Innholdsfortegnelse for No. 168 i Architectural Review Asia Pacific

One of the most pertinent observations of the pandemic for me has been the negation of the supposed aphorism, ‘we’re all in the same boat’. As pointed out by numerous commentators on social media, we are all in the same storm, not the same boat. And some people have superyachts, with a full complement of staff catering to their every whim. While others are barely clinging to a blow-up raft... The point is to practise kindness and reach out to others who are struggling whenever we are able to do so. To share, to treat others as we would wish to be treated and to collaborate in order to navigate a way through whatever challenges still lie ahead. The spirit of collaboration and community mindedness came up again and again…

In days of yore, 21 was when we were given the key of the door and launched out into the world as fully-fledged adults. Things aren’t that cut and dried anymore, but as BKK Architects celebrates its 21st birthday, its maturation as a practice is undeniable. Recent high-profile projects include a collaboration with Kerstin Thompson Architects on a cultural centrepiece for the City of Whitehorse, another with Kyriacou Architects on part of the Victorian Level Crossing Removal Projects and, of course, the award-winning ACMI Renewal. The practice has also just been announced as part of the preferred team on a $15 billion, city-shaping infrastructure project – the NE Link – partnering with TLC (Taylor Cullity Lethlean) and Warren and Mahoney as the urban design/landscape team. The most surprising thing perhaps…

The tool comes from Building Information Modelling (BIM) software design company Graphisoft and allows architects and engineers to create building component libraries parametrically. Graphisoft claims users will be able to create custom objects and building elements quickly without needing to write a single line of GDL code or script, due to the software tool’s easy-to-use graphical interface that was developed specifically for architects. PARAM›O was first introduced as a technology preview on Windows in July 2020 for Archicad 24, but is now for the first available for Mac users, with a built-in macOS version. The move should make it easier for existing users to upgrade to the latest version and capabilities of the software, even in mid-project. FEATURES The tool allows architects, designers and engineers to quickly create parametric design…

If you’ve ever found yourself traversing the busy residential stretch of Hotham Street in the inner Melbourne suburb of Prahran, chances are you’ve spotted the protrusion of a vast and intriguing geometric building that stands out from the crowd of suburban apartments surrounding it. As astounding inside as out, Justin Art House Museum (JAHM) blurs the delineation between art and architecture purposefully. “WE’VE NEVER SOLD A WORK, BECAUSE WE REGARD THE COLLECTION AS A DIARY OF OUR LIVES. WE COLLECT A LOT OF EMERGING ARTISTS, AND WE DON’T HAVE LABELS [N THE MUSEUM], SO PEOPLE DON’T KNOW WHETHER IT’S SOMEONE FAMOUS OR AN UNKNOWN.” - CHARLES JUSTIN The passion project of Charles and Leah Justin, it was partly inspired by their love of Kew’s Lyon Housemuseum, another purpose-built institution combining…

Design: Building on Country is the second book in the six-book First Knowledges series (edited by Margo Neale), a series that aims to provide “a deeper understanding of the expertise and ingenuity of Indigenous Australians”. Page and Memmott’s contribution to the project is a deep exploration of design and architecture, but is casting a much, much wider net to fully contextualise the cultural meanings, relevance and history of Indigenous design and practice, by referencing everything from the design of boomerangs to fish traps, Songlines, kinship and camps. The book offers a definition of Australian Aboriginal architecture as a “selected, arranged and constructed configuration of environmental properties, both natural and artificial… to result in human comfort and quality of lifestyle”. Commencing with personal accounts of their own stories and relationships to…

“I always knew I wanted to have my own practice,” says Kennon Studio founder and director Peter Kennon. Formerly an associate at a large national practice, Kennon now runs his own studio in South Yarra with five employees and little more than two years behind it. The practice has been formed closely in collaboration with James Harbard – “a colleague and brilliant architect in many forms,” says Kennon. The group is now expanding with the new work opportunities. Kennon has already produced an impressive body of work of various typologies and scale, from extensions to eight-storey buildings, and private homes to grand civic gestures. His practice focuses on conceptual design and commercial planning, with a collaborative client-centric approach. A precocious student, Kennon did not respond well to the prescriptive nature…

ACMI is the largest museum in the world focusing on screen culture and the moving image. The renewal of the 2002 museum space by BKK Architects and Second Story represents a quantum leap forward for this museum typology, but also for all types of experience design and digital culture; it questions the very nature of the physical museum itself. The project is unlike traditional museums that house physical artefacts. Instead, it is a museum that celebrates the physically intangible, virtual and ephemeral culture of the moving image, the consumers of which play an active role in its continual reproduction, they are watchers, players and makers. One of the central drivers of this new museum is to extend its boundaries beyond its physical structure at Federation Square, out into the city…