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 WOHA Architects came second equal in Singapore’s Duxton Plain Public Housing Competition with a staggered honeycomb of homes and gardens floating over a public park
Leon van Schaik has edited Poetics in Architecture, a special issue of AD with a strong Melbourne showing, including work by Edmond and Corrigan, Kerstin Thompson, Sean Godsell, Tom Kovac, James Brearley, Stephen Bram and Allan Powell, and essays by Paul Carter, Nikos Papastergiardis, Justin Clemens and Mauro Baracco
The Sidney Myer Music Bowl and Newman College have been added to the UIA’s International Heritage Register
Work by five Australian practices has been selected for Next, “an exploration of the imminent future of architecture”, at the Venice Biennale, curated by Deyan Sudjic. The projects are Tower V by Wood Marsh, Stonehenge Visitor Centre by Denton Corker Marshall, Shrine of Remembrance undercroft by Ashton Raggatt McDougal, Federation Square by Lab Architecture Studio, and Digital Architecture Gallery, RMIT, by Tom Kovac. Apparently there will not be an exhibition in the Australian pavilion due to a lack of funding
Nadia Watson, a student at QUT has received an honourable mention in the 2002 Berkeley Undergraduate Prize for Architectural Design Excellence for an outstanding essay. The jury included art historian James Ackerman, and architects Charles Correa, Connie Occhialini and Nicholas Ray
Woodhead International are redesigning every branch of the Siam Commercial Bank, Thailand
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Caroline Pidcock is the new president of the NSW Chapter of the RAIA
Misho + Associates and RIHS Architects are designing Australia’s Animal World, a fauna park for Darling Harbour
Planning NSW has approved changes to the masterplan for Jacksons Landing on Pyrmont Point. This will result in a 1.2 hectare park, a reduction in development density, new view corridors to the harbour and Anzac Bridge, and the buildings on Distillery Hill being reconfigured to be more slender. Lend Lease will adopt a “multi-architect approach”, with Denton Corker Marshall being commissioned for the first building on Distillery Hill
Sydney Design Week will see the Young Designer of the Year Awards, at the Powerhouse Museum, 8-18 August
The Wilcannia Health Service by Merrima won the Energy Australia Award in the Energy Australia National Trust Heritage Awards. William Hardy Wilson, by Zeny Edwards, won a Print Award. The tower and spire conservation at St John’s Darlinghurst won the Community Groups Award. Clive Lucas Stapleton & Partners were the conservation architects
The NSW Government has released a draft of the revised Codes of Practice and tendering for the construction industry
The Historic Houses Trust Meet the Architects series continues with Harry Seidler on 28 July and Geoffrey Twybill on 1 September
The AILA’s State Awards have been announced. The Great Western Highway – Leura to Katoomba – masterplan, by Spackman & Mossop, has won the 2002 Award for Excellence. Spackman and Mossop also won the Civic and Urban Design Award for Cook and Philip Park, and the Transport and Infrastructure Award for the Moore Park Bus Interchange. Landscape Design Group, DPWS and Hassell won a masterplanning award for the Victoria Park Public Domain
Burley Katon Halliday has designed Habitat, a new apartment development in St Leonards
The Museum of Sydney is hosting a debate “What architecture exists beyond the eastern suburbs?” on August 21
Developer Neville Fredericks is proposing an new urbanist “eco mini-city” on the outskirts of Wollongong. “Tullimbah” has been designed by Chip Kaufman, a disciple of Andres Duany, and Wendy Morris of Ecologically Sustainable Design
Richard Francis-Jones, of MGT, has won the limited competition for a $500 million office tower development proposed for 163 Castlereagh Street, which will incorporate the heritage-listed Legion House
Graham Thorp, of Peddle Thorp & Walker has died
The masterplan for the Department of Defence site next to Penrith railways station, by Architectus, has been released
Gemma Pena has been appointed associate partner at Crawford Architects
Innovarchi have received development approval for alterations to one of Sydney Ancher’s Maytone Avenue houses from the 1940s. The consultation process involved heritage architect Robert Moore, the RAIA Heritage Committee, DOCOMOMO and discussions with Syd’s former partner Stuart Murray, Syd’s son John Ancher and Glenn Murcutt
The City of Sydney has launched Barani, a new website showing the Aboriginal history of the city and environs
USydney has released a masterplan by MGT to upgrade and integrate the Darlington Campus into the main campus
The RAIA NSW Chapter is planning a conference “On Monumentality” for late August. Cohosted by the NSW universities, it aims to bridge between theory and practice. Kenneth Frampton will give the keynote address
Lloyd Allchin, retired managing partner of Stephenson & Turner, died in October last year
As part of Engineering Week Harry Seidler is leading a forum, “Are Tall Buildings the Future of Sydney’s CBD”, at the City Exhibition Space on 17 July
The Sustainable Energy Development Authority is running a series of seminars to help businesses improve their environmental performance
Rice Daubney has won the design competition for the redevelopment of Kindersley House, Bligh Street, Sydney for BT Office Trust
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Concept plans for Queensbridge Square.
