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 Peddle Thorp Architects has
been appointed by PT Triadi,
Bali, to work on the Australia
Bali Memorial Eye Centre as part
of a design and construct team //
The RAIA has reintroduced the
International Award to National
Architecture Awards // BURO
Architects is working on a
Buddhist Peace Centre in Bhutan
// RAIA International was
launched in Hong Kong in
February, the first off-shore
presence for the Institute // Earle
Arney of Woods Bagot has been
short-listed in an international
urban design competition for an
oceanfront residential, retail
and hotel development to
accommodate 5,000 people on the
island of Bahrain // A consortium
headed by Cox Architects has won
a competition to design two
bridges costing $56M in
Singapore. The Cox-led team
includes Arup and Singapore firm
Architects61 // Woods Bagot is
working with Nasa Multiplex to
deliver a Foster and
Partners-designed 86-storey
mixed-use tower in Dubai.
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| NATIONAL |
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The winning entry in the East Darling
Harbour competition by Hill Thalis, Jane
Irwin and Paul Berkmeier.
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Shane Murray and Nigel Bertram,
of RMIT, have been appointed as
Creative Directors for the
Australian exhibition at this year’s
Venice Biennale. Other short-listed
proposals came from: Merrima
Design + tUG (Kevin O’Brien and
Michael Markham) (Qld/Vic); Roderick Simpson and Craig
Allchin (NSW); Jennifer Harvey
and Sean Pickersgill (SA); and
Andrew Mackenzie (Vic) // RMIT
is hosting the UAL International
Housing Conference in October
2006, which aims to examine
architecture’s involvement in
general provision of housing in
Australia. Manual Gausa, Spain,
is a keynote speaker // Alec
Tzannes of Alexander Tzannes
Associates and Ian McDougall of
Ashton Raggatt McDougall have
been elected as the RAIA National
Councillors // Fine Grain, SONA’s
Australasian Architecture and
Design Student Conference, has
been postponed until further
notice // The Realise Your Dream
scholarship for creative young
Australians in design fields is
calling for entries. Organized by
the British Council Australia, the
scholarship awards six $10K
prizes to send winners to the UK
to work with a mentor in their
chosen field. Entries close 16 June.
See www.realiseyourdream.org.au
// International Women’s Day was
celebrated on 7 March by a
number of practices. In Sydney
PTW organized a breakfast with
a presentation by Barbara Rich,
CEO of Jarrah House, while in
Brisbane Kirsti Simpson,
managing principal of Hassell,
organized a conversation on
leadership with guest speakers
Kate Meyrick from The Horenery
Institute, Petie Walker from
Leighton Contractors and
artist-researcher Dr Lyndall Milani
// Proponents from Adelaide,
Perth, Kalgoorlie, Alice Springs,
Townsville, Newcastle, Sydney,
Melbourne and Bendigo have been
short-listed at the Solar Cities
expression of interest phase. Each
will submit a detailed business
case and winners will be
announced from July.
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| QUEENSLAND |
Justin Wells and Matt Riley have
formed a new firm, Tonic, in
Brisbane // Ian Brodie is the new
GHD Office Manager for the
Sunshine Coast // Deicke Richards
has appointed Phil Smith as a
senior urban designer and architect
to establish and manage the
practice’s Sunshine Coast office //
Springfield Land Corporation has
launched its proposals for an
integrated transit development,
which will surround the proposed
railway station and a Centenary
Highway extension in the emerging
town centre of Springfield. The
proposals seriously engage with
TOD principles and have been
designed by Portland-based ZGF in
collaboration with local practice
Deicke Richards.
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| NEW SOUTH WALES |
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Stutchbury
& Pape’s winning scheme for the
Learning Commons, Charles Sturt
University, Albury-Wodonga.
