Architecture Australia, September 2023
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Dossier
Reflections on transforming the city: A conversation with Kees Christiaanse
Dutch urban designer and architect Kees Christiaanse speaks with Andy Fergus about creativity in making urban rules, the supervision of large-scale urban transformation projects, and the next generation of urban practitioners.
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Masterplan/microplan: Shaping the urban realm at every scale
Projects
Escala by Six Degrees
A carefully choreographed mixed-use development disrupts the existing pattern in Melbourne’s Docklands by introducing fine-grain detail to a large-scale project.
The Pavilion Performing Arts Centre Sutherland
The inventive refurbishment of an existing performance venue extends the community’s opportunities and opens up the growing suburb’s civic heart.
Dairy Road Masterplan
On a site east of Canberra and adjacent to wetlands, a collaborative team whose process inverts the “master” plan paradigm is gradually designing a diverse neighbourhood in a restored landscape.
Masterplanning in the form of a ‘yarn’
Christine Phillips considers the masterplan for the former mining town of Jabiru in the World Heritage-listed Kakadu National Park, where Traditional Custodians driving the design process.
More articles
University of Tasmania, Inveresk Campus
The masterplan for the University of Tasmania’s campus relocation in Launceston, drawn up in collaboration with multiple stakeholder groups, aims to reuse existing industrial structures, stitch new buildings into the site, regenerate the landscape and embrace the community.
Boola Katitjin by Lyons et al
Part of Murdoch University’s 20-year masterplan, a new, monumental mass-timber building expands the character of the bush campus and provides spaces geared toward contemporary, collaborative learning methods.
5 Easy Street by DFJ Architects
Sitting in “productive tension” with the development’s original ambitions, the fourth stage of Habitat demonstrates the flexibility of its masterplan.
Designing for Fragility: 13 Stories of Humanitarian Architects
Edited by Esther Charlesworth and John Fien, Design for Fragility shares stories of architects working in the rapidly growing field of humanitarian architecture, while reviewer Kali Marnane reminds us of the need for new models of education to teach the skills this field requires.