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Articles by Cameron Bruhn
David Malouf on The New Queensland House
Brisbane, from its beginnings, presented a unique urban landscape. Its tin-roofed, one-storeyed weatherboards – protected by verandahs against the subtropical sunlight and raised on wooden stumps to deal with the hilly terrain of one bank of its serpentine river and the recurrent flooding of the other – had more in common with the British and French colonies of the Caribbean and near Pacific than with the Georgian stone terraces and villas of the southern European capitals.
2023 Houses Awards: New House over 200m2 - joint winner
Jury comment Connection to landscape is an often-cited aim for clients and architects alike, but rarely is it achieved so completely and successfully as it is at Merricks Farmhouse. On an extraordinary site, this abstraction of the Australian farmhouse is an equally remarkable building, carefully considered and beautifully resolved. Located on a prominent hilltop site with sweeping vistas and corresponding exposure to the coastal climate, the house skilfully balances prospect and refuge.
Merricks Farmhouse by Michael Lumby with Nielsen Jenkins
Merricks Farmhouse by Michael Lumby Architecture with Nielsen Jenkins is located on Victoria’s picturesque Mornington Peninsula, set among the region’s amiable wineries and charming seaside hamlets. The elevated, fifty-acre property is on a country lane that is delicately concealed from the passing traffic moving along the arterial thoroughfare nearby.
Queen and Collins
At Queen and Collins by Kerstin Thompson Architects (KTA) and BVN, civic, architectural and commercial accomplishment unite flawlessly. The cultural scaffold for this significant achievement is the sustained period of built environment leadership, research and advocacy that has nurtured and cultivated the urbane life of Melbourne’s iconic CBD.
Nine books featuring Australian residential architecture
Architecture at the Heart of the Home By Jan Henderson and Dianna Snape (Thames and Hudson, 2021) Image: Thames and Hudson Long-time friends Jan Henderson and Dianna Snape have teamed up for this survey of 22 Australian houses, which focuses on those parts of the home that people naturally gravitate to – the “heart” that gives the book its title.
‘Ingeniously demure’: Muttaburrasaurus Interpretation Centre
The unofficial community Facebook page for Muttaburra, a tiny Central Queensland town founded on the tribal lands of the Iningai in the 1870s and today home to fewer than 100 people, is curiously titled “I’m not trying to impress you but, I’m from Muttaburra.” This tongue-in-cheek brag by the town’s laconic and resilient burghers is material to the story of the new Brian Hooper Architect-designed Muttaburrasaurus Interpretation Centre, a building that celebrates and commemorates the...
Instructive reimagining: Pinjarra Hills House
French fashion icon Coco Chanel famously advised the dresser to pause with intention when stepping out: “Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take one thing off.” Her quip can equally be applied to architectural undertakings, strongly aligning with the modernist mantra “Less is More” popularized by German-born architect Mies van der Rohe and his iconoclastic mid-twentieth-century circle.
Griffith Review 77: Real Cool World - Panel
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A beguiling, graphic and cinematic sensibility: Ian Strange's 'Dalison'
There are compelling contradictions and complexities in the multidisciplinary artworks of Ian Strange. The Perth-born artist, who over the past decade has lived and worked in the USA and Australia, is known for his eerie explorations of domestic circumstances in crisis and decline.
A beguiling, graphic and cinematic sensibility: Ian Strange's 'Dalison'
There are compelling contradictions and complexities in the multidisciplinary artworks of Ian Strange. The Perth-born artist, who over the past decade has lived and worked in the USA and Australia, is known for his eerie explorations of domestic circumstances in crisis and decline.
Venturous and engaging: Rockhampton Museum of Art
Designed by a tripartite architectural team that coalesces the local and national expertise of Conrad Gargett, Clare Design and Brian Hooper Architect, the new Rockhampton Museum of Art is a catalyst for the advancement of art and culture in regional Queensland and a new public building that substantially contributes to revitalizing the CBD of the Central Queensland city.
Amplifying an enveloping experience: Sunrise Studio
One of my favourite television programs as a child was the award-winning mid-week drama A Country Practice. Running from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s, the bucolic series followed the life and times of the tight-knit community living and working in the fictional New South Wales town of Wandin Valley. The storylines were primarily told through the lens of the hardworking and beloved general practitioners, the doctors who ran the private medical clinic and staffed the little hospital.
Architectural egalitarianism: Kingborough Community Hub
Sometime in the 1990s, the cyber-prophet William Gibson proclaimed, “The future is already here – it’s just not very evenly distributed.” Gibson’s pithy maxim is about the uptake of technology and the global disparities created by wealth and location. There is something about Tasmania, and in particular Hobart, that speaks to Gibson’s trope. In Tasmania, an exciting future that has already arrived presses up close with an incontrovertible socioeconomic unevenness.
