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Melbourne's newest art museum set to open | ArchitectureAu
WEBFeb 6, 2018 · A new contemporary art museum, which will house more than 300 works by 53 Australian artists, will open on 9 March. The gallery, known as Buxton Contemporary, is located at the University of Melbourne’s Victorian College of the Arts in Southbank. It is named after property developer and art collector Michael Buxton who, in …
Shortlist revealed: 2022 Australian Interior Design Awards
WEBMar 30, 2022 · The shortlist for the 19th annual Australian Interior Design Awards has been announced. The awards program, a partnership event of the Design Institute of Australia and Architecture Media’s Artichoke magazine, recognize and celebrate interior design excellence.. In 2022, 450 entries were received, of which 185 were shortlisted across seven primary categories: Retail Design, Hospitality ...
Winners revealed: 2021 Houses Awards - ArchitectureAu
WEBJul 30, 2021 · A deceptively simple house that can be adapted in the future into three compact dwellings has taken out the top prize at the 2021 Houses Awards. “This resourceful home reminds us that you don’t need an excessive amount of money nor a large footprint to live well; nothing here is superfluous and every detail is carefully considered,” said the jury of Three House by John Ellway Architect ...
Australian cities among the largest and least densely settled in the ...
WEBApr 20, 2017 · Australia’s most populous city, Sydney, is 43rd in terms of the size of its urban footprint, at 2,037 square kilometres. It is also the country’s most dense, with 1,900 people per square kilometre, although internationally it ranks among the least densely populated cities in the world at 955. Brisbane is the least densely populated state ...
Newly completed Green Square Library and Plaza wins global …
WEBDec 21, 2018 · Sydney’s Green Square Library and Plaza, designed by Stewart Hollenstein in association with Stewart Architecture, has won the Architectural Review Library Award 2018. The project was judged against libraries, and other “buildings for books,” from all over the world built since January 2013. “This ‘community pantechnicon’ unites ...
First look: Art Gallery of New South Wales expansion
WEBNov 29, 2022 · The long-awaited expansion of the Art Gallery of New South Wales – Sydney Modern by SANAA and Architectus – will open to the public on Saturday 3 December. “It has been a wonderful honour to design such an important public building in Sydney,” said SANAA directors Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa. “Working closely with the Art Gallery ...
Robin Boyd houses revisited - ArchitectureAu
WEBOct 15, 2021 · Robin Boyd houses revisited. Featherston House (1967–69) by Robin Boyd. The year 2021 marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Robin Boyd, who, as the Robin Boyd Foundation states, is “arguably the most influential architect there has ever been in Australia.”. Born on 3 January 1919, Boyd, in his short life, made an indelible mark on ...
Miracle box: Phoenix Central Park | ArchitectureAu
WEBOct 20, 2020 · Phoenix is a Corbusian boîte à miracles – a miracle box – an architectural vessel capable of holding everything you could desire. 2 The facade’s restraint is a foil to the miscellany within – a gallery designed by JWA and a performance space designed by DBJ. Breaching the facade is like slipping through the looking glass.
Revisited: Simpson-Lee House - ArchitectureAu
WEBNov 10, 2014 · Designed between 1988 and 1993, this house in Mount Wilson was commissioned by Geelum and Sheila Simpson-Lee, a retired dean of economics and a potter, who asked for a “secular monastic” house and studio with a “minimal tough simplicity.” 1 They required an extremely light building. This was sometimes in the sense of a visual and physical lightness; at other times, it was ...