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.
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.
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.
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