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Yarra Lane / Hassell

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Architects: Hassell
Location: , VIC,
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.

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Balnarring House / Simon Couchman Architects

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Architects: Simon Couchman Architects / Simon Couchman
Location: Balnarring Beach, VIC,
Project Engineer: KH Engineering
Building Contractor: Nepean Houseworks
Landscape: Fiona Brockhoff
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: ~300 sqm
Photographs: Christine Francis

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Punt Road Oval Redevelopment / Suters Architects

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Architects: Suters Architects
Location: Richmond, VIC,
Project Team: Stephen Cheney, Mark van den Enden, Mike McGrath, Joshua McAlister, Kellie Adler, Kris McIsaac, Michael Hubbard, Neil Zimmerman, Rebecca Brewer, Vicky Tsang, Stuart Stark, Shea O’Donoghue
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 4,600 sqm
Photographs: Emma Cross

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AIR Apartments / Rothe Lowman

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Rothe Lowman Architects‘ 18 storey tall AIR Apartments will be the first true high rise residential apartment building ever built in .  The tower is comprised of 259 apartments and will bring “high density living to one of Melbourne’s five designated activity centers.”  The tower is expected to be one of the most striking buildings in the city.  “Its dynamic new architectural profile and sculptural façade foreshadows a renewed sense of place, taking ’s exciting transformation to unscaled heights,” explained the architects.

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Passive Solar Architecture / David A. Bainbridge and Ken Haggard

Passive Solar Architecture / David A. Bainbridge and Ken Haggard

David Bainbridge, founder of the Passive Solar Institute, recently sent us his book Passive Solar Architecture. The book is a great introduction for anyone interested in passive solar architecture. The content is kept simple and straightforward. It allows any…

 

Louis Kahn Drawing to Find Out / Michael Merrill

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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…

 

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