January 2024

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Tapestry Design Prize For Architects 2023
This year we were delighted to receive applications in response to the rich and resonant site of Kerstin Thompson’s Bundanon Art Museum. The significance of this location, as detailed by Thompson in her extensive briefing documents, was treated with
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A Commitment To Awareness, Openness And Listening
High summer is a time for family and friends. But it is also a time of climatic extremes. As we experience higher average temperatures, long dry periods and storms, our communities, buildings and infrastructure come under significant pressure. With t
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What Does It Mean To Be An Architect Today?
We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognize their continuing connection to land, waters and culture. We pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging. As Architecture Australia celebrates its
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Monash University’s Urban Lab represents Melbourne at Seoul Biennale
During September and October 2023, Monash Urban Lab represented Melbourne at the fourth Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism with the exhibition Ground Melbourne. On the theme of “Guest Cities, Parallel Grounds,” the exhibition engaged with ot
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Selected Writers And Photographers
Rory Hyde is an associate professor in architecture at the University of Melbourne. His most recent book is Architects After Architecture: Alternative Pathways for Practice, with Roberta Marcaccio and Harriet Harriss. (WRITER, PAGE 16) Ben Cleveland
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Introducing The “Next Gen”: Twelve Principles For Practice
There’s a shift taking place in architecture. The next generation is quietly forging its own path, remaking practice in a way that is relevant to today and points toward the future. What defines this “next gen”? You couldn’t call it a “movement” – th
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Other Architects
That Other Architects’ website navigation starts with “Interests” rather than the more typical “About” or “Projects” is somewhat revealing – as are the stated interests themselves: - Background, not foreground- Frameworks, not objects- Incomplete, an
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Simulaa
Although Simulaa was officially formed in 2020, the concept for it had been brewing for some time. Born of disillusionment with large-scale commercial practice and the desire for an experimental and autonomous project, Simulaa is perfectly named to e
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SO: Architecture
You may never have heard of SO: Architecture. But if you’re an avid scroller of Instagram or short-stay accommodation apps, you will almost certainly be familiar with Liz Walsh and Alex Nielsen’s work. With more than 900 reviews for The Barn Tas and
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New Resident
Under the banner “Ready-made architecture,” the Perth-based enterprise New Resident is challenging the way architecture is procured and projected. The antithesis of a current generation of Australian residential architecture – characterized by the be
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Speculative Architecture
Dirk Yates’s painting Eastern View of 85 Terrace St New Farm depicts an ordinary share-house scene in inner-city Brisbane: two seated figures at the edges of the image converse across a table, while a third is sketched out in the centre, reclining on
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Wangaratta District Specialist School Sibling Architecture
For many years, Wangaratta District Specialist School (WDSS) in north-eastern Victoria has operated out of buildings dating back to the 1980s, supplemented by a row of portables that conspicuously borders the school’s street frontage. Tucked away ami
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Meadows Primary School Project 12 Architecture
Located in the fast-growing suburb of Broadmeadows on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation, Meadows Primary School was given funding to upgrade its existing facilities to accommodate an extra 200 students by 2020. Working wi
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Custodianship Over Consumption: Shifting The Architectural Process
PHILIP OLDFIELD To start, could you briefly talk about your practice, where it came from and how it evolved? CLARE KENNEDY Five Mile Radius is about seven years old now. We started as a group of architects who just wanted to get on the tools, but we
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The Many Pathways To Public Work
If you decide to embark on starting your own practice and would like to work on public projects, there are many pathways. I don’t believe that any singular one is better than another. In fact, a combination of many paths will help set you in the righ
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University of Queensland Cricket Club Maintenance Shed Lineburg Wang with Steve Hunt Architect
The start of the 2020s has seen extreme environmental and economic pressures reshape the way we think, live and work. In a similar manner to architecture’s postwar era, our buildings are responding to – and becoming timestamps of – the present contex
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Goodhope Those Architects
As I sit across from Ben Mitchell, co-founder and director of Those Architects, he recounts one of his initial experiences within what was formerly the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation building in Sydney’s Paddington. The space, which served as an
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Fees And Procurement
ANDREW NIMMO With the widespread adoption of partial services and the ever-increasing list of specialist sub-consultants architects are required to work with, many architects have expressed concern that the role of the architect is being trimmed year
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Cultural Knowledge
MICHAEL MCMAHON In my experience, First Nations-led engagement in the industry is increasingly common. Craig, I’d love to know how you’ve seen First Nations engagement change over the course of your career? CRAIG KERSLAKE Well, that’s a substantial p
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Large Practice
TIFFANY LIEW Could you describe your current roles at BVN and how long you have been working there? ALI BOUNDS We have multifaceted roles. As co-studio principals, Bill and I jointly lead many projects, often collaborating with other principals. Addi
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Bradbury Park Play Scape Alcorn Middleton
When one thinks about what constitutes public work, and what a typical public architectural commission might be, rarely does one envisage a playground. Playgrounds are (or have the potential to be) key pieces of urban infrastructure. They not only su
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Nambucca Heads Library Extension Vokes and Peters with Zuzana and Nicholas
On the ridge of a hill in Nambucca Heads on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales is a post office, gallery, community hall and public library. The library has been recently renovated by Vokes and Peters with Zuzana and Nicholas.1 But the project is
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What’s Next For “Next Gen”? On The Drawing Board
Bence Mulcahy was selected through a publicly advertised EOI process to design a new community veterinary facility at Whitemark on Flinders Island. Previously, the island did not have a dedicated central clinic. The clinic’s verandah offers shelter f
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AA Prize for Unbuilt Work 2024
Over the past few years, we in the architecture and design industry have become increasingly aware of our responsibilities to earth’s climate and communities’ social needs. This conscious shift toward better briefs, processes and outcomes is rippling
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Between There and Now by Nathan Arceri
Between There and Now provides an accessible avenue for young adults to enter the housing market by promoting a gameboard approach to development in which the assorted sizes of buildings refer to the scale of investment from different “players.” The
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Neo-Gaya by Rui Shen Chong, University of Tasmania
Malaysia’s expected sea-level rise is almost five times the global average, and the nation is ranked eighth in the world for mismanagement of plastic waste. Just off the west coast of East Malaysia, Pulau Gaya (Gaya Island) forms part of the Tuku Abd
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Baugruppen at White Gum Valley by Spaceagency
The Baugruppen at White Gum Valley (WGV) project in Fremantle presents a vision for sustainable and community-oriented urban infill. Part of Development WA’s “Innovation through Demonstration” projects, this innovative housing initiative reimagines t
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Gardens on Oxford by Lily Cannon, Chloe Jin and Sarah-Jane Wilson
Gardens on Oxford is an imaginative reinterpretation for cultivation of care in public space. It transforms Oxford Street, Sydney into a street-enriching, sustainable urban landscape through a series of garden beds owned by its community rather than
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What We Know, Is What We Remember by Taylor and Hinds Architects with Dr Lois Peeler AM
In considering the 2023 NGV Triennial themes of memory, matter and magic, we ask, “What does Country remember?” Cloaked in a fine bronze mesh, a simple, triangulated form circumscribes a vast field that gathers the elements of the garden in an encomp
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For A Good Time, Not A Long Time By Yuchen Gao
Melbourne’s City Square has been closed to the public since 2017, replaced by a temporary multistorey concrete and steel shed while the new Town Hall Station is constructed on the site. Soon, they promise, there will be “more trains, more often.” Our

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