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John de Manincor, of AO,, and
Adam Russell, of Vim, have
combined their practice, research
and teaching to form a new
practice called draw (de Manincor
Russell Architecture Workshop) //
A $1.4B civic place urban
revitalization plan for Penrith, to
be built by 2014, has just been
announced // Su-Hsin Lee, Chair of
the Graduate Institute of Landscape
and Recreation at Feng Chia
University, Taiwan, is a Visiting
Professor at USydney; and Circe
Monteiro, Chair of the Urban
Design Program at the Federal
University of Pemambuco, Brazil,
is Visiting Associate Professor //
Woolsheds & Shearers’ Quarters,
an exhibition by Alison Bennett, is
at Shear Outback, the national
shearing museum at Hay, until the
end of May // The 2006 RAIA
NSW Architecture Awards jury is: chairperson Diane Jones, PTW; Ken Woolley, Ancher Mortlock &
Woolley; Steve Kennedy, Kennedy
Associates Architects; Peter
Graham, UNSW and environment
specialist; Janne Ryan, ABC Radio
National; Eva-Marie Prineas,
Architect Prineas; and Sandra
Kaji-O’Grady, UTS // Tonkin
Zulaikha Greer’s Newtown Silos
and a house by Nicholas Dunn and
Associates are among the seven
finalists for the Marrickville Medal
for heritage and cultural
preservation // A Sydney team lead
by Hill Thalis, Paul Berkmeier and
Jane Irwin has won the East
Darling Harbour competition //
Sydney’s iconic Rowe Street has
come back to life in Memory Lane –
Recollecting Rowe St, an exhibition
presented by the City of Sydney at
Customs House // Alain de Botton
is a guest speaker at the Sydney
Writers’ Festival (22–28 May) and
will discuss his book, The
Architecture of Happiness // The
RAIA has launched the NSW
Architecture Graduates and
Emerging Architects’ Prizes //
Stutchbury & Pape has won a
national competition to design a
$10M development on Charles
Sturt University’s Albury-Wodonga
Campus.
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| TASMANIA |
Morris Nunn + Associates in
association with PTW, Sydney, has
won a project for a new resort at
Port Arthur // Peter Cripps has
been elevated to a Life Fellow of
the RAIA // Richard Blythe has
been appointed Associate Professor
at the School of Architecture, UTas
// Jenny Binns is the winner of the
Design Award in Certificate IV in
Residential Drafting at TAFE
(sponsored by the RAIA Tas
Chapter) // Sam Aukland has
joined GHD Architecture and is
the new chair of the RAIA Tas
Chapter’s Public Affairs Committee
// Design Island, a new Arts
Tasmania triennial programme
aimed at developing and profiling
the Tasmanian design sector,
commences in May // The Hobart
Waterfront International Design
Competition, a design ideas
competition for the area around the
City Hall Axis, will be launched in
June // The RAIA Tas Chapter is
pushing for the appointment of a
state government architect // The
Young Professionals Network
Tasmania was launched in
February, bringing together young
professionals from design, planning
and engineering // Construction has
begun on UTas’s new School of
Architecture in Launceston, by
Sustainable Built Environments in
collaboration with Six Degrees.
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| NORTHERN TERRITORY |
Construction has started on the
Waterfront Convention and
Exhibition Centre in Darwin as part
of the $1.1B Waterfront
Development // Architects Studio
is completing a Conservation
Management Plan for the old
Borroloola Police Station.
Constructed in 1887, it is the oldest
surviving example of an outpost
police station erected in the NT //
Build Up Design is currently
working on an interpretive cultural
centre at Kalkaringi, to
commemorate the Wave Hill
walkoff and handback of land to
the Gurindji people // MKEA
Architects has been engaged
through GHD for the briefing,
design and documentation for the
second stage of the redevelopment
of the PowerWater site at the Ben
Hammond complex in Darwin.
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| SOUTH AUSTRALIA |
Stephen Ward is the new director
of the architecture programme at
UniSA’s Louis Laybourne Smith
School of Architecture and Design
// Carr Design is undertaking the
$3M refurbishment of Hilton Hotel,
Adelaide // Woods Bagot has been
engaged by Connell Wagner as
subconsultants to master plan the
Osborne Maritime site for Techport
Australia // The Old and New
Parliament Houses, on Adelaide’s
North Terrace, have become the
first SA entry on the National
Heritage List. The complex
includes work by Colonial
Architect W. Bennett Hays,
Colonial Architect Edward
Hamilton, competition-winning
architects Edmund Wright and
Lloyd Taylor, Colonial Architect
E. J. Woods, and Architect-in-Chief
A. E. Simpson // The South
Australian Heritage Council has
replaced the State Heritage
Authority, with Carolyn Wigg,
Judith Brine and Christine
Garnaut appointed as part of the
new council.
