Innholdsfortegnelse for March - April 2017 i Architectural Review Asia Pacific

dormakaba offer the following services: Architectural Specifications • Develop detailed door by door architectural specifications and schedules in a presentable and easy to read format. • A dormakaba specification will include solutions for all door types and openings, including – ° Commercial Door Hardware ° Automatic Door Operators – sliding, swinging, in-ground, revolving doors ° Access Control Solutions – card readers, proximity readers, electronic locking ° Frameless Glass Fittings – stacking systems, patches, rails ° Physical Access Systems – pedestrian control systems ° Movable Acoustic Partitions including vertical panel systems • dormakaba’s entire specification team undergoes continual training and development. Our many years of experience provide you with peace of mind that the specification service we offer is first class. • dormakaba’s team has an intimate knowledge of Australian &…

IF YOU ARE LOOKING OUTSIDE OF TRADITIONAL ADVERTISING, BUT YOU STILL WANT TO HAVE SOME MEASURE OF CONTROL OVER WHAT IS BEING SAID, PR IS NOT FOR YOU. As with many creative industries there are definitely architects out there who think of PR as a dirty word. There’s a belief that they have too much integrity to sully themselves with such shenanigans and their work is wonderful enough to stand by itself. Having someone paid to spruik it on their behalf is something best left to less noble enterprises, like car sales and Kardashian beauty products. Such thinking is very short-sighted indeed, says the managing director of Flaunt Marketing, Sharyn Lowe. Lowe’s company has been working across multiple industries and brands for over 20 years and she is forthright and…

“ON THEIR OWN, AN ARCHITECT MAY ONLY BE ABLE TO AFFORD A DESK, BUT THESE AREAS APPEAL TO TEAMS GROWING WITHIN THE CO-WORKING SPACE.” – KYRSTYAN MCLEOD, HASSELL Judging by the crowds around 8am and 5pm on trains and buses getting to and from their jobs, not to mention roads at those times being chockers with cars, the idea that work is now flexible seems remote. Yet, Regus, a leading provider of serviced and virtual offices, in 2015 reported that 86 percent of startups and small business responders had reliable and fast information and communications technology as their top priority. Mobile devices promote a-work-is-where-I-am philosophy and more and more spaces have emerged to cater for people who want a new form of workplace. Some are from commercial property groups, others…

Architect’s statement. The University of NSW School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering occupied two ‘legacy’ buildings from the original 1950s campus – a ‘T’ shaped teaching and academic offices building and a low-rise laboratory. These buildings were no longer functional as contemporary learning environments, with academics and research students disconnected, and academic offices isolated from teaching spaces, which were without informal learning areas. The ‘legacy’ buildings are characterised by a vertical masonry expression, chevron concrete soffits and circular motif entry screen. Our design strategy was to respect these buildings through reworking the chevron and circular geometries of the original building into a contemporary expression. Originally designed for teaching spaces, the wider building facing the campus mall has been refurbished with a new façade and replanned with academic offices and HDR…

This year’s event has a particularly dashing theme – ‘Bold, Forward, Tilted’ and will once again recognise both Australia’s and New Zealand’s diversely creative and outstanding use of colour across commercial and residential spaces. The 20017 judging panel comprises a raft of some of the most respected practitioners and experts in the local architecture, design and creative industries, namely Ryan Russell (director at Russell and George), Maurice Terzini (restaurateur and fashion designer), Fiona Lynch (director at Fiona Lynch Interior Design and winner of Designer of the Year at IDEA 2016), Timothy Hill (director at Partners Hill) and Shelley Ferguson (editor in chief of Your Home and Garden New Zealand). Together they will select the winning projects and award the Grand Prix winner with a cash prize of $5000. The awards…

The Palace of Assembly was designed by the legendary French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret). Located in Chandigarh India, the building was completed in 1963. It was designed as part of the Capitol Complex, which includes three major buildings: the Palace of (or Legislative) Assembly, the Secretariat and the High Court. Le Corbusier was arguably one of the most influential architects of the 20th century, a pioneer of the modern movement. He was also a painter, writer and urban planner. As with many of his projects, Le Corbusier collaborated with his cousin, Pierre Jeanneret to design and furnish every aspect of these three significant buildings, from the furniture to the door handles. Following the partition in 1947, Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, commissioned Le Corbusier to design…

RESEARCH, ON THE OTHER HAND, OFFERS ARCHITECTS THE OPPORTUNITY TO EXPLORE THEIR OWN PRACTICE ON A DEEPER LEVEL, SPARKING INNOVATION AND LEADING TO PUBLICATIONS AND OPPORTUNITIES TO PRESENT IN CONFERENCES AROUND THE WORLD. As a practising architect, teaching at university is a great way of staying connected to research and academia, while nurturing the next generation of architects. At universities, faculties are generally divided into two groups of architects – those who are career academics and devote most of their time to teaching and research (not to mention administration), and those who are adjuncts, sessional lecturers who teach for part of the year while working for the rest of their time as an architect. Teaching is not for everyone, but can be rewarding, offering architects the chance to share their…

WHILE CARTING CONCRETE PANELS FOR ON-SITE ASSEMBLY ISN’T NEW, PARTICULARLY IN INDUSTRIAL AND LARGE-SCALE PROJECTS, CREATING THEM AT THE CONSTRUCTION SITE IS. While the 20th century was exemplified by the Henry Ford business model of mass production with limited customisation, three-dimensional (3D) printing allows us to create bespoke objects at a relatively low cost with the ability to refine and reproduce ideas and designs. Rietveld Architects in New York uses a 3D printer made by Objet to create building models. In the past, creating models for clients was undertaken near the end of the design process. The creation was labour intensive and resulted in a single copy being produced. With a 3D printer, Rietveld Architects can not only create multiple models that allow different project stakeholders to have their own…

FEW ARCHITECTS HAVE ANY TRAINING OR EXPERIENCE IN DEVELOPING A BUSINESS PLAN AND THEREFORE DO NOT KNOW HOW TO APPROACH THIS IMPORTANT TASK. On winning a new project, one of the first things an architect does, and usually does well, is develop a program that will guide the project, ensuring that milestones are reached and nothing gets missed. Projects cannot be left to chance, yet the biggest project most undertake is often subjected to exactly that. That project is the building of the practice and the missing ingredient is, so often, a proper business plan. For all the excuses that are heard, the real reason so many fail to create a business plan, or have an inadequate one, is that, unlike the project program, few architects have any training or…

When it comes to the issue of safe and smooth passenger flow throughout a building there are few public space facilities where it is as critical to get it right as in a healthcare environment. Hospitals rely on reliable and swift transit of all users of the facility, but particularly patients and staff. The newly opened Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre (VCCC) is a purpose-built centre of excellence for cancer research treatment, education and care located in Melbourne’s Parkville Biomedical Precinct. It was designed to deliver maximum functional area with a blend of clinical, administrative and research facilities. It is only logical that all facets of its infrastructure should be as ground-breaking and state-of-the-art as the activities within. Innovative and built-for purpose technology means that the elevators in the VCCC are…