Innholdsfortegnelse for June - July 2018 i Architectural Review Asia Pacific

Do your eyes glaze over at the above acronym? Are you someone for whom the details of tax/P&L/balance sheets and their ilk are necessary evils, and merely the tedious tasks through which you must trudge in order to get on with what you really love to do; i.e. design and create beautiful buildings? You’re not alone. Even Andrew Martin, who has provided a most useful and well thought out guide to issues that practices should be considering at EOFY (another oft dreaded acronym), was concerned about his advice being too dry (spoiler: it’s not). And our cover profile in this issue, Elizabeth Carpenter, was happy to reveal that one of fjmt’s focuses is to make the business side of the firm so efficient that she and her colleagues can actually…

Being an effective leader. You need to listen and then you need to respond very clearly. You need to understand risk and how you can use it to its advantage. And you need to understand the values and vision of the direction you want to go in and be able to communicate that. Future proofing fjmt. We want to maintain and increase our diversity, and it’s really important to nurture new staff and make sure there’s a really strong career progression for them. We need to continue to embrace new technologies… every project we do, we always try and investigate how we can stretch a bit more. Practice expansion. It’s not really an aim of ours; what we’re interested in is looking at building a portfolio of a diversity of…

Architect’s statement. One of the main aims of architecture is to bring people together – to frame and contain a space where human connections can flourish. Four Periscopes, commissioned by MAAS (Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences) and created by TRIAS, highlights the importance of communicating within our ‘commons’. It encourages visitors to reflect – quite literally – and connect with one another through a matrix of mirrors. From afar, the four suspended, timber-clad towers are evocative of Sydney’s skyline. Up close, visitors encounter a series of immersive, periscopic mirrors. The periscopes become portals that transport us away from ourselves and, instead, encourage interactions with others. Peering into each tower reveals a complex web of connections and lines of sight, with unexpected views from the balconies to the ground floor,…

Australian Trellis Door Company ATDC has recently participated in a high-profile project at Changi Airport’s new Terminal 4, by supplying its unique security grilles to eight tenancies at T4’s Heritage Zone. Part of the job description included installing security grilles that would complement the replicated traditional façades of shop houses built before World War II. A further requirement was that the grilles were to occupy as minimal an amount of storage space as was physically possible when unlocked and opened. The grilles were all customer designed and fabricated to specific sizes. The installation was successfully completed and Changi Airport is a very satisfied customer. trellisdoors.com.au COLORBOND COLORBOND steel Matt COLORBOND steel, a popular choice for Australian residential and commercial buildings for over 50 years, introduces an elegant matt finish to…

“I SPEND QUITE A LOT OF MY DAY ACTUALLY DOING PROJECT WORK. WHAT WE’RE TRYING TO DO WITH THE OTHER SIDE OF THE PRACTICE IS TO MAKE IT AS EFFICIENT AS POSSIBLE, SO WE’RE CONSTANTLY BUILDING SYSTEMS TO HELP US.” / ELIZABETH CARPENTER, “I AM OVER HEARING, MAINLY MEN, SAYING, ‘NO ONE RESPECTS ARCHITECTS ANYMORE AND NOBODY PAYS THEIR FEES’. IF THAT IS HAPPENING, THEN LOOK AT YOUR BUSINESS MODEL AND AT WHAT YOU ARE REALLY OFFERING.” / JENNIFER CRAWFORD, “IT IS QUITE SNEAKY BECAUSE THE SENDERS PRETEND TO BE LOOKING FOR ANY ARCHITECT TO BUILD THEIR DREAM HOUSE, WHICH OF COURSE WE ALL WANT TO BELIEVE / ANNE HINDLEY, “THE SELF-INTROSPECTION THAT COMES WITH PRICING REVIEWS FOCUSES ATTENTION AND CAN LEAD TO VALUABLE INSIGHT FOR FUTURE STRATEGY AND CHANGE.”…

Always consider how you will create and capture value for a client. Ask questions to find out what the client needs and is concerned about. Work holistically so details are part of the project’s big picture. Develop a shared understanding of the problem. Interact and collaborate with your client and your team or network of experts. Work visually as well as with text. Test all possible solutions and go through many design iterations. Measure project outcomes to see which approaches work best. Charge for each stage, no matter how small.…

To begin with an explanation of the term, electromechanical locking solutions is the umbrella term for a range of locking solutions that enable access control. Whether you’re using cards or more modern day technology, such as a smartphone, for your access credential, the electromechanical locking solution is what physically locks the door. There are various different technologies available that come under this heading, but the most effective are those that can address a range of common issues including the two major ones: door misalignment and side load pressure. The latter is caused by a variety of issues. The most common are incorrect installation and excessive wear or due to the introduction and greater use of what are known as door seals. These take the form of a rubber seal that…

/ DOMINO RISCH PRINCIPAL HASSELL For some, the thought of living in an urban metropolis that embraces high density living in tall buildings fills them with dystopian visions of non-existent privacy, severely compromised lifestyles and where a quality family life is impossible. I don’t share that vision at all. Our family, with two children under 10 years old, has very deliberately chosen to live in the most dense part of our most densely populated city, and we love it. We love it because we don’t have our own backyard (who wants to mow grass!), but we have so many parks, playgrounds and community places where we meet our friends and neighbours that we live a much richer, more engaged and social life than if we had a fenced off quarter-acre…

Elizabeth Carpenter joined Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (fjmt) when it was still Mitchell/Giurgola and Thorp (MGT) back in 1994. And she’s been there ever since. When you find a practice where the values and ideas of how to run a business align so completely with your own, it makes sense to stay, she says. The beginnings of her career weren’t quite so strategic, however. Carpenter says her main impetus for going to study architecture at the University of Sydney in the first place had less to do with the discipline and more to do with the location. “I must admit the lure of the mainland was probably the driving factor for why I decided to do architecture,” she recalls, “wanting to try something different.” But by the time she was ready…

THE KNIGHT FRANK WEALTH REPORT (2017) HAS MELBOURNE SITTING AT NUMBER 12 OF 100 COUNTRIES FOR GROWTH IN THE LUXURY RESIDENTIAL MARKET. While the Muse Development is the inaugural project of the Devitt Group, it has evolved after a lengthy and robust partnership between award-winning architectural practice Bruce Henderson Architects (BHA) and founder and chief executive officer of building giant, L.U. Simon, Peter Devitt, and his son Kane. BHA and the Devitts have collaborated on many projects over the past 30 years, and all describe this project as one they believe will have a sense of ‘timelessness’. BHA and Peter Devitt have worked together on various large-scale developments across Melbourne. While L.U. Simons is based in Victoria, BHA has also been involved in developing shopping centres, hotels and office buildings…