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 Lab architecture studio has won
a competition to design the Xianlin
Commercial Centre, a four-level
retail complex in Nanjing, China
// Tokyo-based Australian firm
Riccardo Tossani Architecture has
been appointed master architect for
an 8,000-plus-bed ski resort village
at Niseko Mountain, in Hokkaido,
Japan // Woodhead International
is masterplanning a residential
development to accommodate
11,000 people in Chandigrah, India
// Federation Square is one of 33
projects selected for the Chicago
Athenaeum 2006 International
Architecture Award. The winners
will be exhibited in Dublin in
December // Stadia Vision, a joint
venture team of GroupGSA, Eeles
Trelease and Architects Bureau
(New Delhi), has been shortlisted
for the India Commonwealth Games
design // Earle Arney of Woods
Bagot has won a competition to
design a new high-rise office
building in Auckland for the Bank
of New Zealand // Woods Bagot’s
group managing director David
Tregoning has relocated to the
practice’s London office.
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About Face project. Kerstin
Thompson Architects’ design for a
rural villa and DKO’s interpretation of
a Queenslander.
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This year’s Interior Design Awards
have been announced, with the
Solivoid Project by Monash
University’s Spatial Research
Group winning the Excellence
and Innovation in Interior Design
award, Commercial Interior Best
of State (VIC) award and the
Hospitality category award. Other
winners included John Henry
Architects for Research House,
Johnson Pilton Walker for JPW
offices, Francis-Jones Morehen
Thorp for The Mint, Lacoste and
Stevenson Architects for Customs
House Library and Ara Design
Group for Point Piper apartment //
The Planning Institute of Australia
awards have been announced. The
Footscray Principal Activity Centre
and Transit City by Maribyrnong
City Council (VIC) and The Griffin
Legacy by the National Capital
Authority (ACT) jointly won the
Plans and Ideas Award for
Planning Excellence // McBryde
Charles Ryan, DKO, Donaldson
+ Warn, Environa Studio,
Fairweather Proberts, Kerstin
Thompson Architects and Order
Architects have all designed houses
for About Face, which aims to
challenge commonly held beliefs
about brick’s versatility and
sustainability // Spanish architect
Elias Torres is the next speaker in
the Australian Architecture
Association’s Black talk series. He
speaks in Sydney on 27 July and
in Melbourne on 28 July. See
www.architecture.org.au //
Superstudio 06, a 48-hour national
cross-university student design
competition organized by SONA,
is scheduled for early August //
Shahana McKenzie is the new
RAIA national events manager //
Szencorp has won the Green
Building Award at the World
Environment Day Awards for
“Taking Buildings to the Next Level
with 40 Albert Road”. A special
commendation went to the
Westbourne Grammar School
hospitality complex by Cowland
North Architecture.
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Aquativity, part of
the redevelopment of South Bank
Lagoon by Splat landscape architects.
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Six redevelopment designs have
been shortlisted for the King George
Square in Brisbane, with the winner
being announced in late August.
The shortlisted entries are Brian
Dunstan Architect, Pseudoland,
Urbis JD, Suters Architects,
HBO+EMTB and DesignInc // Gold
Coast property developer Nifsan
has set up a nonprofit organization,
the Queensland Development
Research Institute, to fund
university research in architecture,
civil engineering and urban design.
It has received a $680,000 grant
from Japan’s Ogasawara Foundation
for the Promotion of Science and
Engineering // Macks Robinson
architects has joined with PDT
Architects in a new office in West
End, Macks Robinson PDT
Architects // HBO+EMTB has
appointed Lil Golinelli as business
development manager for the
Brisbane office // Design Excellence
in Queensland, an exhibition of the
Queensland Design Awards,
showed at the Queensland Art
Gallery in June // Splat landscape
architects have designed a water
park, Aquativity, as part of the $4M
redevelopment of Brisbane’s South
Bank Parklands lagoon into an
interactive playground // A joint
venture between Architectus and
Fulton Trotter and Partners
Architects is designing a new CBD
office building adjacent to the
Albert Street Uniting Church. It
will be designed by Kerry Clare
and Lindsay Clare in collaboration
with Mark Trotter // Former South
Bank Corporation CEO Bill Grant
has joined Arkhefield as a member
of its Advisory Board // Fulton
Trotter and Partners Architects is
celebrating 60 years since its
beginnings as Fulton Job and Collin
in 1946 // Sally Macnaughton has
joined Group GSA as an associate
for interior design // The Centre
for Subtropical Design's inaugural
Mecu Travel Bursary has been
launched. Entries close 31 July. See
www.subtropicaldesign.bee.qut. edu.au // The RAIA's Queensland
Regional Awards have been
announced. Northern Queensland
Building of the Year and winner of
the People’s Choice Award is Edge
on Echlin, West End, by Architects
North. Commendations went to
Lavarack Barracks Redevelopment
Stage 3, Townsville, by Bligh Voller
Nield; and Jimberella Offices,
Dajarra, by Stephen de Jersey
Architect // Far North Queensland
House of the Year is Machans
Beach Cottage by Deborah Fisher
Architect. Commendations went
to Croydon Railway Station by
Buchanan Architects; and Argentea
Display Office/House, Palm Cove,
by Total Project Group // Gold
Coast Building of the Year is shared
by Q1, Surfers Paradise, by Sunland
Design Group and Innovarchi
(podium design), and Air,
Broadbeach, by Ian Moore
Architects. Gold Coast House of
the Year is M T House, Currumbin,
by Shane Denman Designs. Gold
Coast People’s Choice Award went
to M House, Casuarina Beach, by
Tangram Architects.
