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 Time to make sure your software is legal. Architects and engineers are the first targets
of the Business Software Association of
Australia’s latest efforts in tracking down
organisations and individuals using illegal
software. Apparently architects regularly
appear on the BSAA investigation lists and
several firms have been “busted” for illegal
software use (and faced significant damages
claims) The RAIA’s Environment Policy
has been updated and adopted by National
Council and is now available on the Institute
website The latest issue of Meanjin, “Under Construction”, takes a look at the city
– Australian and others For a fantastic,
detailed architecture links website, with a
focus on Australasia, check out Peter Johns’
site at zebralinks.tripod.com Wei Shun
Lee has been appointed project director at
Woods Bagot The BDP Environment
Design Guide won a United Nations
Association of Australia World Environment
Day Award Despite the RAIA’s efforts,
the Department of Immigration and
Multicultural Affairs has refused to alter its
competition for detention centres. The
competition will still strip all participants of
their copyright and moral rights, and intends
“mixing and matching” the winning scheme
with ideas from the other schemes John
Denton is one of ten “leaders in their field” selected for “Men of Their Time”, a series of
photographic portraits by Grant Matthews
commissioned by Omega to launch a new
watch. The limited series prints will be sold
to raise money for “Youth off the Streets” RAIA/SONA have published Terra#1 2000,a
challenging-to-navigate documentation of
recent student work The RAIA’s Housing
for Life competition was won by Michael
Grave and Deena Ridenour. Second place
went to Colin Mitchell and Francesca
Davenport, and third place to David Kilpatrick
in association with Song Gao, Mimi Zaleha
Abdul Ghani and Yazied Sarkom. The winning
project will be built in Adelaide by the South
Australian Housing Trust.
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Lord Mayor Frank Sartor has abandoned
redevelopment plans for the MCA following a
perceived lack of public support for
Sauerbruch and Hutton’s competition-winning
proposals. NSW Premier Bob Carr
has since announced recurrent and capital
funding from the State Government to
support the museum in its current location. Space Odysseys: Sensation and Immersion is showing at the Art Gallery of
New South Wales until 21 October. It
includes installations by James Turrell and
Bruce Nauman The National Urban
Design Forum conference is planned for
Newcastle at the end of November Work
has begun on Alexander Tzannes Associates
ceremonial entry to Centennial and Moore
parks The NSW Police Service is using
the Building Greenhouse Rating Scheme’s
Commitment Agreement to ensure the new
Police Service Facility in Parramatta will
perform at 4.5 stars The State
Government has released its draft
masterplan for Sydney Olympic Park The
Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority has
begun consultations towards developing a
masterplan for West Circular Quay –
stretching from First Fleet Park to the
Harbour Bridge Professor of engineering
Adrian Page has been appointed pro vice-chancellor
of the new Faculty of Engineering
and Built Environment at UNewcastle Harry and Penelope Seidler, Glenn Murcutt,
James Weirick, Jennifer Taylor and Robert
Irving all went to bat over proposed changes
to the property adjacent to Ken Woolley’s
1963 Woolley house. They argue that
changes to the neighbouring property would
have a significant and detrimental effect on
the heritage value of the house. Mosman
Council has approved the work, subject to
conditions which include a landscape
management plan requiring the replacement
of screening trees The City of Sydney
received a Special Achievement in GIS Award
from the US Environmental Sciences
Research Institute for the city’s interactive
mapping system at www.cityofsydney.nsw. gov.au Expat Australian philosopher
Professor Elizabeth Grosz gave a public
architecture lecture at UNSW, suggesting
that architecture should take the
contributions made by the natural more
seriously The new Wattle Street Footbridge in Ultimo, designed by the
Sydney’s City Projects team, has opened. It
will be a key element of the east-west
pedestrian network linking Ultimo and Glebe
to the CBD The State Government is
holding an on-line ideas competition for
South Sydney’s Green Square town centre
The Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority
will oversee the redevelopment of Cooks
Cove, near the airport. This involves a
“gateway commerce and technology hub”, a
new golf course and the protection of
existing wetlands Mobile Metropolis,an
exhibition overviewing Sydney’s transport
systems, opens at the City Exhibition Space
at the end of September The State
Government has launched its electronic
procurement implementation strategy Heritage NSW has listed Walter Burley
Griffin’s Eric Pratten House and the Sydney
Observatory by Colonial Architect Alexander
Dawson “Ground Plane”, the first issue
of the second series of Content, was
launched with a debate, “The Ground Plane
in Architecture”, between Col Madigan,
Richard Leplastrier, Peter Davidson and
Richard Francis-Jones. The annual
publication is supported by UNSW and Lend
Lease and edited by Ninotchka Titchkosky,
Richard Francis-Jones,Lawrence Nield and
Jeff Mueller BT Office Trust has
commissioned Foster and Partners to design
a new office tower in Phillip Street The
NSW Police Safer by Design program will
require all building proposals to be approved
by police assessors In a bid to protect
sensitive coastal land, the State Government
has announced its Coastal Protection State
Environmental Planning Policy, which
requires any NSW project within one
kilometre of the ocean to be approved by
Premier Bob Carr Rome-based Carl
Pickering, of Lazzerini Pickering Architetti,
has joined forces with Tanner & Associates
to design a new “dining establishment” for restuaranteurs Bill Granger and Maurice
Terzini, on the new top level of the Bondi
Icerbergs Club House The Faculty of the
Built Environment at UNSW has launched the
Built Environment Preparatory Program for
Indigenous students. The four-week program
is positioned as a practical response to the
absence of courses in built environment
education that specifically address issues of
access by Indigenous Australians.