Shells, sails and upturned hulls: National Maritime Museum of China
In one of the gallery spaces of the National Maritime Museum of China there is a small, easily overlooked display of hand-decorated porcelain. It is a grouping of exquisite bowls, plates and tureens made in China in the eighteenth century and destined for grand dining tables in Europe and the USA.
AA January/February 2019 preview
Click to enlarge Architecture Australia January/February 2019. Image: Brett Boardman 1 of 5 A survey of architecture in regional, rural and remote Australia. 2 of 5 Les Wilson Burramundi Discovery Centre by Bud Brannigan Architects. Image: David Sandison 3 of 5 Dossier: Reframing the regional conversation. Guest edited by Helen Norrie. 4 of 5 The Creamery, Bannister Downs Dairy by Bosske Architecture. Image: Peter Bennetts 5 of 5 Architecture Australia January/February 2019.
AA November/December 2018 preview
This issue will be my last as Architecture Media’s editorial director. By the time this 2018 National Architecture Awards celebratory volume is published I will be in my new role as Dean of Architecture and Head of School in the University of Queensland’s School of Architecture. My life in architecture as a writer, editor and advocate has been incredibly rewarding, personally and professionally.
Experience is key for the hotels of the future
There has been much talk in the hotel industry about creating a “narrative” experience in hotels. “Experience” is the key word here, as hoteliers and hotel brands are looking to provide unique, immersive and fully curated experiences. Hotels are not just about the rooms. DKO an architectural and interior design practise with six studios across three countries, is currently designing a total of 18 hotels through out Australasia, South Pacific and Asia.
AA September/October 2018 preview
This issue of Architecture Australia celebrates the outcomes of the Institute’s Chapter Awards in the lead-up to the National Architecture Awards, which will be announced in Melbourne on 1 November. A total of 264 entries have been recognized locally, with 203 now in the running for national honours. Our congratulations to all the practices and people recognized in each of the chapters and to every firm that generously presented its built work for peer assessment.
AA July/August 2018 preview
The centrepiece of this issue is a celebration of the Australian Instituteof Architects’ 2018 Gold Medallist, Alexander Tzannes, founding director of Sydney-based practice Tzannes. The cover image, by Toby Burrows, captures Alec in a moment of deep contemplation – set against the atmospheric volume of the grand central hall at Tzannes’ recently completed Dangrove building – an art storage and curation centre in eastern Sydney.
AA May/June 2018 preview
This future-focused issue of Architecture Australia is guest-edited by a team from Monash University, led by Shane Murrayand Alysia Bennett. Shane and Alysia have worked with their Monash University colleagues Naomi Stead, Nicole Kalms and Catherine Murphy (as advisers) to consider emerging directions in Australian housing. With the overarching theme of “Housing Diversity” the team has considered the significant challenges facing Australia’s housing sector.
AA March/April 2018 preview
The architect’s own house is a recurring motif in this issue.
AA January/February 2018 preview
One of the most enduring images of the Gold Coast for my generation is P. J. Hogan’s acclaimed 1994 film Muriel’s Wedding. Like protagonist Muriel Heslop, the Gold Coast has at times taken on the metaphoric qualities of the black sheep.
AA November/December 2017 preview
The Institute’s National Architecture Awards celebrate what design can do – how it shapes the city, grows business, educates and heals the individual, nurtures communities and delivers on policy and strategy. A number of the projects recognized in the 2017 awards program (and recorded in this special year-end issue) have been peer-reviewed in previous issues of this magazine.
AA September/October 2017 preview
This issue records the outcomes of the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2017 chapter awards, telling the story of Australian architecture and its achievements over the past year. The chapter awards are presented across the nation’s six states, two territories and internationally in the lead-up to the National Architecture Awards, presented in Canberra in November.
AA July/August 2017 preview
The global market for built environment expertise is creating new opportunities for Australian architecture. The profession’s international growth over the past thirty years has been nothing short of remarkable. It has expanded the reach of Australian architecture and has the potential to reshape its identity. Australian practitioners have been living and working internationally since the 1960s.
AA May/June 2017 preview
This issue of Architecture Australia opens with the announcement of the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2017 National Prizes. These awards recognize individual members of the profession and celebrate prodigious and promising contributions to Australian architecture (pages 15–26). Our congratulations to the eleven prize recipients this year. There is an important new national prize in 2017 – the Paula Whitman Leadership in Gender Equity Prize.
Melbourne Cup Carnival marquees
The Birdcage marquees at the annual Melbourne Cup Carnival are a design typology that is hard to define. On a functional level they are a branch of hospitality design. Marquees can be as genteel as a country club and as pumped-up as a nightclub – and sometimes the one marquee can be both, depending on the time of day you visit. These carefully orchestrated interiors for the theatre of social exchange are temporary, which also makes them a type of installation design.
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