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    The Value Of Stillness In Architecture
    As I write this, we have moved into the new year and a time of great instability, with shocking international conflict and erratic weather patterns. (The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts has released data that show 2023 to be the wa
    Architecture Australia5 min read
    Mount Alexander College Kosloff Architecture
    The most recent addition to Mount Alexander College, a secondary school on unceded Wurundjeri Country in Naarm’s/ Melbourne’s inner-north, is a five-storey, brick-red beacon that establishes a series of meaningful visual and physical connections with
    Architecture Australia3 min readIntelligence (AI) & Semantics
    The Responsibilities Of Buildings – And Those Who Design Them
    Architecture contributes substantially to a city’s ability to thrive – and, in turn, a thriving city attracts good architecture. This issue includes two significant public projects, both of which are in what might be considered “second cities.” To co
    Architecture Australia5 min readIntelligence (AI) & Semantics
    AI And Design: Questions Of Ethics
    Artificial intelligence (AI) is a very old idea, but the term AI and the field of AI as it relates to modern programmable digital computing have taken their contemporary forms in the past 70 years.1Today, we interact with AI technologies constantly,
    Architecture Australia5 min read
    Geelong Arts Centre (Stage 3) ARM Architecture
    My first thought on seeing ARM Architecture’s Little Malop Street Redevelopment for the Geelong Arts Centre (GAC) is: Have they gone too far this time? The building is wrapped in what appears to be a white billowing curtain, complete with twisted cor
    Architecture Australia9 min readIntelligence (AI) & Semantics
    AI In Action: Case Studies
    Automated Architecture (AUAR) is a UK-based technology company using data-driven learning and generative design to build a distributed micro-factory network for sustainable timber housing. The co-founder and chief technology officer, Gilles Retsin, i
    Architecture Australia6 min readIntelligence (AI) & Semantics
    Architects Have Always Imitated. But Will AI Need Architects?
    The rapid acceleration of generative artificial intelligence (GAI)1 over the past 18 months is opening up new creative possibilities and disrupting a wide range of industries. Within this context, this dossier explores the potential and impact of AI
    Architecture Australia3 min read
    (This is) Air Nic Brunsdon
    Air has been topical in the 2020s. MONA’s Oceans of Air, an exhibition of Argentine artist Tomás Saraceno’s work, coincided with QAGOMA’s Air, a collection by Australian and international artists exploring the multifaceted dimensions of our shared at
    Architecture Australia6 min read
    Parramatta Aquatic Centre Grimshaw with Andrew Burges Architects and McGregor Coxall
    Sydney’s “second city,” Parramatta, occupies the land of the Burramattagal people, a clan of the Dharug. It was colonized in 1788, the same year as the first city. The invaders moved along the harbour to the head of the Parramatta River, where the fe
    Architecture Australia4 min read
    Flipside Circus’s Brisbane Circus Centre Blok Modular
    When the bright colours of the big top float above an otherwise ordinary urban landscape, everyone knows that the circus is in town. Blok Modular’s design for the Brisbane Circus Centre at Hamilton Reach, north of Brisbane, expands on an analogy for
    Architecture Australia5 min read
    Material Specificity: A “Radically Conservative” Approach
    What does it mean to design and build on unceded, First Nations land? This question prompts us to reflect on where we’re at as an industry and to begin the dialogue required to understand whose Country we are on. Examining business-as-usual practices
    Architecture Australia13 min readIntelligence (AI) & Semantics
    Roundtable: AI And The Discipline Of Architecture
    AI and technology Is generative AI (GAI) likely to impact the form of architecture? Mario Carpo contextualized GAI by describing how the modernist style developed from technological innovations in materials and their industrialized processes of fabr
    Architecture Australia2 min read
    Selected Writers And Photographers
    First Nations leader at Wardle Michael McMahon completed a master’s of architecture in 2020 at the Royal College of Art in London as a Robert Sykes Scholar. More recently, he has been appointed to the Heritage Council of Victoria. (WRITER, PAGE 15) P
    Architecture Australia7 min read
    Melbourne Holocaust Museum Kerstin Thompson Architects
    Holocaust museums, by their very existence and content, are not for “sissies.” And particularly in these febrile times, when the millennia-long struggles of the Jewish people are yet again in a ghastly daily news cycle. For these reasons, I approach
    Architecture Australia6 min read
    Powerhouse Castle Hill Lahznimmo Architects
    A grid of 12 square photographs shows a eucalyptus plantation: in some, the leaf-covered ground is at close range; others capture the ordered rhythm of the tamed trees; and others reveal the foliage canopy against the sky. In a further series, two la
    Architecture Australia10 min readIntelligence (AI) & Semantics
    Roundtable: AI And The Practice Of Architecture
    Engagement in practice Gwyllim Jahn: To begin with, we are interested in understanding how AI is being used in your practices. Xavier, could you explain who in your practice is using AI and what they’re using it for? Xavier De Kestelier: We work clos
    Architecture Australia1 min read
    Architecture Australia
    Editorial director Katelin ButlerAssociate editor Georgia BirksEditor-at-large Justine ClarkManaging editor Nicci DodanwelaEditorial enquiries +61 3 8699 1000, aa@archmedia.com.au Editorial team Linda Cheng, Jude Ellison, Alexa Kempton AA advisory co
    Architecture Australia4 min read
    MPavilion 10 Tadao Ando Architects and Associates
    MPavilion 10 is a very beautiful thing. A basically square plan is formed by six concrete walls: two sets of three, offset so that two entries – from the north and from the south – are formed by parallel pairs of walls. Inside, the pavilion has a flo
    Architecture Australia6 min readArchitecture
    Australian Embassy in Washington, D.C. Bates Smart
    In its first purpose-built embassy building in the United States (1965–69), Australia was presented through a white prism, demonstrating a mastery of international rationalism. The young federation adopted a “palazzo-like” monumentality – a civic mod
    Architecture Australia6 min readIntelligence (AI) & Semantics
    Digital Culture Hubs: Storing Traditional Knowledges For Contemporary Use
    Georgia Birks: Can you share a brief outline of the networking tool you’re working on with Ballardong/Whadjuk and Ngemba community members? Susan Beetson: The Elders I work with want to create an opportunity for Traditional Custodians and our communi
    Architecture Australia6 min read
    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
    Architecture Australia6 min read
    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
    Architecture Australia4 min read
    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
    Architecture Australia4 min read
    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
    Architecture Australia2 min read
    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
    Architecture Australia2 min read
    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
    Architecture Australia3 min read
    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
    Architecture Australia2 min read
    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
    Architecture Australia1 min read
    Architecture Australia
    Editorial director Katelin ButlerAssociate editor Georgia BirksEditor-at-large Justine ClarkManaging editor Nicci DodanwelaEditorial enquiries +61 3 8699 1000, aa@archmedia.com.auEditorial team Linda Cheng, Jude Ellison, Alexa KemptonAA advisory comm
    Architecture Australia4 min read
    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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