Connect Sydney / Facet Studio
Architects: Facet Studio
Location: Sydney NSW, Australia
Design Team: Yoshihito Kashiwagi, Olivia Shih, Mariona Espinet, Woraphin Lowpakulkiat
Project Year: 2012
Project Area: 150.0 sqm
Photographs: Andrew Chung
Flinders Centre for Innovation in Cancer / Woodhead
Architects: Woodhead
Location: Flinders Dr, Bedford Park SA, Australia
Project Year: 2012
Photographs: Steve Rendoulis
The Hive Apartment / ITN Architects
Architects: ITN Architects
Location: Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Project Architect: Zvi Belling
Project Team: Silas Gibson; Jenny Cham; Atsushi Kubota
Builder: Kalitek Constructions
Engineer: Meyer Consulting Engineers
Building Surveyor: Building Strategies
Graffiti Artist: Prowla – RDC Crew Melbourne
Photographs: Patrick Rodriguez, Courtesy of Zvi Belling
Sunken Courtyard / Gestalten
Architects: Gestalten
Location: Melbourne VIC, Australia
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: Nils Koenning
Brisbane Street Additions / Rad Architecture
Architects: Rad Architecture
Location: Brisbane St, Perth, Australia
Design Team: Lynn Churchill, Craig Riley, Patrick Hubble, Kelwin Wong
Photographs: Andrew Pritchard Photography
Brisbane Indesign Installation / BVN Architecture
In collaboration with Space Furniture, BVN Architecture designed this unique installation for the 2012 Bisbane Indesign. ‘The Project’ was inspired by the theme, Exploring the Common Thread, and resulted in a spectrum of color expressed through cotton yarn poised in a frozen geometric form. Drawn under tension the geometry is justified to fit within the constraints of the existing spatial condition.
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Annandale House / CO-AP
Architects: CO-AP
Location: Annandale NSW 2038, Australia
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 296.85 sqm
Photographs: Ross Honeysett
House Awards 2012
Celebrating Australia’s best residential architecture, excellence has been rewarded by ‘House Awards’, an annual program, in eight categories, with the best architecturally designed house receiving the premier award of ‘Australian House of the Year’. Set within a historic farming property in Tasmania, Shearer’s Quarters by John Wardle Architects, won the house of the year award which is both a working farm and a place of retreat. ‘This deft touch has created a house that is an exemplar for contemporary residential architecture, simultaneously functional and beautiful. This apparently simple house has an effortless relationship to the built, cultivated and natural landscape.’ (House Awards Jury) More information on the awards after the break.
Bellarine Peninsula House / Inarc Architects
Architects: Inarc Architects
Location: Barwon Heads VIC, Australia
Project Architect: Cathie Wheelahan
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Peter Clarke
The Martian Embassy / LAVA
Architects: LAVA
Location: Sydney NSW, Australia
Project Manager: Berents Project Management
Project Year: 2012
Project Area: 150 sqm
Photographs: Brett Boardman, Peter Murphy
Red Hill / Inarc Architects
Architects: Inarc Architects
Location: Mornington Peninsula, VIC, Australia
Architect: Clodagh McCallig
Project Architect: Ben Stibbard
Project Year: 2008
Photographs: Peter Clarke
Dapto Anglican Church Auditorium / Silvester Fuller
Architects: Silvester Fuller
Location: Dapto, NSW, Australia
Project Team: Patrik Braun, Rachid Andary, Bruce Feng
Project Leaders: Jad Silvester, Penny Fuller
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 1,155 sqm
Photographs: Martin van der Wal
Middle Park House / KPDO + CJA
Architects: Kerry Phelan Design Office & Chamberlain Javens Architects
Location: Beaconsfield Parade, Melbourne VIC, Australia
Project Year: 2012
Photographs: Derek Swalwell
ACT Emergency Services Agency Outdoor Training Centre / HBO+EMTB
Architects: HBO+EMTB
Location: Hume ACT, Australia
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: Ben Wrigley
Wintergarden Façade / Studio 505
Architects: Studio 505
Location: Brisbane QLD, Australia
Project Year: 2012
Photographs: John Gollings, Courtesy of Studio 505
Green Square Town Centre Library and Green Square Plaza International Competition
The city of Sydney has launched an international design competition as part of the the Green Square Development Project for a new Library Centre and Plaza at the heart of a 278 hectare area south of the city centre. The Green Square Development project is an initiative to redevelop a 278 hectare area south of the city centre of Sydney, Australia by bringing in diverse functions of housing, open spaces, offices and facilities that contribute to a vibrant, sustainable community. The library will be designed as a community centre and hub and used as an educational and creative resource, as well as a lounge. The project is allotting $40 million for the design and construction of the new facility and should be an integrated whole between the library and plaza which will also be a host to public arts, community events and markets. Stage one entries close on August 21st. Visit the official Green Square Library website to learn more.
More details on the competition and the project after the break.
Park House / Shaun Lockyer Architects
Architects: Shaun Lockyer Architects
Location: New Farm QLD, Australia
Project Team: Shaun Lockyer
Design Principal: Shane Marsh
Project Architect: Richard Pain
Architectural Technician: Corinne Bolton – Interiors
Project Year: 2012
Photographs: Scott Burrows
Seacliff House / Chris Elliott Architects
Architect: Chris Elliott Architects
Location: Sydney, Australia
Landscape Architects: Terragram
Photographs: Richard Glover, Vladimir Sitta
Venice Biennale 2012: Australian Pavilion focuses on Architect’s Evolving Role
Return from a water taxi journey around the Giardini via zip line, explore the potential for “robot craftsmen” and discover much more this August at the Australian Pavilion during the 2012 International Venice Architecture Biennale. With the world-famous exhibition just around the corner, the Australian Institute of Architects have decided to release details on what to expect at their exhibit, Formations: New Practices in Australian Architecture.
The Creative Directors, Anthony Burke and Gerard Reinmuth, said: “It’s very exciting to see how the architectural profession is evolving, the new domains that are being explored and the vitality and variety of innovative architectural types that Australia seems to foster. Formations highlights the range of unconventional and world-leading architectural practice types being developed across Australia, celebrating new opportunities for architects that are working in non-traditional and unexpected ways.”
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Pirates Bay House / O’Connor and Houle Architecture
Architects: O’Connor and Houle Architecture
Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Project Area: 200 sqm
Photographs: Earl Carter
Bruce Munro announces plans for Solar Powered Field of Light at Uluru
Many of you are aware of Bruce Munro’s dazzling LED ‘Light: Installations’ currently on view until late September in the fields of Pennsylvania’s Longwood Gardens. Well, the famed artist has just announced plans to embark on his largest installation to date – a quarter million solar powered stems of light to cover one square kilometer of land in the heart of the Australian red desert at Uluru (Ayer’s Rock). Fundraising begins today and you can help make it happen.
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