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 Good Environmental Choice
Australia (GECA) and the RAIA
are conducting the Sustainable
Architecture and Interiors National
Tour – Specifying Green, providing
practical methodologies for the
environmental assessment of
building products // The Urban
Development Institute of Australia
(UDIA) has added its voice to
mounting calls from business and
community groups for the Howard
government to engage with the
future of our cities. The 2006 UDIA
State of the Land report looks at
why the future of our cities is
critical to the economy and society
// Rapt! 20 Contemporary Artists
from Japan is a programme of
exhibitions, residencies and public
events showcasing contemporary
Japanese art in Australia. See
rapt.jpf-sydney.org // Entries for
the 2007 Interior Design Awards
open on the 20 November and
close on 16 February 2007. See
www.interiordesignawards.com.au
// The 2007 Dulux Colour Awards
are now open for submission. See
www.dulux.com.au // Walter
Barda Design has won the
inaugural Boral design award,
A Different Pitch. The winning
team includes Walter Barda,
Jaie Midei and Adrian Esdaile. Finalists were Shem Kelder; Milenko Podnar, Wayne Reid
and Tony Cotter from Latitude
Architects; and Shaun Carter,
Linda Matthews and Anna
Williamson from Carter
Williamson // Carr Design Group
has won the 2006 Fly Forbo & Fly
to Europe competition // The 50th
Anniversary winners of the 2006
Sisalation Prize are Beverley
Garlick, Guy Luscombe and Diane
Jones. They will edit Take 6, with
the working title Good Design for
Older and Disabled People // The
finalists of the Lockwood Design a
Lever competition are Peter
Prysten, Toby Horrocks, Rusk
Mathew, Lucas Chirmside and
William Smart // Stephen Collier
has won the 2006 Lysaght Research
Scholarship. He receives $45,000
to produce an exhibition in Sydney
which extends an earlier Barcelona
exhibition City Corners, curated
by Manuel de Solă Morales. The
Sydney exhibition will be done in
collaboration with Solă Morales.
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Greg Sexton has been elevated
to associate director at Conrad
Gargett Architecture. In addition,
Ian Mitchell has joined their team
// Hastings Street in Noosa, is
undergoing a $7 million upgrade,
designed by a project team led by
Architectus.
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| NEW SOUTH WALES |
Greg Isaac has been appointed
as a partner of Fulton Trotter and
Partners Architects, after managing
the Sydney office since 2002 //
Allen Jack + Cottier has appointed
Cindy Ch’ng, Matthew McNeil
and Fergus Cumming as new
associates. Jane Johnson, Adrian
Tarrant, John Gunnell, Daniel
Staebe, Russell Parker, Mark
Corbet and Tony Spragg have been
appointed as senior associates //
Julia Borghesi has been appointed
as senior designer at Hassell //
Pittendrigh, Shinkfield and Bruce
has joined EDAW Australia,
becoming part of the EDAW
AECOM global design company //
Sam Crawford Architects and
FOCHTA (Friends of Claude Ho
in Thyolo Association) held a
cocktail party to raise awareness
concerning orphaned,
AIDS-affected children in Malawi. The proceeds will go to building a
new youth centre in Thyolo in
Malawi, East Africa // PTW
Architects has appointed Rod
Brown, Michael Yip, Koichi
Takada, Chris Bosse, Kathy Pal,
Katerina Vrdoljak and Terry
O’Rourke as associates. Siobhan
McInerney has been appointed as
an associate director. John
Blanchard has been appointed as
associate at PTW Architects’ China
office and Jun Sakaguchi has been
appointed practice director at their
office in Japan // A multi-milliondollar
model of the Sydney Opera
House, built by Australian
modelmaker Harold “Bill” Lambert, has been reassembled
after being discovered in a
suburban warehouse. It was
displayed at USydney’s Faculty
of Architecture, and is now on
permanent display at the Opera
House // Sydney Open 2006 is
being held on 5 November 2006. Coordinated by the Historic
Houses Trust, this one-day event
features 65 buildings // Eeles
Trelease has appointed Mary
Randles and Robin Yeap as senior
associates. John Wilson and Janene
Fowlstone have also joined Eeles
Trelease as senior architects and
Christopher Hewson has joined as
a graduate architect // The Master
Builders Association NSW (MBA),
the RAIA NSW Chapter and
National Association of Women
in Construction NSW Chapter
(NAWIC) have signed a
Memorandum of Understanding,
agreeing to work together to
provide a mentoring programme
for young women entrepreneurs. The programme, Constructive
Mentoring, will mentor managers
of small business in the building,
construction and design industries. It is an Australian Governmentfunded
service under the Building
Entrepreneurship in Small
Business Programme // A
collaborative timber design studio
was held at UNSW to strengthen
a partnership between Australian
and Japanese architecture students. This was attended by a group of
senior staff and senior students of
the UNSW Faculty of the Built
Environment and the Japanese
Gifu Academy of Forest Science
and Culture // Architectural items
at the State Library of NSW have
been brought online at
www.atmitchell.com/journeys/arts
/arch/. These range from the
dwellings of Indigenous
Australians and the first European
buildings recorded, through to
early architects of the nineteenth
century and internationally
recognized architects of the
twentieth century. This is
sponsored by Woodhead,
DesignInc and Harry Seidler (dec.) and Penelope Seidler // The
Sydney Pecha Kucha will be held
on the last Thursday of every
second month, in the bar at the
Commercial Travellers Association. See www.pecha-kucha.org/sydney
// Clive Lucas, Stapleton &
Partners has appointed historian
Meg Quinlisk as an associate //
The winner in the Metal Building
Products category of the ACT and
NSW ASI Steel Awards is Lacoste
Plus Stevenson Architects for
Barcode – Recall Information
Centre, with Hassell receiving a
high commendation for the RTA
Crash Test Facility.
