Canberra Lab has been busy since the last issue. We have had some awesome opportunities to collaborate with local artists and festivals including You Are Here, the Canberra International Music Festival (CIMF) and NewActon’s Art not Apart. Thank you to those who we have been, or who we are working with, on these inspiring festivals… [Read more…]
April 30, 2012
Elizabeth Farrelly’s recent talk ‘Sex in the city’ at the Albert Hall, offered up a very interesting means of conceptualising the city. A brief synopsis of the lecture would be that cities are composed of elements that could be categorized as either masculine, (buildings, towers, objects in general) or feminine (the realm of the street,… [Read more…]
April 30, 2012
An inquiry into the depiction and perception of space. Perceptions of Canberra – not a plan view The strong geometry and leading lines of the city have inspired this body of work. I have been concerned not with the literal representation of built architecture as such, but with the way light and shadow reveal and… [Read more…]
April 30, 2012
Sweet Streets : Critique your Street Sarah Herbert takes us on a virtual tour as she critiques our streets with the help of google street view. In Canberra, and indeed Australia, we’ve developed an expectation that our streets will appear a certain way, and provide certain facilities. In the ACT we have excellent wide roads,… [Read more…]
April 30, 2012
Last issue a collaboration between Canberra Lab and artist Kathryn Scott brought Walter Burley Griffin back to Canberra through a love story with his Dear Marion. Over the last two months this collaboration has seen Walter turn up at local art festivals and throughout the city, reflecting on contemporary Canberra as he writes to his… [Read more…]
April 30, 2012
‘Typecasting St Bernards’ Stephen Frith The commission to make additions to the former church of St Bernards’ at Reidsdale, near Braidwood, NSW, offered an opportunity to explore notions of type in architecture. The church sits in the middle of a paddock in a rural setting. The architectural challenge for the new design becomes in large… [Read more…]
April 30, 2012
Manuka Pool Kiosk by Phillip Leeson Architects Phillip Leeson Architects were commissioned to design a kiosk for Manuka Pool, to be built adjacent to the entry. The response to this commission was based on a long pergola structure that housed a kiosk in the centre portion with serveries at each end, one to serve pool… [Read more…]
April 30, 2012
In 2009 students of the University of Canberra hosted RE:HAB – the 2009 Australia and New Zealand Student Architecture Congress. During the congress Glenn Murcutt joined Annabelle Pegrum on stage for a revealing and lively conversation, in the packed Boiler House lecture theatre. This half hour video launches straight into the depths of their conversation,… [Read more…]
April 30, 2012
GENERATIVE DESIGN contemporary performing arts complex Master of Digital Design and Master of Architecture Design Studio 2010, University of Canberra hyperbolic coral : Patrick Stein The story of the Hyperbolic Coral starts with a computational nature study for the unit Generative Design in collaboration with Kerrin Jefferis. Inspired by the Institute for Figuring’s crotchet coral… [Read more…]
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