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"The atrium is my favourite part of the design. It really makes you feel like you're in one environment and I think for the students, it will help them feel an ownership of the space." David Tweedie, director at Hayball, discusses the practice's latest vertical school project, which is situated in Melbourne's Richmond.
Diébédo Francis Kéré, founder of Kéré Architecture, has been announced as designer of the 2017 Serpentine Pavilion. The temporary summer pavilion, which was established by the Serpentine Galleries in 2000, is located in London’s Kensington Gardens in Hyde Park each year and designed by an architect who has not yet completed a building in England. […]
The Naomi Milgrom Foundation today announced that the commission for the fourth annual MPavilion has been awarded to internationally renowned Netherlands-based OMA and will be designed by Rem Koolhaas and David Gianotten.
Image above, GT2P Image courtesy of GT2P. Melbourne is again proving itself to be the centre of all things design with the impending extravaganza that will be Melbourne Design Week. This 10-day long program features exhibitions, talks, tours, workshops, parties and other happenings and has been developed by the Departments of Contemporary Design and Architecture and […]
Now in its 11th year, the awards celebrate the contemporary and innovative use of clay bricks, concrete masonry and roof tiles in Australian architecture. This year's Think Brick Award categories include commercial, residential, masonry, landscape and terracotta roof.
The highly regarded British architect Sir David Adjaye OBE will be talking at Melbourne’s MPavilion on Monday 13th February. Internationally respected, Adjaye’s work spans continents and scales including the multi-faceted facade of the Skolkovo Moscow School of Management, the refurbishment of the Nobel Peace Centre in Oslo, along with the most recently completed New Smithsonian […]
"We’ve been working on this refurbishment for 10 years. The entire public realm of Rialto will change." With its $200 million refurbishment due for completion in eight to 10 weeks, ADR speaks to Rialto joint owner Lorenz Grollo about the massive project.
Inspired by the ‘Queenslander’ vernacular, the 52-metre tower is comprised cross-laminated timber and glue-laminated timber and will be built in the Brisbane Showgrounds development.
Edric Choo and a team from Malaysian architectural practice O2DA have been chosen as the winner in an international design competition to masterplan and design a new eco-village for orphaned and abandoned children in Kenya.
The simplest solutions often have the biggest impact. That is certainly the case for Christian Wagstaff and Keith Courtney’s House of Mirrors installation that has been travelling around the country in true carnival style. “The design is based on an equilateral triangle with all mirrors angled in changing directions, reflecting hundreds of mirrors in a […]
With previous winning designs by John Wardle Architects and M@ STUDIO Architects, the competition calls on architects to submit proposals for the activation of the Grollo Equiset Garden, through the intervention of a participatory, evocative and thought-provoking work of temporary architecture.
This year, the program takes on the theme of ‘Bold, Forward, Tilted’, while once again recognising outstanding uses of colour across commercial and residential spaces.
ADR takes a look back at the past three Australian Global Awards winners of the Shaw Contract Design Awards, each with a unique design story to tell.
Woods Bagot's Global Development Officer Mark Mitcheson-Low and Orion Towers Director Mark Damant talk to ADR about the practice's two upcoming projects – the World Trade Centre towers in Perth and Orion Towers on the Gold Coast.
Five innovative designs have been shortlisted, each of which is now under construction and will be ‘open for inspection’ and auctioned off in March.
Kengo Kuma, among a slew of other noted architects from around the world, will be chairing an international design competition that promotes peace. The Kaira Looro International Architecture competition is calling for young architects (including groups) from around the world to submit their speculative work. The competition aims to create a holy symbol through architecture […]
Image above by Peter Clarke. The Buildings Appeal Board has come down with a ruling for the Lacrosse Tower in Docklands, Melbourne – requiring the high-risk balcony cladding to be removed. In November 2014, a fire tore up the north-eastern side of the building, sparked by a cigarette disposed of in a plastic container on […]
A new international publishing prize has been developed by the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, in a major new initiative for the gallery’s annual Melbourne Art Book Fair. The Cornish Family Prize for Art and Design Publishing is the first of its kind in the Asia-Pacific region, and will award $15,000 AUD for the […]
Each year, UK architectural news publication Building Design (BD) surveys architecture studios from all over the globe to compile a report on the biggest 100 practices in the world. These practices are ranked by the number of fee-earning architects they employ, and this year, six Australian studios made the cut.
The Australian Institute of Architects is calling for expressions of interest for the role of creative director for the Australian exhibition at the 16th International Architecture Biennale in Venice in 2018. The exhibition will be the second to be situated within the recently completed permanent pavilion, located in the Giardini and designed by Denton Corker […]
The Victorian Government has released details of its Better Apartments Design Standards, which will come into effect in March 2017. The two-year long process was undertaken in close consultation with a range of industry experts, including the Victorian Chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects. The standards aim to ensure that apartments are designed for […]
Above: Medibank Place by HASSELL. Photo by Peter Bennetts/Earl Carter. Following last week’s wrap-up of 2016’s most popular interiors, here we take a look at the year’s most popular architecture projects. 7. Abode318’s shifting façade “From a distance, the building appears to ripple and bulge, while close-up the individual apartments become legible. The undulating form has a […]
Acute House by OOF! Architecture. Photo by Nic Granleese. “These awards recognise Victorian designers and architects who go beyond the local to influence design thinking internationally,” says Minister of Creative Industries Martin Foley. Winning designs were given accolades across eight categories at the Victorian Premier’s Design Awards last night. Celebrating design and innovation in architecture, […]
Above: supermanoeuvre’s entry. Render courtesy supermanoeuvre. Five architects have been shortlisted in the competition to redesign Frankston train station. Minister for Public Transport Jacinta Allan and Member for Frankston Paul Edbrooke joined the finalists today at the Frankston Revitalisation Hub to view their designs. The finalists include: Luke Farrugia and Andrew Shaper – both young practitioners on […]
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