The Stirling Prize winner 2012
After a highly anticipated wait, the Stirling Prize, one of the UK’s biggest architecture prizes, was announced in Manchester last Saturday. From the judges’ perspective, the project that has made the “greatest contribution to the evolution of architecture in the past year” was the Sainsbury Laboratory – an 82 million pound science facility by Stanton...
Jury arrives on finalists for Flinders Street Station Design Competition
Earlier in the year the Victorian government announced the $1 million Flinders Street Station International Design Competition. The Flinders Street Station precinct is a heritage icon as well as Melbourne’s busiest railway station. All entries were submitted anonymously to the competition jury in a bid to maintain the highest level of fairness and equity. Out...
Student Accommodation High Achiever
The Monash Student Housing Complex has just received the first Australian multi-residential Green Star Rating for sustainable construction. The construction has performed top in its class, also receiving a Royal Institute of British Architects International Award and The Victorian Architecture Award for Multiple Housing earlier in the year. Designed by BVN Architecture, the Monash University...
Floriade – More than a walk in the park
For 25 years Floriade has evoked tulips, perfume, sunshine and spring. However, Floriade is no longer just a family friendly flower festival; it also features an exciting program for the pros. This year from Saturday the 15th September to Sunday 14th of October, Canberra celebrates the season of Spring through Floriade. The free event is...
Biodiversity Represented on the Olympic Field
In this year’s London Olympic Games, one of the most beautiful illustrations of international solidarity is found on the field of the Olympic Park Gardens Historically & horticulturally, London has a rich history of parks, namely large and extravagant Victorian-era gardens filled with statues, fountains and topiary. While they can be stunning, they are also...
Delicious Designs
Russel Koskela and Sasha Titchosky have always created beautiful, functional and durable furniture, and now it is delicious too. While the company Koskela is often associated with large scale commercial projects, their Rosebery warehouse is a design brik-a-brak store with everything from outdoor benches, timber brush-ware to four poster beds and handmade children’s toys. A...
Architecture award for Sydney’s Chinatown
A previously unused pagoda in the heart of Sydney’s Chinatown has been awarded a prestigious architecture award. The City of Sydney’s stunning Chinatown information kiosk, which glows bright red at night and serves hundreds of residents, workers and visitors each day, was the recipient of an award in the Small Project Architecture category at this...
Robina Hospital a winner
The Australian Institute of Architects’ 2012 Queensland State Architecture Awards were announced on June 22 and a Public Architecture Award was given to the Robina Hospital Expansion designed by BVN. According to the jury this major redevelopment for the Gold Coast Health Services District, ‘strikes an appropriate balance between operational efficiency and healthcare environment for...
Parramatta Quay wins Australia Award for Urban Design
The Prime Ministers Australia Awards for urban design were announced on June 26 at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra, with urban design and landscape architecture practice, McGregor Coxall, announced as a winner. The company received the Australia Award for Urban Design 2012 – Policies, Programs and Concepts – Small Scale’ category for its highly...
Brought back to life
It’s not every day you see a waste land/industrial site brought back to life but that’s exactly what Landscape Solutions did to what is today known as Ballast Point Park in Balmain, Sydney. Completed in 2009, Ballast Point Park has been re-born into a usable public park while utilising recyclable materials. Exhibiting nothing short of innovative...
Top tips for a successful landscape design
Its one thing to dream up the perfect landscape design, but as many of you would know, it’s a whole different ball game when it comes to turning that dream into reality. Here are some tips for turning an ordinary landscape into an extraordinary design. Tip One: Planning, planning and planning! It can’t be stressed...