Commendations went to Byron at
Byron Resort and Spa by Haysom
Architects; Mermaid Beach
Residence by WIM Architects; 5 Beech Lane, Casuarina Beach, by
Scott Carpenter Architect; Banora
Point Multi-Purpose Centre by
Fulton Trotter and Partners; Denaby House, Currumbin Waters
by Shane Denman Designs; GH1
Medicine and Oral Health, Griffith
University, Southport, by Phillips
Smith Conwell Architects; Poinciana Residence, Mermaid
Beach, and Sunset Residence,
Surfers Paradise, by Paul Uhlmann
Architects; and APVC, Robina, by
Nettleton Tribe Partnership Qld //
Brisbane Building of the Year is the
Sir James Foots Building, St Lucia,
by Wilson Architects. Brisbane
House of the Year is Gully House,
Yeronga, by Bligh Voller Nield in
association with Daniel R Fox.
Commendations went to Nanna’s
Verandah, Highgate Hill, by Jeremy
Salmon Architect; Roma Street
Parkland by Malcolm Middleton
Architects on behalf of PARC
Consultants (DEM Design/
Gillespies Aust/Landplan/Civitas); River House, Tennyson, by Mitchell
Design; Midvale Lane Houses, Mt
Ommaney, and Linear
Auchenflower, by Kevin Hayes
Architects; Keema Complex,
Springwood, by WIM Architects; Chapel Hill House by Owen and
Vokes; London Woolstore,
Teneriffe, and 171 Project, Bulimba,
by Push; Beckman House, Clayfield,
and Reliance Worldwide Factory
and Offices, Eagle Farm, by Biscoe
Wilson Architects; St Stephen’s
Cathedral Northern Development,
Brisbane CBD, by Conrad Gargett
Architecture; Deka Showroom,
Fortitude Valley, by Cottee Parker
Architects; Building 8, UQ Ipswich
Campus, and The James and Mary
Emelia Mayne Centre, St Lucia, by
Wilson Architects; 61 Brookes
Street, Bowen Hills, by Phillips
Smith Conwell Architects; UQ
Chemistry Building Lab Fitout,
St Lucia, by m3architecture; Warry
Street Residences, Fortitude Valley,
by Cox Rayner Architects; Boe
Lawyers, Petrie Tce, by Richard
Kirk Architect; Shroud House,
West End, by Phorm A + D and Carroll Go-Sam; Altura, New
Farm, by Shane Plazibat Architect; Stanley Terrace, Taringa, by M J M
Workshop; Westpac Customer
Contact Centre, Brisbane CBD, by
Ceccato Hall and Associates,
architects in association with
Anthony John Architect; Holy
Spirit Home Apartment Precinct,
Carseldine, by Bickerton Masters
Architecture; Newstead Terraces
by Arkhefield; 99 Melbourne
Street, South Brisbane, by Peddle
Thorp Architects; Brookes Street
House, Fortitude Valley, and Violet
Street House, Yeronga, by James
Russell Architect // Sunshine
Coast Building of the Year is
Viridian Residences, Noosa Heads,
by John Mainwaring and
Associates. Commendations went
to Lend Lease Sale Centre,
Yaroomba, by Planit Architecture
and Management; Viridian Houses,
Noosa Heads, by John Mainwaring
and Associates; Noosa Valley
House, Doonan, by Robinson
Architects; Alex Forest Bungalows,
Alexandra Headland, by Ken Down
Architects; Peregian Beach House
by Geoffrey Pie Architect; The
Breakers, Noosa Heads, by Foster
Designs; and C Bargara by PCA
Architects // The Central
Queensland commendation went
to Roche Labs and Aquaria, Heron
Island, by Dimitriou Architects
and Interior Designers // Darling
Downs commendations went to
Kingaroy Visitor Information
Centre by Studio 39; Ballandean
House by Arkhefield; and Astonlee
Residence, Crossdale, by The
Buchan Group Architects //
Mackay commendations went to
Rothiemay Place and DGL Building
by Gordon Gould Ipson Architects.
