Learning spaces of tomorrow
As universities look to better prepare students for ‘the real world’, should the design of education facilities be learning lessons from workplace design? Woods Bagot Principal Sarah Ball reports on some of the practice’s latest research into education design of the future.
Resilience, Toughness and Damage
In Christchurch, ‘resilience’ is a phrase used extensively by the media and government to try to contain the traumatised city’s afterlife. Yet as Lara Strongman identifies, perhaps this usage is a sleight of hand that conceals more than it reveals.
Wither the Green Award?
Every year the AIA’s Sustainability Award attracts controversy and questions as to its relevancy. Are we any closer to addressing its perceived problems, or is it time to let the award go?
Venice Pavilion: A missed opportunity?
Is an invitation-only competition for the Australian Pavilion in Venice a missed opportunity for the architecture profession? Philip Cox, Andrew Maynard and Penleigh Boyd respond.
The Australian Pavilion in Venice: art over architecture, or privilege over opportunity?
A closed competition for the new Australia pavilion in Venice shows that art still takes precedence over architecture. Worse still, it smacks of elitism.
Racism: An Architectural Litmus Test?
Pankaj Oswal’s trophy home in Perth has attracted a blizzard of criticism for its ostentation and gargantuan scale. As Christopher Vernon reports, however, the censure reeks of hypocrisy, or worse – racism.
Designing for the tropics
How should we design for the hot, humid conditions of far north Queensland? Woods Bagot principal, Mark Damant, discusses the particular considerations that inform tropical architecture.
A decade of design: Art
Art consultant Virginia Wilson on her role commissioning and curating art for architecture projects, and the problem with public sculpture.
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Sydney Opera House immortalised in Lego
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The Beresford
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Russell & George win at World Retail Awards
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Resilient: the evolving terminology of ecological development
