Innholdsfortegnelse for September 2018 i Architecture Australia

Hot on the heels of two major international trips – first to Venice for the International Architecture Exhibition and then to New York for the AIA Conference on Architecture – it has been an absolute delight to travel around Australia participating in the Chapter Awards ceremonies. The Institute’s awards program is the nation’s most prestigious and competitive and recognizes the impact of great design on clients, on communities and on the profession. It was a great honour to help celebrate the achievements of practices across all scales of architecture. We now look forward to the National Architecture Awards later in the year. A common theme that emerged in both these international and domestic architecture festivals was that our goals – and our challenges – are shared across the country and…

Residential Houses — New The John S Chappel Award PR House by Architects Ink Award Cedar House by JPE Design Studio Award Hyde Park Townhouses by Con Bastiras Architect Award Aldgate House by Wood Marsh Architecture Commendation Tess and Michael’s House by Max Pritchard Gunner Architects Residential Houses — Alterations & Additions The John Schenk Award Millswood House by Studio-gram with Kate Russo Award Bowden Bajko House by Davis and Davis Architects Commendations Timberland by Sw-architects; MH House by Architects Ink; JR House by Architects Ink Residential — Multiple Housing The Newell Platten Award Ivy Apartments, WEST by Davis and Davis Architects Interior The Robert Dickson Award GA House by Architects Ink Award WBL Studio by Williams Burton Leopardi Award Royal Adelaide Hospital by Silver Thomas Hanley DesignInc (STHDI) Commendation…

Commercial The Ross Chisholm and Gil Nicol Award Main Roads WA – Northam Office by TAG Architects Award Freshwaters by Paul Burnham Architect Commendations Scarborough Beach Pool by Christou Design Group; The Melbourne Hotel by The Buchan Group – Perth Heritage The Margaret Pitt Morison Award The Cadogan Song School by Palassis Architects Award St Francis Xavier Cathedral Precinct, Geraldton by John Taylor Architect Commendations Notre Dame University Student Hub by Cox Architecture; Cue Community and Visitor Centre by Suzanne Hunt Architect and Stephen Carrick, architects in association Educational The Hillson Beasley Award Highgate Primary School New Teaching Building by Iredale Pedersen Hook Architects Award Wesley College Mildred Manning Science Centre by Taylor Robinson Chaney Broderick Commendations Methodist Ladies College Junior Years by Cox Architecture; South Metropolitan TAFE Murdoch Block…

Commercial The John Andrews Award Australian Federal Police Forensics and Data Centre by Hassell Award Monaro Mall, Canberra Centre by Universal Design Studio and Mather Architecture Commendation Dairy Road (3.4) by Craig Tan Architects Heritage The J S Murdoch Award Monaro Mall, Canberra Centre by Universal Design Studio and Mather Architecture Educational The Enrico Taglietti Award STEM Centre by Collins Caddaye Architects Commendation RN Robertson Building by CCJ Architects Public The Romaldo Giurgola Award Synergy by BVN Award St Christopher’s Precinct by Cox Architecture Commendation High Commission of Samoa in Australia by Cox Architecture Interior The W Hayward Morris Award Monaro Mall, Canberra Centre by Universal Design Studio and Mather Architecture Award St Christopher’s Precinct by Cox Architecture Award Synergy by BVN Commendation Capital Airport Group Office Fitout by Cox…

Fisher & Paykel’s new freestanding Classic Cooker marries heritage style with high-performance technology. Lauren Palmer, chief designer of cooking and dishwashing, product development at Fisher & Paykel, discusses why this product will be the centrepiece of the kitchen. How has the kitchen landscape changed over the past two decades? We’ve seen the kitchen shift from being a separate zone for one to being at the heart of the home. They have become much more of a multifunctional social space woven into the fabric of the living areas. In the coming years we expect to see even further integration with the rest of the home and with new technologies, which will make day-to-day life easier. Has this influenced your work as a designer? The context in which our products live is…

It is a more than usually hectic forty-eight hours at John Wardle Architects (JWA) and that is saying something. The previous evening, to a packed flag-raising soiree, the remarkable duo of Will and Garrett Huxley performed an elegiac version of Abba’s “SOS,” complete with sequined onesies. A dozen of the staff are somewhere other, installing Somewhere Other in a thirteenth-century Venetian boatshed and the directorial team will follow tomorrow. Somehow, the JWA team finds time to give me the full story on the new Monash University Learning and Teaching Building [LTB] at the Clayton Campus. SOS indeed. At 29,000 square metres of educational accommodation (and another 11,000 square metres of bus interchange, carpark and service pavilions), the $265 million LTB project offers plenty of challenge – not least to its…