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| AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY |
The Canberra Olympic Pool,
designed by Ian Slater and
awarded the RAIA Sulman Award
in 1955, celebrates 50 years // The
national capital’s oldest church,
St John’s in Reid, has launched a
design ideas competition, calling
nationally for architects and
designers to explore development
opportunities for the historic site.
The competition is being run by
the National Capital Authority //
The winners of the ACT AILA
awards have been announced, with
awards of excellence received by
the National Capital Authority for
The Griffin Legacy and Harris
Hobbs Landscapes for the Harris
Hobbs Garden, which also won an
AILA Partnership Award.
Partnership awards also went to
Enviro Links Design for the
University of Canberra Innovation
Centre; Harris Hobbs Landscape in
conjunction with ACT Parks and
Places for the Holt Shopping
Centre Refurbishments; and John
Easthope and Associates for
Garden at 9 Roma Mitchell Cres,
North Watson. Jennie Curtis and
Edwina Richardson shared the
President Award and Josh
Dransfield of RedBox Design
Group was the graduate awarded.
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| WESTERN AUSTRALIA |
Contested Terrains, the 23rd
Annual SAHANZ Conference,
takes place in Fremantle,
30 September – 2 October. Keynote
speakers are: Andrew Ballantyne,
Newcastle University, UK; Zeynep
Celik, New Jersey Institute of
Technology, USA; and Helen
Mallinson, London Metropolitan
University, UK // Woods Bagot has
appointed Michael Michelides and
Georgia Singleton as principals.
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| VICTORIA |
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Cox’s proposal for Melbourne’s
Rectangular Pitch Stadium.
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Nadim Karam’s The Travellers on
Sandridge Bridge. Photo John Gollings.
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ARM is working with the Shrine
of Remembrance on Stage 2 of the
Visitors Centre, which is proposed
to accommodate extensive
education and display areas //
Fender Katsalidis is working on a
new $155M development called
The Foundry in the Melbourne
CBD // HBO + EMTB has
appointed Tina Berardi as director
of interior design in Melbourne //
Fender Katsalidis is involved in
a $40M redevelopment of an old
office tower in Frankston as part of
a transformation scheme for the
city // The centrepiece of the new
$18.5M Sandridge Bridge Precinct,
a new $3M public artwork by
Nadim Karam, The Travellers, has
opened. Ten 7.5-m-high sculptures
depict the story of the migrants
arriving in Melbourne // The RAIA
Vic Chapter is preparing PopUp: Past + Present + Future, an
exhibition for the Melbourne
Design Festival, 6–16 July. Exhibitors include Antarctica,
Atelier Wagner, BENT
Architecture, BKK Architects,
Cassandra Complex, Di Mase
Architects, Architects EAT, Matt
Gibson a + d, Live Load, Andrew
Maynard Architects, Paul Morgan
Architects, ODR, Rexroth
Mannasmann Collective, Studio
101, Kennedy Nolan Architects,
Whitefield McQueen Architects,
Barbara Moje Architecture,
Multiplicity, BURO Architects,
Form Architecture Furniture,
Michael Ellis Architects, phooey,
BY Architects, Watson
Architecture + Design, Etak Design
and Studio 505 // Ken Sowerby
has returned to Australia to set up
an architectural studio in
Melbourne. Studio Architetto will
be linked with Peddle Thorp //
ARM has started work on two
urban planning schemes in
association with VicUrban. The
first is based on the city of Geelong
and the second is the Revitalising
Central Dandenong Project //
Philip Goad has become a member
of the RAIA Victoria Council //
Peter Crone & Associates has
received Best New Commercial
Dwelling and the Environmentally
Sustainable Award in the
Whitehorse Urban Design Awards
for the PLC Junior School in
Burwood // Cox Architects
Melbourne has received the
commission for Melbourne’s
Rectangular Pitch Stadium, to be
situated in Olympic Park along
with other sporting icons such as
the MCG and the Rod Laver Arena.
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