Architecture Australia, January 2003
Architecture AustraliaProvocative, informative and engaging discussion of the best built works and the issues and events that matter.
Comment
Foreword
Lifting architecture to a level of national pride and national importance is the challenge facing the profession and the RAIA over the next few years. …
Letters
AWARDS PROCESSThe workings of the 2002 National Awards Jury, as explained by chair Ed Haysom in the last issue (AA November/December 2002), leave a lot …
A. S. Hook Address
Brit Andresen, the RAIA’s 2002 Gold Medallist, outlines the ideas that drove her practice, teaching and research partnership with Peter O’Gorman.
Features
Arts and Iconicity
The dramatic forms of the malthouse development, by wood marsh, provide a new home and a new image for three arts institutions. Review by sandra kaji-o’grady.
Pattern and Event
Jones coulter young’s latest building for curtin continues to develop the campus palette while exploring the university as a site of urbanity and sociability. Review by lee stickells.
Oceanic Pool
The latest incarnation of the andrew (boy) charlton pool, by lippmann associates, celebrates sydney’s culture of sun, body and landscape. Gevork hartoonian does three laps.
Design Centre – Tasmania
Launceston’s new ‘living room’, by David Travalia, Richard Leplastrier and team, is set to become the centre of the city’s cultural and intellectual life.
Foliage
Lyons’ new Botany Wing at the University of Melbourne is a dense, four-sided material debate that optimistically brings the lessons of the suburbs to the centre.
Radar
Headlines
InternationalLigare Lunette, highly commended in the ar+d Emerging Architecture Awards.Sean Godsell Associates’ Peninsula House, winner in the ar+d Emerging Architecture Awards. Photo Earl Carter. “C:Drive”, …
Preview
Federation square the p’s and q’s of a major project
Biennale
What next?
Community
Bocce pavilion
Urbanity
Diversity and the west
Projects
Warragamba DamLahz Nimmo Architects and landscape architects Spackman + Mossop have formed a joint venture, LNSM, for the Warragamba Dam Master Plan, Visitor Information Centre …
Books
De-placing difference: architecture, culture and imaginative geographyEdited by Samer Akkach. Centre for Asian and Middle Eastern Architecture, The University of Adelaide, 2002, $45.This serious, scholarly …
Event
Justine Clark reflects on last year’s symposium, and Peter Myers makes a riposte against the theme.