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| TASMANIA |
The first Pecha Kucha night was
held in Hobart. Presentations were
made by Mark Dytham and Astrid
Klein (via QuickTime), Terroir,
1+2 Architecture, James Newitt
(artist), Room11 (designers), John
Vella (artist), Jusy Phillips (artist)
and Todd Houstein (engineer) //
Janine Saunders has resigned from
her role as RAIA TAS chapter
manager // The RAIA TAS Chapter
attended a mediation hearing to
elaborate its representation to the
proposed Carters Landing
development at Strahan, on the
west coast of Tasmania // Sam
Aukland has launched a new
practice, Aukland Architecture,
based in Hobart // The debate
surrounding the controversial
Ralphs Bay canal development
proposal by the Walker
Corporation continues. It has
been approved as a project of
state significance, and will be
considered beyond usual planning
processes // A multi-million-dollar
mixed-use development, with a
major retail focus in central
Launceston is being designed by
Sydney’s Buchan Group and GHD.
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| SOUTH AUSTRALIA |
The Christie Walk Ecocity Project,
Adelaide, by Ecopolis Architects,
has won the Silver Prize in the
international Ryutaro Hashimoto
APFED Awards for Good Practices.
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| AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY |
The Capitals Alliance Conference
will be held in Canberra in January
2007. Washington DC’s Architect
of the Capitol, Alan Hantman, is a
keynote speaker // Sophie Clement
is the new chapter manager of the
RAIA ACT Chapter.
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| WESTERN AUSTRALIA |
Construction of the Perth Arena,
being designed by Ashton Raggatt
McDougall, Cameron Chisholm
and Nicol and USA specialist
consultants RTKL, is expected to
start in April 2007 // Decisions are
still pending on the Old Treasury
Building refurbishment designed
by Peter Elliott Architecture with
Donaldson + Warn, Sandover
Pinder and Palassis Architects //
2006 Gold Medallist Kerry Hill
presented his AS Hook Address at
UWA as part of Architecture Week.
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The greenhouse in Melbourne’s
City Square, the site for a two-week
collaborative study of the city’s
public spaces.
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The exhibition The House on the
Hill: A portrait of Chancellor &
Patrick’s McCraith House,
Dromana, 1953 shows at the
Mornington Peninsula Regional
Gallery from the 29 November –
25 February 2007 // Daniel Seyd of
In Site has won the commercial
category for Edition 2 of the Corian
Design Awards for an environment
at Melbourne Central’s Food
Lounge // Jeremy Ham, director of
FUNKarchitects and lecturer at
UDeakin, has received a 2006
Carrick Australian Award for
University Teaching citation for
Outstanding contributions to
Student Learning // Open Studio
has been shortlisted in an ideas
competition to develop Matiatia
Bay, a coastal site on Waiheke
Island in the Auckland Harbour //
An Architects for Peace pro bono
launch was held at CH2 in
Melbourne, with principal speaker
Mick Pearse // Droog Design: A
Human Touch is an exhibition at
the National Design Centre on until
10 December 2006 at the old
Melbourne Theatre Company site. See www.nationaldesigncentre. com // The 10th World Conference
of Historical Cities was held in
Ballarat on the theme Sustainable
Historical Cities: Economics,
Preservation and Visions for the
Future // Hassell has curated an
exhibition of their work which was
on display to the public at their
new Melbourne studio // Williams
Ross Architects has appointed
Chris Hose and Gray Barton as
associate directors // DARK, an
exhibition of Dianne Peacock’s
dye-line printing, was held at the
new DireTribe Gallery in Carlton
// Denton Corker Marshall is
designibg a new medical research
facility for the Walter and Eliza
Hall Institute of Medical Research
in Parkville // Meaghan Dwyer
spoke as part of the Architects for
Peace monthly talk programme on
the topic Constructing an Urban
Design Case. The Favela Bairro
Project: Mending the City Fabric //
John Wardle Architects has
appointed Stefan Mee to join John
Wardle as principal and Meaghan
Dwyer and Bill Krotiris as senior
associates // The RMIT Urban
Architecture Laboratory
International Housing conference,
titled Re Housing, was held in early
October. International keynote
speakers included Mark Brearley,
principal urban designer at the
Greater London Authority’s Urban
Design Unit, and Robert Breugman,
Professor of Art History at UIllinois
and author of Sprawl: a compact
history // A small greenhouse in
Melbourne’s City Square was a
glowing presence for two weeks in
August as part of Atelier Bow- Wow’s contribution to Rapt! 20
Contemporary Artists from Japan. This was used as a study of public
spaces in Melbourne. Collaborators
were Taira Nishizawa (Tokyo
architect), four students from the
University of Tsukuba and the
Tokyo Institute of Technology,
NMBW Architecture Studio, and
Mauro Baracco and twelve
students from RMIT University.
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| FIXES |
• Nghia Pham tells us that his
name and that of Adriana
Stelmach were supplied misspelt
in the credits for Deakin Central
(Architecture Australia vol 95 no 5
Sept/Oct, 2006). • Michael Nicholson tells us that
some of the photography credits
for the NSW RAIA Awards were
jumbled (Architecture Australia vol
95 no 4, July/Aug 2006). The correct credits are: 21 Alberta
Street by Nation Viney, photograph
Michael Nicholson; Five new
terrace houses and gallery in
Woollahra by John Grove Architect,
photograph Willem Reithmeier; 36/37 Squadron Headquarters,
RAAF, by Bligh Voller Nield,
photograph by Brett Boardman; 23–25 Egan Street, by Mackenzie
Pronk Architects, Julie Mackenzie,
Shack Design and Kieran
McInerney, architects in
association, photographs
Oliver Berlin.
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