Perth City Council has approved a $160-million proposal to revamp a strip of Barrack Street in a scheme designed by Hames Sharley. The Perth Local Development Assessment Panel (LDAP) voted to approve plans to redevelop six lots covering 3,350 square metres along Barrack Street, between the Murray and Hay street malls. LDAP spokesperson Diana Goldswain […] More
A 28-storey tower designed for the Adelaide’s biomedical precinct will rise from one of the city’s oldest churches.
Designed by GHD Woodhead, the proposed $450-million development would be named “Trinity City” with a gross floor area of 65,000 square metres, set to host more than 3,000 workers once completed.
The first four levels will be dedicated to 173 car parks while levels five to 26 will be office space. A mezzanine level will feature a gym, a 70-place childcare centre and a 200-seat auditorium.
Trinity City has been designed as one of the first post-pandemic buildings for Adelaide’s CBD, prioritising the health and wellbeing of the end user. The building will feature intelligent design advancements such as touch-free entry points, and fresh air access through louvres down the building’s central spine.
The tower will be built at the rear of Trinity Church Adelaide, and the project will also include restorations to the church building along with two other local heritage buildings. The church, built in 1838, is heritage protected as the earliest surviving Anglican building in South Australia.
Trinity Church has expressed its support for the development, stating it will rejuvenate the old site and ensure its future longevity.
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Entrance via the heritage piazza with access to the landscaped grounds. Image:
GHD Woodhead
The project will form a key part of Adelaide’s $3.8 billion biomedical city precinct – the largest life sciences precinct in the Southern Hemisphere – as the first commercial building on North Terrace.
It joins institutions such as the Royal Adelaide Hospital, the Women’s and Children’s Hospital, the University of Adelaide Health and Medical Sciences building, the University of South Australia’s Health Innovation Building.
Trade and investment Nick Champion said the developer had undertaken “extensive consultation” with Heritage SA and local authorities.
“Trinity City will be the perfect addition to Adelaide BioMed City, as South Australia emerges as a global leader in data driven precision medicine,” said Champion.
Construction is slated to begin in 2023 with completion forecast for the end of 2025. More
The Good Design Awards were announced on 16 September at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, celebrating the best of local and international design and innovation.
A team of local and international judges selected projects showcasing the best in architectural design among 10 other disciplines.
The Fulcrum Agency was among the top winners on the night receiving the Michael Bryce Patron Award for its work on the Groote Archipelago Housing Program. The award recognizes a design product, service or project that has the potential to transform future social, environmental, cultural and economic aspects of the planet.
“This was an inspiring example of human centred-design in practice,” Brandon Gian, Good Design CEO and chair of the awards said of the project. “The evidence of the engagement of people from the community, and the persistence of the team should be an example for future projects of this type. The design-led approach led to a deep understanding of the complexities of creating culturally sensitive housing in remote Australia, and as a result, an extraordinary outcome of which both the team and the community can be proud.” The project also received Best in Class in the Social Impact category.
Elsewhere in the awards, five projects received Best in Class in the architectural design categories, with a further 12 projects receiving gold, 35 others recognized for good design.
The jury said the architectural category of the awards showcased a diversity of talent, with projects ranging from heritage, commercial, to public installations.
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Brookfield Place Sydney by Make Architects.
Brookfield Place Sydney by Make Architects was one project awarded Best in Class for its highly complex response to a mixed-use project. The judges said this undertaking of a complex project, unifying four separate site in Sydney, was a “world-class” mixed-use tower project harnessing heritage and sustainability elements.
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Coopworth by FMD Architects. Image:
Adam Gibson
Located in the rural landscape of Bruny Island, Tasmania, Coopworth by FMD Architects also received Best in Class for its contemporary interpretation of a country farmhouse. The jury commended the architects on their playful experiment in form and inventive approach to materials that “tactfully converses” with the ever-changing landscape.
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ANZ Breathe. Image:
Tom Ross
Breathe’s carbon-neutral bank branches designed for ANZ earned it Best in Class for its ingenious use of modular parts that come together to form a new benchmark for corporate Australia, that considers its impact on the community and the planet.
