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The building is the result of an international competition held in 2007 and is Zaha Hadid Architects’s first building in Hong Kong – coming thirty years after Hadid’s famous competition design for the Hong Kong Peak Leisure Club in 1983.
The SAHMRI project was the first iteration in our ‘from concept to completion’ initiative. It was showcased in both AR130–Pawn and AR134–Authority, also appearing as a featured video.
Container living is something most of us think of as sustainable, practical, economical and generally a good idea.
While the project was designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, the conceptual and detailed lighting for the internal public spaces was created by lighting designers from Arup.
Applications for the 2015 Multidisciplinary Australian Danish Exchange by the Opera House are now open. Contributing online editorial assistant, Sara Anne Best, speaks to last year’s inaugural recipients about their time in Denmark and the value of learning to work collaboratively.
SAHMRI was the first iteration in 'from concept to completion'. It was showcased in both AR130–Pawn and AR134–Authority, also appearing as a featured video.
AR editor, Michael Holt, and AR contributing editor (Australia), Marissa Looby, are published as part of BI's first publication, Free. Their essay is 'The Cannibalisation of Architecture'.
An excerpt from The Landscape Imagination: The Collected Essays of James Corner 1990–2010 by James Corner.
The new FEIT building joins other new landmark buildings within the rapidly transforming and revitalised western gateway to Sydney’s CBD.
Following on from the release of AR135–Elements and continuing a research strand that dates back to 2009, AR editors Michael Holt and Marissa Looby discuss the wall in the works of Herzog & de Meuron.
The advisory group, which judges all the entries in the design research competition, has expanded to include AR Asia Pacific editor Michael Holt among other practitioners and academics.
Renowned architectural designer and theorist, Sir Peter Cook (Cook Robotham Architectural Bureau) designed the Abedian School of Architecture. The project was featured in AR134–Authority.
In celebration of the versatility of timber, the challenge is to produce all projects using a single material – American hardwood.
The project is Charter Hall's $175 million development at the gateway to the Gasworks precinct in Brisbane.
The report outlines broad trends and identifies a number of worrying issues that the profession will need to work together to address.
In addition to the 2014 ACT Architecture Awards, the winners of the Australian Institute of Architects’ Light Rail Station Ideas Competition were also announced at the event.
This research exhibition presents not only the latest building and technological renderings, but also an academic agenda with new solutions and strategies developed for the long-term.
Are design tools and technologies at the behest of the graduate or are they its downfall? Will architecture practices further succumb to the need for speed? Annabel Koeck responds to Joanne Taylor's article on 'Design Tools and the Urgency of Architecture'.
Hortus is an exciting new development at Melbourne's Docklands – a temporary pavilion housing an installation, cafe and community space.
According to De Carolis Constructions Managing Director Matt De Carolis there appears to be a double standard when it comes to the application of environmental and sustainability standards to Australian buildings.
Robin Gibson was Queensland’s most influential modern architect and that influence was exerted by his design for the riverside Cultural Precinct at the heart of modern Brisbane. But do the buildings perform to Gibson’s intentions? The author asked three expert users for their judgement of the buildings and their public reception, thirty years later.
While its creative green project will feature in the ‘Alpitecture meets Biennale – Topographic Structures’ exhibition at the Palazzo Bollani, its award‐winning solution for revitalising old buildings will feature in ‘Augmented Australia’ exhibition at the Australian Pavilion.
The deregulation and subsequent increase in university course fees delivers a profound challenge to the architecture profession. Will future architectural students be able to absorb the increased cost of education, or will many decide that the return on investment is financially unaffordable?
The Association of Consulting Architects (ACA) surveyed architects to find out what does the budget mean for practices and the profession? The results reveal a strong concern about the future.
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