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Gray Puksand has designed a secondary college for the Victorian city of Shepparton that will aim to combine the facilities of a large school with the feel of a smaller school environment. The Greater Shepparton Secondary College will replace the city’s four existing public secondary schools and will be built on the current Shepparton High […] More
Australian-born architectural historian and writer Emma Letizia Jones has been announced as one of six winners of the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s 2020 Richard Rogers Fellowship. Jones attended both the University of Sydney and the Architectural Association in London before obtaining a PhD at the University of Zurich with a thesis on the drawing […] More
A new initiative has seen a number of Australian architecture practices commit to becoming carbon neutral businesses by the end of 2020. The movement has grown out of Architects Declare Australia, a initiative which facilitated 700 signatories to a declaration of a climate and biodiversity emergency. In December 2019, a group of Melbourne signatories met […] More
A development application for a new civic centre in the Sydney suburb of Ryde, dubbed “The New Heart of Ryde,” has been referred to the Sydney North Planning Panel. Designed by Plus Architecture, the centre will deliver a “four-fold increase” in community facilities and include a multi-purpose community and cultural building which will contain a […] More
A new and beautifully illustrated book on Henbury Hall by the architectural historian Jeremy Musson, full of wonderful photography, drawings, letters and portraits, raises the old question of the ‘problem’ building, the one that most writers and critics find hard to discuss. For Henbury, near Macclesfield in Cheshire, is the 1980s progeny of Andrea Palladio’s […] More
There is a great urban legend about Tower Bridge. It goes that in 1967 the American entrepreneur Robert P. McCulloch purchased the stone facings of the demolished ‘New’ London Bridge in the belief that he was buying those of its neighbour less than a mile downstream. It’s very easy to see why – the neoclassical […] More
In 2017 Asmara, the capital of Eritrea, was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site, a move that can be seen as the beginning of more hopeful times for the country. The following year Eritrea and Ethiopia, its much larger neighbour (from whom it had gained independence in 1993) signed a declaration ending a state of […] More
Kearsney Court is a late Victorian house just outside Dover in east Kent. Designed in 1899 by Worsfold and Hayward for brewer Alfred Leney, it is a perfectly respectable essay in the Arts and Crafts manner – rough-cast walls, picturesque massing, and large bay windows. Its garden, though, is something else altogether. It cascades down […] More
