Innholdsfortegnelse for October - November 2016 i Architectural Review Asia Pacific

You may not know, but Erdington is about 3.8 miles from Jerrard Drive in Sutton Coldfield. You may also not know (or care, I should warrant) that Erdington and Sutton Coldfield are both towns in the UK’s West Midlands (well, they were both part of Warwickshire until that heinous redrawing of the county boundaries in 1974, but that’s a whole different story). Why am I telling you this? Well, Ken Shuttleworth, this issue’s cover star and the subject of our lead story, was born and bred in Erdington, while I spent a goodly portion of my childhood in Jerrard Drive, Sutton Coldfield. Goodness. Practically twins. Perhaps that’s why I liked talking to him so very much. And why he seemed to just say one terribly sensible thing after another. Shared…

“WHEN YOU STAY AT A FIVE-STAR HOTEL YOU DON’T SLEEP ON BRAND NEW SHEETS. WELL, WE CAN LAUNDER BUILDING MATERIALS AS WELL.”/ DAN PHILLIPS, PAGE 54   “WHAT WE DO HERE IS TRY AND TAKE AWAY A LOT OF THE BUSINESS SIDE FROM THE ARCHITECTS. BECAUSE THEY’RE NOT VERY GOOD AT IT TO BE ABSOLUTELY HONEST.”/ KEN SHUTTLEWORTH, PAGE 16   “ARCHITECTURE IS A STRANGE PROFESSION. WE SPEND OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY TO CREATE OUR OWN ARTISTIC VISIONS.”/ GLEN CHAMBERLAIN, PAGE 28   “A GOOD PROJECT MANAGER IS A HELP TO THE DESIGN PROCESS AND THEY ARE WORTH THEIR WEIGHT IN JELLYBEANS.”/ ROHAN WILSON, PAGE 62 “DIGITAL FABRICATION NOT ONLY OFFERS GREAT NEW TECHNICAL POSSIBILITIES, IT MAY ALSO BRING THE DESIGNER CLOSER TO THE ACTUAL PROCESS OF MAKING AGAIN.”/ ALAN…

“MY DAD HAD HIS OWN BUSINESS, BUT THAT WAS LARGELY THE EXTENT OF EXPOSURE I HAD UP UNTIL BWA COMMENCED.” After studying architecture and landscape architecture at the University of Canberra, Ben Walker set his sights on making an impact on urban planning and the built environment in Australia’s capital. Beginning his career through urban design roles in both Canberra and Melbourne, Walker began an architectural apprenticeship at Townsend + Associates Architects (T+AA) in 2006. “T+AA was an incredible place to begin my career – the focus on detailing espoused in the office is second to none and I learned a significant amount about construction detailing there,” Walker says. “I was fortunate enough to work on a range of projects in type and scale.” Walker worked with T+AA until 2012,…

A bold and award-winning product innovation is one of the standout elements of the newly redeveloped Pacific Fair Shopping Centre on the Gold Coast. The striking feature runs the entire length of the shopping centre’s 6500-space car park and is believed to be the biggest kinetic mesh façade in the southern hemisphere. It’s made from Kaynemaile architectural mesh and comprises 10 million 28-millimetre polycarbonate rings, each strong enough to hold a person’s weight. There are actually two products making up the façade – the kinetic custom-engineered three-dimensional mesh and the Kaynemaile-Armour architectural mesh panels. But it’s the mesh’s genesis that really captures the imagination. Kayne Horsham, the founder of the company, was previously an artistic director for the world famous Weta Workshop, based in Wellington, New Zealand. Creating ground-breaking special…

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The changes will affect all Victorian builders and owner-builders, with the VBA now acting as the single registering and disciplinary body. The reforms introduced include: › abolition of the Building Practitioners Board, with the VBA to register and discipline building practitioners and issue owner-builder certificates of consent › banning builders from appointing private building surveyors for domestic building work – building surveyors will be appointed by the consumer › building practitioners must reapply for registration every five years › moving to a ‘show cause’ disciplinary process with the onus on building practitioners to show why they should not be disciplined › the VBA to approve codes of conduct for building practitioners › tightening requirements around becoming an owner-builder, and › giving home buyers access to information on owner-built homes through…

“WHAT WE TRY AND DO HERE IS TRY AND TAKE AWAY A LOT OF THE BUSINESS SIDE FROM THE ARCHITECTS. BECAUSE THEY’RE NOT VERY GOOD AT IT TO BE ABSOLUTELY HONEST.” It was one of those watershed moments for Shuttleworth, who hails from Erdington in the UK’s West Midlands and studied at De Montfort University. As one of the partners in the title of Sir Norman Foster’s eponymous practice, he was feted for his outstanding work on such globally renowned projects as 30 St Mary Axe (aka The Gherkin) and HSBC’s headquarters in Hong Kong, but sensed it was time for a change. “I was 50 and I felt it was now or never,” he says. “I could stay – and probably stay there forever – or, if I was…

