In this proposal for a new Australian Prime Ministers lodge, the core concept focused around the question; 'What if the British had embraced Indigenous culture in 1788?' Designed by Stephen Collier Architects, they propose to reconfigure and redefine this boundary of the lodge as a ring of landscape that is retained for public use. This land would be defined by a cluster of deciduous trees while public access to Lake Burley Griffin for all Australians will remain in perpetuity. More images and architects' description after the break.
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‘The Lodge on the Lake’ Competition Entry / Stephen Collier Architects
The Lodge on the Lake Winning Proposal / Henry Stephens, Nick Roberts, Jack Davies
Designed by Henry Stephens, Nick Roberts, and Jack Davies, the winning proposal for The Lodge on the Lake returns to the issues bound up in Australian identity and issues of modernity. The lodge is both a development and a critique of the Australian relationship of landscape and dwelling, through an intersection of public assembly, intimate domesticity, and ground plane. From the composed house atop a plinth, to the slippages and interpolations that unravel down toward the lake, the lodge on the lake is a democratic marriage of land and architectural typology, introspective private dwelling, and public assembly. More images and architects' description after the break.
'The Lodge on the Lake' Competition Entry / Other Architects
Titled 'A House That Floods', the design for The Lodge on the Lake by Other Architects imagined re-inserting the narrative of the flooding and emptying Lake George into the benign, artificial landscape of Canberra. The movement of water acts as a spatial device that dictates and clarifies the otherwise overlapping and confused functions of the Prime Minister's Lodge. Drained or submerged at certain times, the spaces of the house are optimized for ceremonial events and domestic life, public access and secret meetings. More images and architects' description after the break.
Biosciences Research Building / Lyons
Nishi Sales Suite and Gallery / hungerford+edmunds + OCULUS
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Architects: hungerford+edmunds + OCULUS
- Area: 270 m²
- Year: 2011
Monash University Student Housing / BVN
Yarralumla Poolhouse / Katon Redgen Mathieson
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Architects: Katon Redgen Mathieson
- Year: 2011
Campus Design Ideas Competition proposal
The proposal submitted by Charles Dewanto, C J Foo, Lorenzo Ju, Yenny Kusuma, Louis Wong, Maggie Chu and Tze Ek Ng for the Campus Design Ideas Competition for the University of Canberra received a supplementary prize for their degree of resolution, ambitious vision for the concourse and quality of presentation. More images and architect’s description after the break.
Anzac Hall / Denton Corker Marshall
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Architects: Denton Corker Marshall
- Area: 3000 m²
- Year: 2004