This issue of Architecture Australia celebrates the outcomes of the Institute’s Chapter Awards in the lead-up to the National Architecture Awards, which will be announced in Melbourne on 1 November. A total of 264 entries have been recognized locally, with 203 now in the running for national honours. Our congratulations to all the practices and people recognized in each of the chapters and to every firm that generously presented its built work for peer assessment. This moment also presents an opportunity to reflect on recent (and upcoming) international exposure and recognition for Australian architects and architecture. The issue opens with an overview of Australian contributions to the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale – surveying the reception of the Australian pavilion, Australian architects exhibited across the Venetian archipelago and the biennale itself…

Christine Phillips: When Architecture Australia asked me to review Bunjil Place by FJMT, I invited Louis Mokak, a Djugun man from West Kimberley and current architecture student at RMIT University, to co-write with me. A building named Bunjil Place inevitably raises questions about place, Country, the role of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in contemporary Australia and how this plays out in architecture. I am a female architect and academic with a Greek Cypriot heritage, born in Melbourne, living in Melbourne. I acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which Bunjil Place stands and respectfully recognize the Elders, both past and present. Louis Mokak: I am a saltwater man and a proud Djugun man from West Kimberley. Born on Gadigal country, I grew up on Ngunnawal and Ngambri…

Commercial The Beatrice Hutton Award The Stores by Cavill Architects in association with Jasper Brown Architects Award Robina Market Hall Redevelopment by The Buchan Group (architect) and ACME (concept design architect) Commendation 88 Limestone by Gibson Architects Small Project The Hayes and Scott Award Northshore Pavilion by Anna O’Gorman Architect Award Ryan Street Library by Jonathan Goh Architect Commendations Dinosaur Canyon Outpost by Cox Architecture; UQ Architecture School Entry by M3architecture Sustainable The Harry Marks Award Mary Cairncross Scenic Reserve by Guymer Bailey Architects in collaboration with Norman Richards Building Design and Interiors Award Blackwater Aquatic Centre by Liquid Blu Architects Award The Science Place by Hassell Commendation Yeronga House by Tim Bennetton Architects Urban Design The Karl Langer Award Parklands by AAA – Arkhefield, ARM and Archipelago Architects Award…

Public The William Wardell Award Bunjil Place by FJMT Award Bendigo Hospital by Silver Thomas Hanley with Bates Smart Award North Fitzroy Library and Community Hub by GroupGSA Urban Design The Joseph Reed Award New Academic Street, RMIT University by Lyons with NMBW Architecture Studio, Harrison and White, MvS Architects and Maddison Architects Award Koondrook Wharf by Terroir Award Deakin Link by Watson Architecture and Design Commercial The Sir Osborn McCutcheon Award Barwon Water by GHDWoodhead Award Mercedes Me by Jackson Clements Burrows Award Jackalope by Carr Commendation GMHBA Stadium by Populous Heritage The John George Knight Award North Melbourne Terrace by Matt Gibson Architecture and Design Award Victorian College of the Arts former Mounted Police Stables by Kerstin Thompson Architects Award St Vincents Place Residence by B. E. Architecture…

Residential Houses — New Award House 412 by Pulina Ponnamperuma and Robust Architecture Workshop Small Project Award School-in-a-Box by Stephen Collier Architects Commendation Bayshore Park Underpass by GreenhilLi Interior Award Australian Embassy Bangkok by BVN Public Award New Wings at The Asian Civilisations Museum by GreenhilLi Commercial Commendation Kampung Admiralty by WOHA…

Although not subscribing to any particular “style,” the distinctive and playful work of Melbourne-based (but Tasmanian at heart) Austin Maynard Architects (AMA) comes from a consistent approach to thinking about design. The resulting architecture – predominantly new houses and alterations and additions to date – is clearly driven by ideas. Unorthodox concepts are fully explored in order to create something unexpected, steadily grounded in a response to brief, site and context. Co-director and founder of AMA Andrew Maynard explains that when presenting new projects to clients he’ll tell them, “We’ve fulfilled your brief, but we’re pretty confident it’s not exactly what you expect.” Mark Austin, co-director since 2009, adds, “We don’t push clients, but we give challenging ideas the opportunity to exist.” This willingness to experiment is refreshing – architecture…

As I argue in Architecture in its Continuums, the constants of architecture have been much described: forms disposed in space revealed by light; solids and cavities composed of matter that is carved, moulded, componentized or pixelated, surfaced to look hard, soft or translucent, textured or decorated, coloured raw or applied, penetrated with openings and articulated with markings that are rhythmically and proportionally arrayed; elements deployed to create a range of aural resonances; materials composed with their scented impact on the olfactory system in mind. The continuums in which architecture operates are less well documented and for the most part they have been disrupted. The basis of knowing and doing has been obscured from architects and their clients by the failure to understand that spatial thinking is the unique knowledge base…

