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The price for public artwork is often high, but if a council, investor or developer makes the right decision, it can be the drawcard that leads to significant economic gains. In AR144, Fenella Kernebone investigates the role that public art plays and how it can become a destination in its own right.
This week, the architectural community lost Italian academic and architect Romaldo Giurgola at 95 years of age. Internationally-renouned for his work on Parliament House in Canberra, Giurgola was also behind a number of other significant works across the country. ADR takes a look at the architect's built legacy on Australian shores.
“From a distance the building appears to ripple and bulge, while close-up the individual apartments become legible. The undulating form has a performative effect by minimising the wind downdraft at street level.” AR magazine talks to Caleb Smith of Elenberg Fraser about the studio's golden tower, Abode318.
Australian designers and architects know about workplace design. We lead the world with innovation and creativity that has become our own. The new Melbourne AGL office space designed by HASSELL is yet another workplace that perfectly fits the form and function bill, but offers so much more in substance and quality, as inside magazine finds out.
"Most clients are now starting to see the value of landscape, and see their responsibility to create healthier and more sustainable projects and cities." Matthew Mackay of HASSELL discusses the challenges, changes, and excitement surrounding the creation of green spaces within our rapidly growing cities.
Richard Hassell, director of Singapore-based practice, WOHA – pioneer of sustainable, tall buildings – talks to AR magazine about liveability, high-rise in the tropics and a new book that explores both.
Renowned paper engineer Benja (Paperform), has created the chapel, which he describes as a "cross between architecture and poetry", for Australia’s first art and design led funeral home.
Will future architects be called upon to provide design thinking consultancy as their primary output? Michael Smith, director of Atelier Red + Black, gives his insight on the thought-provoking conversations held at the National Conference in Adelaide.
Branch Studio's name refers to its orchard setting and also to an energetic, open-ended growth of design services, with founders Brad Wray and Nicholas Russo keen for the practice to develop offshoot services in graphic and furniture design. Sandra Tan takes a look at some of the practice's best work for AR magazine.
In the latest issue of AR magazine, Ray Edgar speaks to Dr Kate Shaw, an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow whose current research focuses on urban regeneration in the 21st century.
Designed by Melbourne architectural firm Kavellaris Urban Design (KUD), a new mixed-use urban village, which will include Melbourne's first elevated Olympic running track, has been revealed as part of a planned $600 million development in Footscray.
"We’re facing a crisis. I call it ‘ecofatigue’. Many architects and designers feel sustainability is a bit of a fad, or a style. Almost constraining enough to rebel against." Steele Associates architect and founder, Oliver Steele, discusses the challenges and rewards of innovating sustainable home design.
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