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Revisited: Marie Short House (1974) by Glenn Murcutt
Jan 9, 2023 — Built in 1974, just four years after Glenn Murcutt began practising architecture, this farmhouse in Kempsey in northern New South Wales is a seminal work, much admired both in Australia and abroad. Modest, flexible and adaptable to climate, it endures as a model for responsive, responsible design. The house comprises two pavilions, one for ...
One Central Park - ArchitectureAu
Aug 4, 2014 — The high-profile One Central Park project features a thirty-three-metre cantilevered sky garden and mirror installation. Artwork: Halo by Jennifer Turpin and Michaelie Crawford. Image: Simon Wood. In 1988, American hip-hop group Public Enemy released its seminal song “Don’t Believe the Hype.”. Well-known for its politically charged lyrics ...
Sydney Opera House: an ‘unrepeatable’ masterpiece
Nov 22, 2023 — The Sydney Opera House started with what CEO Louise Heron described as a “big bang of creativity” and over the past 50 years (and more), its story has been wrapped in wonder, myth, drama, and perhaps most importantly, the building of a nation.. On the 69th anniversary of the announcement of an international competition to design a national opera house, SOH assembled a legion of architects ...
Australian Architecture: A History | ArchitectureAu
Apr 19, 2022 — Jackson’s 2000 book Australian Architecture Now, co-authored with Chris Johnson, was a sequel, of sorts, to Jennifer Taylor’s Australian Architecture Since 1960. Taylor herself was picking up from J. M. Freeland’s definitive Australian Architecture: A History (published 1968). And so we come full circle, with Jackson resetting the updates ...
The best Australian houses of 2021 - ArchitectureAu
Nov 5, 2021 — The best house in the new house category was Night Sky by Peter Stutchbury Architecture. The house was designed to prioritize “the desires of a disabled person to connect to the universe and galaxy,” said the jury. “This work is unusual in its forms and expressions but it is born from a deep regard for and understanding of certain ...
Nature as inspiration: Bio-based materials for sustainable …
Jul 11, 2022 — Image: Tom Roe. Architects are in a unique position today to facilitate a global push toward a circular economy with lower embodied carbon within the construction industry using bio-based materials. For centuries, human beings used natural materials to construct our built environments. Timber, bamboo, earth and straw were all renewable natural ...
Construction starts on Melbourne’s Suburban Rail Loop
Mar 3, 2024 — Construction has now commenced on Melbourne’s Suburban Rail Loop East, in a project that will see Box Hill and Cheltenham connected via a new rail line and six underground stations.. The train stations include Box Hill, Burwood, Glen Waverley, Monash, Clayton and Cheltenham. Of the six stations, Box Hill, Glen Waverley, Clayton, and Cheltenham already have existing train stations, and upon ...
Australian projects recognised in International Architecture Awards
Sep 23, 2024 — The Chicago Athenaeum and European Centre for Architecture have announced the winners of its 2024 International Architecture Awards.. Seven Australian projects are among more than 130 awarded projects from around the world, spanning across 33 categories. McGregor Coxall received two awards: one for the Drying Green Park with Chrofi and a second for the Grampians (Gariwerd) Peaks Trail Stage 2 ...
Is architecture art? | ArchitectureAu
Jul 25, 2016 — The rapidly accelerating pavilion phenomenon epitomizes a larger trend of interdisciplinary crossover between architecture and the visual arts, in which the exhibition of architecture as art in visual arts venues is mirrored by the popularity of visual artists using architectural means, from actual buildings to physical and digital modelling and including explicit reference to architecture as ...