Australia’s exhibition Repair is, by any interpretation, a unique experience among the 2018 national participants. Creative directors Mauro Baracco and Louise Wright of Baracco and Wright Architects with artist Linda Tegg filled the Australian pavilion with more than ten thousand plants from Victoria’s Western Plains Grasslands, which are sustained by a highly technical lighting installation. Irish landscape architect Dermot Foley found they had “curated an environment unlike any of the other pavilions at this year’s biennale.” Australian architect Justin Mallia described the exhibition as “an elegant and visually striking composition” that is “eloquently composed and engagingly experiential.” The grassland installation is accompanied by an interpretive two-channel video projection of fifteen Australian projects. “Each film is screened once throughout the day with an intermittent dimming of lights,” Mallia explained in his…

Commercial The Sir Arthur G Stephenson Award International House Sydney by Tzannes Award Barangaroo House by Collins and Turner Award Biripi Clinic by Kaunitz Yeung Architecture Commendations The Beehive by Raffaello Rosselli Architect with Luigi Rosselli Architects; 333 George Street by Grimshaw with Crone Educational The William E Kemp Award Macquarie University Incubator by Architectus Award St Patrick’s Primary School, Lochinvar – Stage 1 by SHAC Award UTS Blackfriars Children’s Centre by DJRD with Lacoste + Stevenson Architects Commendations The Waranara Early Learning Centre for the City of Sydney by Fox Johnston; Bellevue Hill Public School by GroupGSA Public The Sulman Medal Punchbowl Mosque by Candalepas Associates Award Joynton Avenue Creative Centre by Peter Stutchbury Architecture for City of Sydney Commendations Barangaroo Ferry Wharf by Cox Architecture; Coogee Beach Centre…

Commercial The Colin Philp Award krakani lumi by Taylor and Hinds Architects with the Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania Award Mac 01 by Circa Morris-Nunn Architects Commendation Shorehouse Addition by Jaws Architects Enduring Award Friendly Beaches Lodge (1992) by Latona Masterman and Associates Urban Design Commendation University of Tasmania City Apartments by Terroir and Fender Katsalidis, in association Interior The Alexander North Award 105 Macquarie Street Apartments by Preston Lane Award Jakadjari Hair by Preston Lane Commendation Kingston Beach Dental by BYA Architects Small Project The Peter Willmott Award krakani lumi by Taylor and Hinds Architects with the Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania Award Kangaroo Bay Pavilion by Preston Lane Award Triabunna Gatehouse by Gilby and Brewin Architecture Residential Houses — New The Esmond Dorney Award Bruny Island Hideaway by…

Commercial The Peter Dermoudy Award Zuccoli Plaza by The Buchan Group Public The Reverend John Flynn Award ASTC Garden Cemetery Chapel by Susan Dugdale and Associates Small Project The Yali McNamara Award Charles Darwin University – ACIKE Ceremonial Space by Hodgkison Steel COLORBOND® Award Kilgariff Entry and Fence by Susan Dugdale and Associates Enduring Award Bowali Visitors Centre, Kakadu (1993) by Troppo Architects in association with Glenn Murcutt and Associates Chapter Prizes Tracy Memorial Award ASTC Garden Cemetery Chapel by Susan Dugdale and Associates People’s Choice Award ASTC Garden Cemetery Chapel by Susan Dugdale and Associates Emerging Architect Prize Miriam Wallace, Susan Dugdale and Associates Student Prize Katherine Mackay, Charles Darwin University President’s Prize Sally Thomas AC…

Green Square Town Centre, on the southern edge of the City of Sydney, has us all holding our collective, professional breath. The subject of unprecedented scrutiny in terms of urban design, public infrastructure and “design excellence,” it is now one of the fastest growing development sites in the world. As each piece is completed, the sum of the parts is being progressively laid bare. We will soon know whether a flourishing urban culture has translated an industrial expanse into a mixed and newly energized part of the city – or whether business as usual prevails and we have simply acquired more of the vapid lip-service of the early twenty-first-century property boom. An inept urban structure and some truly ghastly urban housing have been a devastating beginning. Yet one exception is…

In 2016 I wrote in Architecture Australia: “The city campus can be an effective agent in the process of urban change and can add to the cultural landscape of the city.” (“The City Campus and Urban Agency,” July/August issue.) The point being that because a university campus controls a whole precinct of buildings, including the streets and open space, it has the ability to act in the broader public interest with respect to urban design. The article highlighted major new works at the University of Technology Sydney and at Melbourne’s RMIT through the New Academic Street (NAS) project by Lyons with NMBW Architecture Studio, Harrison and White, MvS Architects and Maddison Architects. At the time I had not visited NAS, as construction had barely begun, but now it is finished.…