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Sydney's tallest building turns 40 - ArchitectureAu
Sep 28, 2021 · Sydney’s tallest building, the 304-metre tall Centrepoint Tower, celebrates its 40 th anniversary in 2021. The building was designed by Donald Crone and Associates (now Crone Architects) in 1968 and was opened to the public after 13 years of construction in 1981. It can be seen from as far as the Blue Mountains and the Central Coast.
One Central Park - ArchitectureAu
Aug 4, 2014 · The high-profile One Central Park project features a thirty-three-metre cantilevered sky garden and mirror installation. Artwork: Halo by Jennifer Turpin and Michaelie Crawford. Image: Simon Wood. In 1988, American hip-hop group Public Enemy released its seminal song “Don’t Believe the Hype.”. Well-known for its politically charged lyrics ...
Revisited: Marie Short House (1974) by Glenn Murcutt
Jan 9, 2023 · Built in 1974, just four years after Glenn Murcutt began practising architecture, this farmhouse in Kempsey in northern New South Wales is a seminal work, much admired both in Australia and abroad. Modest, flexible and adaptable to climate, it endures as a model for responsive, responsible design. The house comprises two pavilions, one for ...
Sydney Opera House: an ‘unrepeatable’ masterpiece
Nov 22, 2023 · The Sydney Opera House started with what CEO Louise Heron described as a “big bang of creativity” and over the past 50 years (and more), its story has been wrapped in wonder, myth, drama, and perhaps most importantly, the building of a nation.. On the 69th anniversary of the announcement of an international competition to design a national opera house, SOH assembled a legion of architects ...
Construction starts on Melbourne’s Suburban Rail Loop
Mar 3, 2024 · Construction has now commenced on Melbourne’s Suburban Rail Loop East, in a project that will see Box Hill and Cheltenham connected via a new rail line and six underground stations.. The train stations include Box Hill, Burwood, Glen Waverley, Monash, Clayton and Cheltenham. Of the six stations, Box Hill, Glen Waverley, Clayton, and Cheltenham already have existing train stations, and upon ...
Australian Architecture: A History | ArchitectureAu
Apr 19, 2022 · Jackson’s 2000 book Australian Architecture Now, co-authored with Chris Johnson, was a sequel, of sorts, to Jennifer Taylor’s Australian Architecture Since 1960. Taylor herself was picking up from J. M. Freeland’s definitive Australian Architecture: A History (published 1968). And so we come full circle, with Jackson resetting the updates ...
Is architecture art? | ArchitectureAu
Jul 25, 2016 · The rapidly accelerating pavilion phenomenon epitomizes a larger trend of interdisciplinary crossover between architecture and the visual arts, in which the exhibition of architecture as art in visual arts venues is mirrored by the popularity of visual artists using architectural means, from actual buildings to physical and digital modelling and including explicit reference to architecture as ...
A storied site: Marrickville Library | ArchitectureAu
Jul 1, 2021 · The library site was once part of the estate of Joseph Graham, who was elected Mayor of Marrickville for the first time in 1868 and re-elected a record eight times. When he died in 1894, his estate was divided, creating space for the Marrickville Town Hall and, in 1897, for the Marrickville Cottage Hospital to “be the means of alleviating the ...
Invisible House - ArchitectureAu
Feb 21, 2014 · Nestled into a ridgeline overlooking the New South Wales Megalong Valley, a house by Peter Stutchbury Architecture embraces its epic bush pastoral setting. The roof acts as a dam, creating a moat around the upper floor. Any description of this house must, by necessity, start with a description of the majestic, unique nature of the country in ...