Architecture
Architecture
If you’re a regular on the Melbourne foodie scene, chances are you’re familiar with the work of local practice, Figureground – fast emerging as a studio with a hospitable approach to community.
Technology, craft and materials combine to create an experiential palette for designers and architects alike.
In an era when Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Louis Kahn et al completed significant commissions, Charles Correa returned to India to set up his practice. Correa discovered a resonance with Indian tradition and a call to discover a distinctive architectural language.
Small scale and emerging architectural practices from around Victoria were praised for their ingenuity at the eighth ArchiTeam Awards on Wednesday night, at Melbourne’s No Vacancy Gallery.
Perth architect and HASSELL director Peter Lee was awarded the Architects Board of Western Australia annual Board Award for his ongoing contribution to the architectural profession.
Amelyn Ng conducts a series of interviews for ADR's Emerging Conversations, which aims to demystify the uncertainties surrounding post-architecture school life and establish an accessible, heartening platform for recent graduates and students of architecture across Australia.
The ‘crowd-sourced’ multi-residential project is emerging as an alternative approach in an increasingly impenetrable Australian housing market. Among the first was Breathe Architecture’s much-celebrated The Commons, with the beleaguered Nightingale project looking to follow suit.
A swag of Australian designers and architects have received industry acclaim and global recognition for their work on sustainable interiors during this year’s International Green Interior Awards, held recently in Sydney.
The $45.5 million dollar project is the largest ever undertaken by Geelong City Council, and announces ARM’s particular brand of distinctive, unconventional architecture to the regional centre.
ADR contributor Sara Kirby speaks with recently appointed Victorian government architect Jill Garner about the most fulfilling projects in her career, her new role and her views on Melbourne as Australia's "only real residential major city".
Technology is here to help not hinder and Anthony Caruana, editor of MacWorld, has compiled a list of eight essential apps for architects and designers that will make life easier with the touch of a finger.
This apartment, within the historically significant Foy and Gibson warehouse complex, had over time succumbed to a series of dubious conversions. Breathe Architecture reignites the space while sparking connections with the past.
Chris Bosse, principal of LAVA, and Eva Krane, cultural attaché at bleux design studio, share their notes from this year's World Architecture Festival in Singapore.
The Double Courtyard House by Vokes and Peters is an exercise in drawing the extraordinary out of the ordinary. The challenge was to find solutions to a complex client brief that required a mix of public and private space, while simultaneously anchoring an elevated building and delivering expansive, yet controlled, views.
The Abstract is an ambitious interior architecture exhibition project exploring unorthodox spatial realms of reading rooms, designed by Monash University Interior graduates in collaboration with Matthew Bird of Studiobird. The exhibition reinvents the tradition of a reading room environment within a gallery context to promote prestigious academic journals with the aim to engage early career academics to the realties and benefits of publishing.
Fashion and architectural worlds will collide this Saturday as Monash University students present 11 remarkable outfits inspired by the city’s interiors at MPavilion.
The winners of the Australian Institute of Architects’ National Architecture Awards were announced at a ceremony in Brisbane last week, with ARM and emerging architects Liz Walsh and Alex Nielson and Jesse Bennett Architect among the exemplary practices awarded.
As the first studies for Seascape were for “a bed and a fire and a cave to fit them in”, New Zealand architect Andrew Patterson must surely have contemplated Henry David Thoreau’s maxim: “Consider first how slight a shelter is absolutely necessary.”
“The design was intended to preserve the past and provide an expertly crafted and intelligently designed space,“ says RotheLowman project leader Geoff Cowap.
The stellar project is Casba, a medium-density infill development in Sydney’s inner west, designed by SJB in conjunction with Billard Leece Partnership, with interiors by BKH.
The Dune House, located in the coastal suburb of Omaha, is an hour north of Auckland. The client’s brief to Fearon Hay was for “a house by the beach, not a beach house”, and the result is certainly uniquely executed.
Urban convenience and million dollar views make apartment living desirable, but how do we replicate the intrinsic natural benefits of green space above ground?
Working within limited footprints and restrictive spaces, small projects say much about the art of architecture and creative space making.
Chenchow Little Architects has found solutions that are both practical and delightful in this Sydney apartment, with the brief calling for a sense of surprise and a space to display the client’s vast art collection.
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