Tag: AA Unbuilt Archive
Refraction and densification of Saigon’s narrow-houses
Taking out the AA Prize for Unbuilt Work in 2012 was an RMIT University student project that explores informal urbanism and bottom-up tactics in making a city.
Remedying Port Moresby’s urban housing crisis
The winning submission to the 2010 AA Prize for Unbuilt Work, by Michael White, “is an inspirational proposal” that ” demonstrates the contributory possibilities of architecture.”
If cars were banned, what would happen to the leftover roads?
Tribe Studio’s winning submission to the 2009 AA Prize for Unbuilt work speculates that in 2050, private vehicles would be banned, leaving behind spaces ripe for new building types.
A nutty, affectionate homage to Peter Corrigan
Michael Spooner’s winning submission to the 2008 AA Prize for Unbuilt Work whimsically reimagines Edmond and Corrigan’s RMIT Building 8 as a boat.
A ‘rippling’ art gallery between railway tracks
Deakin University student Martine Merrylees won the 1998 AA Prize for Unbuilt Work for a fourth-year concept to slip a glass sheathed art gallery between railway tracks at Geelong’s train station.
The contorted concept that split the 1997 AA Prize jury
Nicolas Koulouras’s Knot Building proposal was “unusually creative attempt to literally tie up architecture’s unravelled strands of theory at the end of the millennium.”
A house of sensual experiences
Alice Hampson and Sheona Thomson’s winning submission to the 1995 AA Prize for Unbuilt Work explores ideas about intimacy, rituals, emotions and privacy.
The subversive ‘sham’ that won the 1994 AA Unbuilt Prize
We revisit the winner of the second annual AA Prize for Unbuilt Work, awarded in 1994 to “belligerent but exciting” scheme that challenges conventional expectations.
A simple and obvious idea to transform the Sydney Opera House
We revisit the inaugural winner of the AA Prize for Unbuilt Work, awarded in 1993 to a scheme that proposed to transform and enhance “the most significant urban site in the country.”
