURY CITATIONThe Sydney Olympic Park is …
Interior Architecture
Emil Sodersten Award for Interior ArchitectureMelbourne Recital Centre and Mtc Theatre Project Ashton Raggatt McDougall JURY CITATIONLocated across a wide street from the sombre bluestone …
Commercial Architecture
Harry Seidler Award for Commercial ArchitectureIvy Woods Bagot with Merivale Group and Hecker Phelan & Guthrie JURY CITATIONThe popular palaces of culture have, in recent …
Heritage Architecture
Lachlan Macquarie Award for HeritageSt Paul’s Cathedral, Melbourne, Conservation of the Fabric Falkinger Andronas, Architects, Heritage Consultants JURY CITATIONMarvellous Melbourne, like Chicago, was one of …
Jury Overview
Jury Overview
Steel Architecture
Colorbond Award for Steel ArchitectureSnowy Mountains House James Stockwell Architect JURY CITATIONRugged – bleak – windswept – alpine: the Snowy Mountains is one extremity of …
The Critics Respond
So what does it all mean? Philip Goad and Fiona Nixon contemplate the outcomes of this year’s awards.
Residential Architecture
Robin Boyd Award for Residential Architecture – Houses Freshwater house. Image: John Gollings Freshwater house. Image: John Gollings Freshwater house. Image: John Gollings Freshwater House …
Radar
‘It takes a catastrophe to refocus people’
As the economic crisis deepens we continue our project of looking back at the architecture industry in past crises.
Headlines
News and nuance
Competitions
UTS BroadwayWinning entry by Denton Corker Marshall. Laura Harding reviews the recent competition for the new building for the UTS Faculty of Engineering and Information …
Conference
Re:hab
Event
Eat Green Design
Installation
Urban Islands
Exhibitions
Mapping SydneyOverview of Mapping Sydney, with its rear wall of postcards.Map of Sydney: Avian Surnames, by Kate Sweetapple.Sydney Letters: An Alphabetic Correspondence, or the Beginnings …
Interview
Carme and the city
Biennale
Now + When
AA Roundtable 01
Stories of the downturn: Embodied knowledge and future possibilities.