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Work has begun on the Alice Springs to
Darwin railway line.
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| Queensland |
The Queensland Government has given the
go-ahead on the Brisbane Football Stadium
at Lang Park, designed by HOK Sport The
government is also interviewing for a master
planner for the Queensland Place precinct,
which extends to the Lang Park
redevelopment Bill Job, the man who
introduced theme architecture to Australia
with the 1977 design of the Pacific Fair, Gold
Coast, has been named Architect of the Year
by the Queensland Board of Architects The board has also made student awards to
Susan Holden and Kahn Neil of UQ and
Timothy Benneton and Paul Wintour of QUT
Cox Rayner and Ainsley Bell Murchison
have won the limited competition for the
Brisbane Magistrates Court Ryue
Nishizawa (collaborator of Kazuo Seijima) and
US architect Lisa Findlay spoke as part of the
UQueensland architecture lecture series QUT has announced the winners of three
architectural design. Powell Dods & Thorpe
with Denton Corker Marshall have won the
South East Precinct at Gardens Point. Hassell/MGT have won Creative Industries
and Powell Dods & Thorpe with Donovan Hill
have won Health Sciences Beth Benson
of Canada’s Waterfront Regeneration Trust
spoke about “rivers as urban landscapes” at
The River Symposium Crone McKerrell
Lynch has changed its name to ML Design
Brisbane City Council plans to transform
a 16.4 ha industrial site in Newstead into a
“modern waterfront village”, with Mirvac
undertaking the residential component Retail Therapy,a collaboration between
architects, artists, designers and retailers, shows in Fortitude Valley shopfronts in late
September. Architects involved include Alice
Hampson and Sheona Thompson, Arkhefield,
Bligh Voller Nield, Bud Brannigan, Donovan
Hill, Buchan Group, Cox Rayner, Fairweather
Proberts, Hassell and Haysom Spender.
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The Lord Mayor’s Prize has gone to Evan
Walker and David Yencken for their work in
identifying the potential of the Yarra River
and Southbank, and for their contribution to
Melbourne’s urban life. The Lord Mayor’s Prize is presented by the City of Melbourne
in conjunction with the RAIA awards The
State Government has called for expressions
of interest for the redevelopment of Spencer
Street Station, to be carried out under the
Government’s Partnerships Victoria policy
Harold Desbrowe Annear’s Church Street
Bridge has been listed by the Heritage
Council Peter Stutchbury: Architectural
Drawings showed at the William Mora
Galleries in August Eoin Barnett and
Merv Dowrick have joined Architecture
Alliance Sainsbury Reed The Jewish
Museum of Australia will show photographs
by Wolfgang Sievers and Sharyn Meade of
Ernest Fooks’s house, 17 October – 14
November The Department of
Infrastructure exhibited six proposals for the
Sandridge Bridge redevelopment in July –
including a giant ferris wheel, a reproduction
of the Spirit of Progress train, a Ponte
Vecchio-inspired structure, and a cocoon
wrapped around the bridge. Community
feedback is now being examined by an
independent judging panel, with Barry
Marshall as the architectural representative
The Sandridge development is part of
the Government’s Yarra Plan, a proposal to
revitalise the north bank of the Yarra Norman Day’s architectural career was
celebrated in August with an exhibition at the
RMIT Gallery New Architecture in Berlin
opens at the RMIT Gallery in early November
Hotel developers Lustig and Moar plan to
convert the former Police Headquarters
building on Russell Street (1943), designed
by Percy Everett, into apartments, with a new
tower at the rear The extrusion
continues; DCM are designing extensions to
the award-winning Emery house.
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