My working definition of content marketing/branded content is anything that, with the brand removed entirely, still retains value to the audience. ‘Value’ is another moveable concept, but in content marketing it’s found at the overlap of what’s important to both the brand and the audience. It plays out as either utility or entertainment. Education, inspiration, tools, apps, events, insight, foresight, videos, collaborations, instructional manuals, books, blogs… all fall under those two things and can all be part of a content marketing plan. For example, one project I’ve worked on, for Bank of Melbourne, focused on the success of Victorian businesses. It’s something that’s important to the businesses, and it’s important to Bank of Melbourne because their success enables the Bank’s success, so it celebrates that success in its content platform…

Dan Phillips freely describes the houses he designs and builds as whimsical. There’s the sign house where one wall of the building is panelled using repurposed highway signs, the cork house, which leans heavily on the reuse of discarded corks and the Budweiser House – well, not literally designed to look like a beer can, but evoking the brand’s iconic colour scheme and putting such materials as bottle caps and an old beer tap to use in the bathroom. Where the community sees junk, Phillips sees opportunity. From his home in Texas, Phillips and his wife Marsha founded the Phoenix Commotion – a venture created so he could build homes from recycled, salvaged and repurposed materials. Since 1997, this self-taught designer and builder has concentrated on constructing houses aimed at…

/ ROHAN WILSON, DIRECTOR, DESIGNINC The good, the bad and the ineffectual. The good A good project manager is a person that enables the design team. They act as a filter and conduit of information between the client and design team. They (from a background either of experience or expertise) analyse information and make a judgement of which information is important to the project and which is noise. They have a dual role as working as an extension to the client and simultaneously working with the design team. Like a catalyst in a chemical reaction speeds up the process, a good project manager can speed up design and documentation through effective and efficient communication. The bad A bad project manager tries to be things they are not. They are no…

The wholly owned subsidiary of the Australian Institute of Architects (AIA) ceased trading in early September, following the recommendations of its board. In a media release, national president Professor Ken Maher explained the reasons for the closure. “For 36 years Archicentre has provided Australians with a wide range of quality architectural services. During this time the market and environment in which Archicentre operates has changed dramatically and what was once a unique and innovative business model has become one of many service providers in an increasingly competitive and densely populated market,” said Maher. “An important change during this period has been the welcome improvement of consumer watchdogs, strengthening consumer protections in a way that overarches the services Archicentre was established to provide. “The nature of the architectural profession has also…

Coping in a tough economic climate. In 2008 we went all over the world looking for work. So we went into Mexico and all sorts of funny places. The Middle East. And the one that worked was China. Future proofing. We have a lot of repeat business. So Nottingham University – five or six buildings. Oxford University – five or six buildings. We have an engagement program and we try to look after our existing clients and make sure they are happy. Networking. You don’t realise when you’re at university, it’s quite important to go to events and meet people all the time. Keep meeting them, going to see them, keep sending them books. We just do a lot of networking. Starting out. Remain really light on your feet. Don’t…

THE USE OF ROBUST FINISHES SUCH AS RECYCLED BRICKWORK AND ROUGHLY SAWN, RECYCLED TIMBER IS DERIVED FROM THE INTENTION TO HAVE THE INTERIOR MIRROR AN INDUSTRIAL WORKSHOP. How did the TJ house project come to you and was it a long tender process? The project was slightly unusual because it was a singular fitout of an apartment within a larger development. The clients knew the joiner they wanted to use and the joiner recommended BWA to them for architectural services, as we had worked together previously. There wasn’t a conventional tender process for this project as the work had to be separately programmed within other parts of the apartment development. It sounds like the clients were pretty involved in the creative direction of the home? By the time BWA came…

“THE BOOK PROVIDED VALUE TO US AS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR REFLECTION, AND THERE ARE NOT MANY OPPORTUNITIES FOR THIS IN THE BUSY LIFE OF AN ARCHITECTURAL PRACTICE.” STEFAN MEE THE CASE FOR : / STEFAN MEE PRINCIPAL, JOHN WARDLE ARCHITECTS At John Wardle Architects we have embarked upon two publications that describe our work. The first, called Volume, was released in 2008 and the second, called This Building Likes Me, is being unpacked onto the shelves of a bookstore near you as I write. While both of these quite rightly could be described as monographs, I think that this may be a misnomer. Within our practice and in conversations with the publisher, editor and graphic designer we always simply used ‘the book’ to describe them. “When might the book be…