Architecture
Architecture
"When you're spending time, for example, with an architect in the houses they've built (often staying overnight to get last light and early morning shots) it's a fantastic experience." Award-winning filmmaker Catherine Hunter discusses her life and work, which spans documentaries on a number of artists and photographers, as well as architects Glenn Murcutt and Cox.
Set on a windswept hillside overlooking Bass Straight sits a modular holiday home by Modscape that allows the epic coastal location to be experienced.
Designs for Melbourne's five new train stations as part of the Metro Tunnel project have been revealed. The renders show designs that focus on natural light and enhancing the pedestrian experience.
AR conducts an informal post occupancy evaluation of Lýtingur house with the owners María Hrönn Gunnarsdóttoir and Hörđur Kristjánsson.
The City of Melbourne has unveiled artist’s impressions of its $35 million plan for over six acres of new public open space on Southbank Boulevard and Dodds Street, Southbank. The plans include 1.05 km of dedicated, separated bicycle lanes, water sensitive urban design and flood mitigation, upgraded tram and bus stops, including the potential for ‘green’ tram tracks, improved biodiversity and a critical neighbourhood space for Southbank.
Bookings for Open House Melbourne's ticketed tours open this Monday, July 17, so ADR has compiled a list of some of the must-see homes and buildings from this year's ticketed selection.
This week we meet Hiromi Lauren, who worked with Harry Seidler for around 20 years and is now the director of her own studio, Shiro Architects. Lauren shares the lessons she learnt from Seidler and discusses winning the Australian Institute of Architects 2017 Queensland state commercial architecture award.
Mission critical describes any system that contributes to the successful operation of a business or organisation, and buildings are now playing a role.
In an increasingly crowded market, retail chain IGA has employed the services of design firm loopcreative to fashion a point of difference for its Summer Hill store. With Coles, Woolworths and Aldi – as well as new online operators – competing aggressively on price, the owners of the Summer Hill store are targeting the high-end […]
When people like Bill and Melinda Gates give away millions to philanthropic causes there are always those people who point the finger and say it's easy to be charitable when you're a billionaire. But what would they say to a tiny architectural practice in Denmark, which manages to do good and still be a successful business?
Interest in cross laminated timber (CLT) as a construction material is reaching new heights here in Australia with the announcement the world’s tallest timber-engineered office tower is to be built in Brisbane. CLT is a technique whereby layers of wood are glued together under high pressure with the grain of each perpendicular to the that […]
The overall curators of the 16th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia have announced the theme for the upcoming event. Irish architects Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara of Grafton Architects have titled the exhibition Freespace, describing it as “a generosity of spirit and a sense of humanity at the core of architecture’s agenda.” […]
Big name international architectural firms are spearheading a number of large-scale developments slated to take place in Sydney over the coming years. SANAA, 3XN and Foster + Partners have all been awarded contracts for major projects that look set to reinvigorate key areas of the city. Perhaps the most transformative of these is the redevelopment […]
Preserved plants provide real greenery that needs no sun or water, that lasts years. Stem & Stamen founder, Fleur Anderson, discusses the technology which allows plants an almost eternal life.
Six finalists have been announced in the esteemed Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture, including architecture collective Sibling.
Rowan Opat of Opat Architects designed a new holiday house for his clients in regional Victoria that is considerate of its surrounds.
UNSW has invented a way to make small-scale recycling cost-effective, even for the most problematic and complex wastes, as Veena Sahajwalla writes.
The journey from a set of problems presented by a client to the architects’ final solution can take many different roads. Debbie-Lyn Ryan from McBride Charles Ryan (MCR) says this road requires a combination of a flexible approach and using the right tools for the job. “Normally the client will give us a brief of […]
Co-working spaces have continued to pop up, both in Australia and particularly overseas, so much so that they’ve almost become ubiquitous. Madeleine Joyce, an interior design associate at Architectus, recently experienced a gamut of co-working spaces across London. ADR asks Joyce to share some of her insights – from bottom-up design methods through to the […]
The Naomi Milgrom Foundation has unveiled its 2017 design for the new MPavilion, which was designed by Netherlands-based architects Rem Koolhaas and David Gianotten of Office for Metropolitan Architectures (OMA).
Can an architectural practice survive the demise of a ‘starchitect’? Recent events have prompted Edwin Heathcote and Simon Nelson to tackle this timely topic.
Melbourne's iconic Kino Cinema turns 30 this year and ADR interviews Jeffery Copolov of Bates Smart and the original architect, Peter Mills of Mills Gorman.
Global architecture practice HDR acquired Rice Daubney in 2013. As a final step in the acquisition process, HDR | Rice Daubney will now be known as HDR.
In South Townsville, 9Point9 Architects looked to the cities for a flexible model when it came to designing a new house for a young professional couple.
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