Writing Archives

As if the bollard-ization of Melbourne’s public spaces in 2017 weren’t enough, we’re ending the year with a bang – the announcement that Federation Square’s Yarra building is […]

There is a good reason why the word “architect” is frequently used in other fields. An architect has the capacity to recognize a complex problem, visualize an outcome and […]

McBride Charles Ryan: Metaphors of Knowledge What can architecture offer to education, beyond simply providing functional spaces that address different pedagogical requirements? The great body of educational architecture […]

A Question of Culture: Guest editorial of Issue 143 of AR Magazine by Christine Phillips, Stuart Harrison & Simon Knott “Culture is a big idea and there is […]

Ignited Imagination McBride Charles Ryan’s design for the new Penleigh and Essendon Junior Boys School is an outstanding result of the Federal Government’s Building the Education Revolution (BER) […]

Some thoughts on notablity… “Acknowledging women’s broader roles within the profession shifts architecture’s emphasis on individual notability to an understanding that to create truly notable works it takes […]

Sense & Sensibility: Ballarat Regional Integrated Cancer Centre For so many of us, an experience with cancer – either through our own diagnosis, or that of a loved […]

“There is no other public space in Melbourne that works like Federation Square or engages the broader population in the way that Federation Square does. Federation Square takes […]

“One of the most important roles of the public competition is to provide an interface between the architectural profession and a broader public. The reality is that for […]

“The Australia Council’s procurement methodology stems from the perceived need to control the outcome and avoid risk. In a risk-averse culture it is not surprising that clients seek […]

Our opinion piece “The Australian Pavilion in Venice: art over architecture, or privilege over opportunity?” on the Australian Design Review was a top story in 2011. “Tania Davidge […]

“On 1 June 2011, at the 54th Venice Art Biennale, the Australia Council for the Arts announced plans for a new Australian pavilion in the Venice Giardini to […]

Writing

How’d you like them Apples?

Left of Field

McBride Charles Ryan: Metaphors of Knowledge

A Question of Culture

Ignited Imagination

Parlour: How to be ‘notable’

Sense & Sensibility: Ballarat Regional Integrated Cancer Centre

Sold down the river: Federation Square East

A competitive culture

Venice pavilion: done, but not dusted

ADR’s Top 10 Features for 2011

The Australian Pavilion in Venice: art over architecture, or privilege over opportunity?