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Grampians Peak Trail by Noxon Giffen with McGregor Coxall. Image:
Shannon McGrath
McGregor Coxall with Noxon Giffen and OPS Engineers was awarded the accolade for its landscape-led collaboration on Grampians Peak Trail. The jury said the design team’s doctrine for conservation, protection and celebration of the Victorial wilderness helped it achieve the highest possible grade of environmental sensitivity.
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Made and Mycelium for Seed and Sprout in collaboration with Swinburne University. Image:
Seed and Sprout
The fifth and final project to receive Best in Class in the architectural design categories is Made and Mycelium – a popup store designed for eco brand Seed and Sprout through a collaboration with Swinburne University of Technology. The design reflects the company’s sustainable ethos and places an emphasis on product life cycles and the philosophy of upcycling.
The 12 projects to receive gold in the Good Design awards are as follows:
Grampians Peak Trail – Noxon Giffen with McGregor Coxall
Ferrars and York – Hip V. Hype, Six Degrees Architects, SBLA Studio
Fish River Ranger Accommodation – University of South Australia, Design Construct
Australian Pavilion Expo 2020 Dubai – Bureau Proberts
Parramatta Escarpment Boardwalk – Hill Thalis Architecture and Urban Projects
Hughes Street Car Park – Collins and Turner Architects
Imatra Electricity Substation – Virkkunen & Co Architects
Terrace House – Austin Maynard Architects
Goyder Square – Hatch Roberts Day, Turf Design Studio
Sub Base Platypus – Iahznimmo Architects, Aspect Studios
Cheltenham Early Education Centre – Alexandra Kidd Design
The Princess Theatre – JDA Co.
For the full list of winners visit the Good Design Awards website. More
BVN has designed a new $300-million home for the Australian Taxation Office in Canberra, which is set to unite all of its employees under one roof. The proposed six-storey building will accommodate more than 33,000 square metres of floorspace organized around a central atrium and circulation stair. ATO staff currently work across two sites at […] More
The NSW government has reached an agreement with property group Mirvac to redevelop the Habourside Shopping Centre in Sydney’s Darling Harbour into a retail, residential, commercial and entertainment precinct. The project is expected to create a hectare of public open space, including a new 3,500-square-metre park and a wider waterfront promenade. Snøhetta and Hassell won […] More
Legislation proposing changes to the Architects Registration Board of Victoria (ARBV), which would have reduced the number of registered architects on the board, has been shelved.
The Victorian government has decided not to present the Building and Heritage Amendment Act 2022 to the upper house, the Legislative Council, in the last parliamentary sitting week before the state election, meaning, the bill will expire and status quo will remain for now.
The Australian Institute of Architects said the lapsed legislation was “great news” and reflected a huge effort to oppose the bill.
The Victorian chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects and the Association of Consulting Architects previously voiced its concerns about the bill in July, stating that a board with only three architecturally qualified members out of nine – none of whom would be required to be registered architects – was an irresponsible step for the ARBV.
Currently, the ARBV has 10 members, five of whom must be registered architects, while the remainder are representatives from consumer and construction sectors.
“These proposed changes would have damaged the integrity of the Architects Act, defied best regulatory practice and indeed common sense, and prevented the board from providing sound consumer protection to Victorians while deleteriously impacting the profession of architecture in Victoria,” wrote the Institute’s Victorian chapter president David Wagner.
“I would like to thank all members who wrote to their local parliamentary representatives, their MLAs, MLCs whether cross benchers, opposition members or government members and also to those who also campaigned for media attention on the issue.”
The campaign to oppose the legislation was lobbied in partnership with the Association of Consulting Architects (ACA) holding meetings with the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning and parliamentarians including Rod Barton and David Davis.
“The ARBV provisions [in the bill] would have seriously weakened our professional standards and diminished the profession’s capacity to contribute to our cities and communities. That the Architects Act will now continue in its current form is the best outcome for both Victorians and the architectural profession of this state,” Wagner said.
