Dulux has announced the finalists for its 37th annual Colour Awards, recognizing the innovative use of colour in the built environment. “This year’s finalists demonstrate the capacity for colour to be a fundamental and versatile design tool,” said Dulux colour and communications manager Andrea Lucena-Orr. Comprising 113 entries from across Australian and New Zealand, the […] More
A new mutual recognition agreement (MRA) between Australia, the United Kingdom (UK) and New Zealand will begin on 25 May 2023, making it easier for architects to register across the three countries. The agreement has been signed by the Architects Accreditation Council of Australia (AACA), the UK Architects Registration Board, and the New Zealand Registered […] More
The Naomi Milgrom Foundation has selected 1995 Pritzker Prize Laureate Tadao Ando to design the tenth MPavilion, which will be installed in Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Gardens. “I have long admired how Tadao Ando responds to and incorporates the particularity of a place into his design, and his belief that architecture can shape a society,” said […] More
An additional $97.6 million has been committed to Perth Concert Hall redevelopments, the WA government announced. The funds nearly triple the total funding for the project, which is now valued at $150 million. WA premier Mark McGowan said issues around structural maintenance had emerged during the project’s design phase and added that now-funded works would […] More
Lyons and EJE Architecture have designed a new campus in Gosford for the University of Newcastle.
The $58 million building to be built on the site of a former Mitre 10 store will be made using mass timber and will be the first of its kind in the Central Coast city.
The project will establish a new health, innovation and education campus and will be a “stepping stone” development in the Gosford Urban Design Framework.
“The Central Coast Campus aims to provide teaching connected with [the Health Innovation cluster], as well as outreach programs to connect Gosford to other innovative and unique academic programs provided by the University,” reads a design statement for the project.
The building will incorporate teaching and learning spaces, a large community engagement space, an innovation hub, meeting and event spaces, and accessible outdoor spaces designed by McGregor Coxall.
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The University of Newcastle’s proposed Gosford campus designed by Lyons and EJE Architecture. Image:
Lyons and EJE Architecture
Conceived as “a sandstone block”, the building’s mass will be “eroded” away at the corner of Beane and Mann Streets to create a sheltered gathering space. The concept connects to local Indigenous stories about “the importance of the saltwater edge, oyster collecting, food gathering and general social places that formed along the waterways and inlets of the entire region.”
The building will be made using materials that reference Gosford’s natural ecology and industrial history. The design targets a 6-star Green Star rating.
The project is funded through three-way partnership between the state and federal governments and the University of Newcastle.
“We know that young people on the Central Coast want more opportunities to study at university without leaving the region. Our new campus will mean that they will be able to study, live and then work here on the Central Coast – providing a major boost to this region’s revitalization,” said University of Newcastle vice-chancellor Alex Zelinsky when the funding partnership was announced in June 2022.
“We expect to build to more than 900 students studying at the Gosford campus within its first decade of operation, with identified courses in allied health, bioscience, digital transformation, law, business and innovation.”
Designs have been submitted to the NSW planning department for assessment. The campus is expected to be complete in 2025. More
Melbourne School of Design student James Urlini has won the Robin Boyd Foundation’s residential design competition. Open to students from around Australia, the Walls Around Us competition challenged entrants to reimagine the site of Robin Boyd’s Walsh Street House by exploring Boyd’s ideas and interests through a contemporary lens. “Robin Boyd’s book ‘The Walls Around […] More
Grimshaw has completed a 27-storey commercial office tower in Sydney Circular. Located at 210 George Street, the tower is a new addition to the Alfred, Pitt, Daley and George Streets (APDG) precinct. Designed with a “sculptural form”, the tower, dubbed Poly Centre, is composed of three parts: an eastern core, a west-facing central tower, and […] More
The 2023 Pritzker Prize has been awarded to English architect David Chipperfield “for the rigour, integrity and pertinence of a body of work that – beyond the realm of the architecture discipline – speaks for his social and environmental commitment,” said the jury.
Chipperfield, whose work spans four decades and three continents, is celebrated for revering history and culture while honouring pre-existing built and natural environments.
Jury chair Alejandro Aravena said, “In a world where many architects view a commission as an opportunity to add to their own portfolio, he responds to each project with specific tools that he has selected with preciseness and great care. Sometimes it requires a gesture that is strong and monumental, while other times, it requires him to almost disappear. But his buildings will always stand the test of time because the ultimate goal of his operation is to serve the greater good. The avoidance of what’s fashionable has allowed him to remain permanent.”
Chipperfield’s work ranges from civic, cultural and academic buildings to residences and urban planning. He has had a particular focus on museums, with significant works including the Neues Museum and James-Simon-Galerie in Berlin, Turner Contemporary and Hepworth Wakefield in the UK, as well as the Inagawa Cemetery Chapel and Visitor Centre in Japan.
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Inagawa Cemetery Chapel and Visitor Centre by David Chipperfield. Image:
Courtesy of Keiko Sasaoka.
“At once architectural and museological projects, in Chipperfield’s hands museums as institutions and buildings offer a transformation of the urban life of the cities where they are located. Generous outdoor spaces make them not fortresses but connectors, places for gathering and observing, such that the building itself is a gift to the city, a common ground even for those who never enter the galleries,” the jury citation reads.
“In short, his buildings embody a commanding balance of the seemingly contradictory notions of being complete in and of themselves as architectural designs where every detail is conceived as a carefully studied part of a whole, and at the same time create interconnections to the city and to the society in such a way as to fundamentally transform a whole district.
“The career of David Chipperfield is marked by a long term, rigour and consistency in a body of work that has seamlessly integrated and balanced both terms of that equation.
“Always characterized by elegance, restraint, a sense of permanence, as well as clear compositions and refined detailing, his buildings each time exude clarity, surprise, sophisticated contextuality and confident presence.”
Tom Pritzker, chairman of award sponsor the Hyatt Foundation, said that Chipperfield “is assured without hubris, consistently avoiding trendiness to confront and sustain the connections between tradition and innovation, serving history and humanity. While his works are elegantly masterful, he measures the achievements of his designs by social and environmental welfare to enhance the quality of life for all of civilization.” More