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UNSW Biomedical Research
Building by Lahz Nimmo Architects
with Wilson Architects.
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Wilson Architects’ winning design
for Armidale War Memorial Library.
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Allen Jack + Cottier has a new
warehouse conversion studio in
Sydney, combining their three
offices into one // Peter Mould is
the new NSW Government
Architect and General Manager of
the Government Architect’s Office.
Peter has been Assistant
Government Architect since 1998
and Acting Government Architect
since July 2005 // 900 friends and
admirers attended a memorial for
Harry Seidler at the MLC Centre in
early April // Bovis Lend Lease has
been appointed by The GPT Group
to design and construct the Rouse
Hill Town Centre, a communitybased
mixed-use development in
north-western Sydney // UNSW
architecture and design students
have produced concepts for a
clubhouse for people with mental
illness, which were displayed at
the NSW Parliament House during
Schizophrenia Awareness Week.
When completed in early 2007, the
clubhouse will be available to the
3,000 families affected by mental
illness in the Illawarra region //
The four shortlisted architects for
the competition to redevelop the
Newcastle Region Art Gallery are
Lab architecture studio, FJMT,
PTW Architects with Schreiber
Hamilton Architecture (Newcastle-based)
and Alexander Tzannes
Associates // UNSW has appointed
Lahz Nimmo Architects, in
association with Wilson Architects,
as lead architectural consultant for
the design and documentation of a
new Biomedical Research Building
at the Kensington Campus //
Wilson Architects has won a
design competition for the new
Armidale War Memorial Library //
Harry Seidler: A Tribute, curated
by Jacqueline Urford, shows at
Customs House until 6 August.
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Tangentyere Design has become a
registered architectural company
with the Northern Territory
Architects Board. It is the first
Aboriginal-owned registered
architectural company in Australia
// Build Up Design is documenting
a new office for Gundjiehmi
Aboriginal Corporation, the
traditional owners of a part of
Kakadu National Park.
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| SOUTH AUSTRALIA |
Adelaide’s City Central Tower 1
has become the largest building in
Australia to receive a 5 Green Star
rating from the Green Building
Council of Australia.
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Woods Bagot has designed two
buildings, totalling 50,000 m2, in
Civic, Canberra, which target a
4.5 AGBR and have been designed
as a new benchmark in workplace
standards in Canberra //
Controversy surrounds the design
of the new Humanities and Science
Campus Place redevelopment of
the National Library of Australia
forecourt by Spackman Mossop
and Lahz Nimmo. The project
proposes an elliptical forecourt, to
bring together existing buildings. Criticism concerns the removal of
two avenues of poplar and plane
trees, which will be replaced with
river red gums, brittle gums, iron
barks, poplars and holly oaks //
A new ACT Memorial to recognize
Canberrans and those associated
with the city who have served
Australia overseas has been
designed by local artist Matthew
Harding for a site at the
intersection of the Ainslie
Avenue pedestrian area and
London Circuit.
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| WESTERN AUSTRALIA |
Curtin University graduate Paige
Plummer has been awarded the
2005 Peter Hunt Travel Prize //
Philip Kirke has been promoted
to senior associate with Hassell.
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| VICTORIA |
Mark Kelly, former Woods Bagot
managing partner, Europe, has
returned to Melbourne to drive the
Woods Bagot strategic consulting
and design studio’s specialized
buildings business // After a
three-stage selection process, John
Wardle Architects has won the
commission for the new Exercise
Science and Sport Precinct and
Learning Commons at Victoria
University’s Footscray campus //
Entries are open for the ARBV
Architectural Services Award,
which focuses on client evaluation
of their architects’ service,
management and communication.
Clients are to nominate their
architect by 30 June // The City of
Melbourne’s green office building
Council House 2 has won three
out of seven awards at the 2006
Eco-Buy Awards for Excellence //
Dennis Payne and Douglas
Pattenden, formerly from Fish
Payne Pattenden Viney, have
formed a new practice, Payne
Pattenden Architects // Homo
Faber: Modelling Architecture is
on display at the Discovery Centre
Foyer, Melbourne Museum, until
2 July // Alan Synman, founder of
SJB Architects, has joined BST
Consulting // Lab architecture
studio has appointed Ann Lau as a
design associate // Kestie Lane has
joined Woodhead International
as a senior interior designer //
Eureka Tower, the world’s tallest
residential building, by Fender
Katsalidis, is complete.
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