A state election will take place on 26 November, and should the new government decide to pursue the proposed reforms in the new parliament, it will need to introduce a new bill to the lower house. More
Three architecture practices – SJB, Durbach Block Jaggers (DBJ) and Curious Practice – have won the design competition for stages three and four of a mixed-use development for Newcastle’s East End.
The jury unanimously selected the winning design for its retention of Christ Church Cathedral as the city’s prominent landmark structure, as well as the inclusion of multiple public viewing corridors to the harbour, the integration of green space, and the distinct character allocated to each building.
SJB worked as executive architect on stage one of the four-stage project in the form of a masterplan back in 2013, working in collaboration with Durbach Block Jaggers and Tonkin Zulaikha Greer. SJB director Adam Haddow said the team was “over the moon” to collaborate with their peers to deliver the final stages of the project, which will include 235 dwellings across five buildings, as well as new retail space and public parking.
Newcastle East End is a combination of adaptive reuse and new builds that form the unique character of the city. The site has been divided based on “experience, expertise and scale”, SJB said, while forming a joint urban design strategy to realise the City of Newcastle’s “Harbour to Cathedral Park” plan to open up connections and view lines from the harbour foreshore and Hunter Street Mall to Cathedral Park.
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Designs for Newcastle East End redevelopment stages three and four. Image:
SJB, Durbach Block Jaggers and Curious Practice
“Our vision for the East End is rooted in a fine grain response that reimagines the retail offering and pedestrian activity of Hunter Street,” said Haddow. “The new public ‘market square’ has great potential to connect into council land, creating the link with Newcastle Christ Church Cathedral and the harbour, to become the centre of the East End.”
The winning design draws inspiration from existing Newcastle architecture as well as retains key heritage buildings, while bringing new life to the neglected centre. Three buildings will establish the marketplace precinct: the “block” of the heritage Municipal building, the “tower” behind, and the “stoa” forming the western edge.
The city’s lord mayor Nuatali Nelmes said that Newcastle’s East End is transforming “before our eyes”, with architectural design excellence bringing “the history and heritage of this harbour precinct into the modern era”.
Building envelopes identified in stage one are shaped to provide a sympathetic context for existingbuildings, while plans to “hollow out” the central public heart will let in sunlight through a new laneway through the site.
SJB said that following “extensive research” into the built fabric of Newcastle, the team has designed buildings that retain the historical fabric while referencing the “nuance” of the surrounding city.
The redevelopment is anticipated to cost $880 million. More
Sydney Modern architect SANAA has been named the recipient of 2022 Praemium Imperiale award for architecture by the Japan Art Association.
Inaugurated in 1988, the Praemium Imperiale art prize is today one of the world’s largest and most prestigious art prizez.
The award honours “individuals or groups from around the world for outstanding contributions to the development, promotion, and progress of the arts”, the committee said. Laureates are awarded in five fields – painting, sculpture, architecture, music, and film – and each received a prize of 15 million Japanese Yen (A$156,000).
Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of Japanese architecture practice SANAA were awarded the prize for architecture in recognition of their contribution to the profession. Past architecture laureates including Zaha Hadid, Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers and Norman Foster. In 2021, Australian Glenn Murcutt was named the architecture laureate.
“There are five senior Japanese architects who have received the Praemium Imperiale, including Kenzo Tange, Tadao Ando, Fumihiko Maki, YoshioTaniguchi and Toyo Ito, and we are truly honored to join them,” said Sejima and Nishizawa.
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Sydney Modern render by SANAA, set to open December 2022.
The duo founded their Tokyo-based studio in 1995. They have built a body of work that includes the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, the New Museum of Contemporary Art in the USA, the Louvre-Lens Museum in France, and the Bocconi University New Urban Campus in Italy.
SANAA also designed the extension of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Modern which has completed major construction is due to open on 3 December.
The practice also received the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2010 and the Architectural Institute of Japan Award in 2006.
Other laureates of the 2022 Praemium Imperiale include Ai Weiwei for sculpture, Giulio Paolini for painting, Krystian Zimerman for music and Wim Wenders for theatre/film.
In 2022, the Japan Art Association appointed former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as International Advisor to the Praemium Imperiale. More