Proposals by Kerstin Thompson
Architects with Julian Raxworthy and Jason
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Urban Initiatives.
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Peter Elliott Architects with Sinatra Murphy.
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Tract Consultants and Gary Emery.
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Kerstin Thompson Architects have won the competition for the visitors centre at the Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne
The RAIA Vic Chapter celebrated World Environment Day with the forum Ego-centric Eco-centric Architecture with speakers Peter Ellyard, Peter Elliott, Peter Corrigan, Caroline Pidcock and Ross Blair
The State Government has established the Victorian Design Advisory Council to advise on urban planning issues
Dale Jones-Evans is the architect for a group of high school students in Hawkesdale, rural Victoria, who are planning to redevelop a toilet block and pool changing rooms into a tourist development
Catherine Evans has left ARM to become professional services manager of the Vic Chapter of the RAIA
The headquarters and garden of the Royal Victorian Institute of the Blind, designed in the 1860s by Crouch and Wilson, has been listed by Heritage Victoria. Plans to build an eight-level office building in the front garden and a 20-level residential tower behind have been postponed
The new County Court, by architects in association Daryl Jackson, Sinclair Knight Merz, Lyons is open
Ken Sowerby has designed a 12-storey office tower with a 5-star energy rating for the site behind Scots Church in Collins Street
Planning minister Mary Delahunty has declined permission for a residential tower on the CUB site, designed by Robert Peck von Hartel Trethowan, which would have overshadowed Queen Victoria Market
Proposals for the Sandridge Bridge development have been scrapped, with the State Government now proposing that it be used as a footbridge
Professor Ruth Fincher has been appointed as the new Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at UMelbourne, following Ross King’s retirement. Also at UMelbourne, Professor Philip Goad has accepted a Chair of Architecture and Associate Professor Kim Dovey has accepted a Chair of Architecture and Urban Design
CAD Conference 2002 will be held in Melbourne in early August
BKK Architects curated a onenightevent at Penthouse and Pavement Gallery as part of the international Faites de la Lumiere light festival. This coincides with events in Paris, London, Chicago, Madrid, and 12 other cities
The Department of Infrastructure commissioned five architects to propose concept plans for Queensbridge Square, on the Yarra as part of a “design by inquiry” process.Work was produced by Peter Elliott Architects with Sinatra Murphy, Tract Consultants and Gary Emery, Urban Initiatives, Swaney Draper, and Kerstin Thompson with Julian Raxworthy and Jason McNamee. The project was controversial as the designers were required to relinquish copyright of their proposals, but work is now proceeding
The City of Stonnington have announced their annual urban design awards. Neometro won the Judges Award and Best New Residential Development: Multiple Dwellings. Best New Residential Development: Single Dwelling went to Richard Kerr Architect, Best Heritage Design: Alterations and Additions/ Restoration was won by Cattarch, Grant Amon won Best Alteration and Addition: Existing Building and Acui Edwards Architects won the Best Non-Residential development category
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The new RAIA SA Chapter offices by Phillips/Pilkington are complete
Tenders have been called to develop the former Balfours Wauchope site, on the corner of Franklin Street and Morphett Street, and the Franklin Street bus terminal site
Scott Drake has been confirmed as program director for architecture at UniSA
Emilis Prelgauskas is continuing his housing series which “achieve energy efficiency by design rather than by compliance”
Stephen Ward, formerly manager of the Design and Heritage Management Division, DAIS, has accepted a lectureship UniSA
The SANTOS Petroleum Engineering building at UAdelaide by Hassell is nearing completion
Stafford Architects in collaboration with Woodhead International, have finished a new winery in the Barossa
Chapman Herbert Architects are redeveloping Mount Gambier City Hall, to reorient the 1880s heritage-listed civic buildings towards the garden and to provide a forum for a range cultural and social activities
John Maitland, Nick Ingerson, Warwick O’Brien, Emilis Prelgauskas and Paul Whatnell are part of Atelier U+E, an organisation designed to provide standard energy efficiency ratings and develop new solutions (www.aue.sa.on.net)
Mulloway has completed the Moana Surf Life Saving Club
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