© Kevin Hui & Adrian Rivalland
Architect: Marc Dixon
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Project Team: Rosanna Ceravolo – Pablo Byass – Adrian Rivalland Builder – Canterbury
Builders Engineer: Shane Ford Contracting P/L
Photographs: Kevin Hui, Adrian Rivalland
Courtesy of LAVA
Designed as a learning space for the future, LAVA‘s design focuses on an environment that is sustainable, integrates with the landscape, connects with the school environment, and is suitable for prefabrication and mass customization. Relocatables are the decades old solution to changing demographics, remote community needs, and natural disasters. Unsightly, they are perceived as cheap and unpleasant spaces. This idea is upturned with spaces that are sustainable, practical, cost effective whilst making learning fun and exciting. More images and architects’ description after the break. read more »
© John Gollings
Architect: NH Architecture
Location: 314 – 336 Bourke Street, Melbourne, Australia
Completed: December 2010
Project Value: AUS$225 million
Gross Floor Area: 47,000 sqm
Client: Colonial First State Global Asset Management
Photographs: John Gollings, Dianna Snape
© Dianna Snape
Architects: JOH Architects
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Completion: 2009
Builder: David Tucker
Project Architect: Christian O’Halloran
Area: 355 sqm
Photographs: Dianna Snape
© Tanja Milbourne
Architects: BiLD architecture
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Project Director: Ben Milbourne
Project team: Haslet Grounds, Alison Stout, Edmund Carter, John Doyle
Completion: 2011
Photographs: Tanja Milbourne
© John Gollings
Architect: studio505
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Photographs: Ben Hosking, John Gollings, studio505
© Peter Bennetts
Architects: Edwards Moore
Location: Elwood, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Project Team: Ben Edwards & Juliet Moore
Project Area: 28 sqm
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: Peter Bennetts
Courtesy of Peddle Thorp Architects
Architects: Peddle Thorp Architects / Antoine Damery – Pat Cutri
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Client: MYER
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 5,200 sqm
Photographs: Courtey of Peddle Thorp Architects
© Shannon McGrath
Architect: Rachcoff Vella Architecture
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Photographs: Shannon McGrath
Courtesy of Hassell
Architects: Hassell
Location: Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Courtesy of Hassell
The design of South Yarra’s vibrant new Yarra Lane Precinct has seen HASSELL win a 2011 Melbourne Design Award. The team won the Interior Design, Hospitality award for their work on the precinct and its three exciting new dining venues: Outpost Dining Room, Mopho Noodle Bar and Deba Sushi Bar. Developer Michael Yates wanted the laneway, which runs off Melbourne’s lively Chapel Street, to be characterized by a diverse mix of individual shops – a village high street – that encouraged street activation and vibrancy.
Courtesy of Lyons
Melbourne-based architectural practice Lyons has brought together a panel of leading architects and designers to discuss the central theme of this year’s Melbourne Architecture Annual, What makes a home?
The panel discussion, “Talking Homes”, will take place at Lyons’ Bourke Street office on October 25th from 5-6pm and will feature; Jill Garner, Victoria’s Associate Government Architect; Dr Karen Burns, from the Faculty of Art and Design at Monash University; and Rachael Nolan, of the award winning Melbourne architectural practice Kennedy Nolan. More information on the event after the break. read more »
© Michael Gazzola
Architects: dKO Architecture
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Project Team: Zvonko Orsanic, Hannah Jonasson
Contractor: Total Construction
Collaborators: Norman Disney & Young, Felicetti, JNAT, McCutcheon MacDonald, Invotec, Like Butter
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 450 sqm
Photographs: Michael Gazzola
© Sonia Mangiapane
Architect: KebbellDaish
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Project Team: Sam Kebbell, Principal architect; Peter Adsett, Principal architect; John Daish, David McGregor, Soo Kim, Francois Breedt
Engineer: Dunning Thornton Consultants: Alistair Cattanach, Nick Carmen
Quantity surveyor: Workshop Quantity Surveyors: John Barton
Builder: Wainwright Construction: Paul Wainwright
Landscape Architect: KebbellDaish and Peter Adsett
Building Surveyor: Nepean Building Permits: Jim Sheedy
Client: Peter and Suzie Adsett
Project Area: 165 sqm
Project Year: 2009
Text: Provided by Peter Adsett and Sam Kebbell
Photographs: Sonia Mangiapane
© Kevin Hui
Architects: 4site Architecture
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Project Team: Kevin Hui
Builder: A.T. Interiors & Construction Pty Ltd
Engineers: Keith Long & Associates
Project Year: 2008
Project Area: 12 sqm (new works) 34 sqm (works to existing)
Photographs: Kevin Hui
© Kevin Hui
Architects: 4site Architecture
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Project Team: Kevin Hui, Monique Choi
Builder: A.T. Interiors & Construction Pty Ltd
Engineers: Coulthard Shim Pty Ltd
Project Year: 2010
Project Area: 39 sqm
Photographs: Kevin Hui
© Herald Sun
Melbourne’s Prahran neighborhood will soon be home to a five-story apartment block with David Bowie’s alter ego Ziggy Stardust emblazoned across the façade. The image will span across four of the levels on the new $10 million Tatu building. Utilizing a perforated metal screen system, the eyes and lips of the facial image will be adjustable when residents shift the screens on their balconies.
Originally rejected by the Stonnington Council, it was overturned by the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal. While some local residents are speculative of its aesthetics, the bold move made by developer Donald Musto is sure to garner attention. Whether you are a fan of Bowie or not, the full façade mural is sure to make a mark on Melbourne – even if it does come across as kitschy.
References: www.heraldsun.com.au
Photographs: Herald Sun
© Robert Hamer
Architects: Vibe Design Group
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Project Area: 314 sqm
Photographs: Robert Hamer
© John Gollings
Penleigh and Essendon Junior Boys School began in an Italianate mansion on windy hill, opposite the Essendon Footy Club. This building is exceptional in a residential area where Federation housing dominates. Slowly the school has accumulated much of the property in the block bounded by Nicholson, Raleigh, Napier & Fletcher Streets. Many of the ‘houses’ are now occupied by the school. This new project, a two story year 5 & 6 block with 3 classrooms above and below, is an important addition to the school and public interface to Nicholson Street.
Architect: McBride Charles Ryan
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Project Team: Rob McBride, Principal Architect; Debbie-Lyn Ryan, Principal Architect; Benedikt Josef, Project Manager; Amelia Borg, Natasha Maben
Engineer: Hive Engineering
Builder: Contract Control
Building Surveyor: Davis Langdon
Services Engineer: Medland Metropolis
Project Area: 1650 sqm
Photographs: Courtesy of McBride Charles Ryan / John Gollings
© Robert Hamer
Architects: Vibe Design Group
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Project Area: 327 sqm
Photographs: Robert Hamer
© Robert Hamer
Architects: Vibe Design Group
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Project Area: 321 sqm
Photographs: Robert Hamer
Louis Kahn Drawing to Find Out / Michael Merrill
We recently featured the companion to this book, Louis Kahn On the Thoughtful Making of Spaces. This large format book draws together over two hundred—mostly unpublished—drawings of Kahn’s Dominican Motherhouse. It offers a fascinating look into Kahn’s design process…
This book is an account of the highly productive decade of architectural experimentation in Croatia lodged between the violent break-up of Yugoslavia and their slow integration into the EU. Ivan Rupnik guides the reader through the emergence of this…
“‘After Crisis’ concentrates around the new conditions for architectural practice and around the new epistemologies that may inform it in the next future. That is, in the period after the financial bubble has collapsed and living and working conditions…
