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    Fish349 Extension

    TERROIR
    It was hardly a case of terra incognita when TERROIR came to work on this latest extension of Fish349, midway along North Hobart’s popular commercial strip. In 2006, the firm transformed a grocery store – a 1970s extension in an original Georgian heritage building – into a contemporary seafood café. And so this time around, when invited to turn an adjoining car park into a Function Room, TERROIR were on familiar territory.

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    World Architecture Festival

    From October 23-25 this year, at the inaugural World Architecture Awards in Barcelona, an international jury of architecture luminaries performed an impressive number crunch. Three days, 63 countries, 722 entries, 96 building types, and only 18 awards to announce: 17 category winners, from which they would then choose the big one, 2008 Building of the Year. The task was immense, the field competitive and the standards high, but in the end, the victors emerged. We take a look at some of the first ever World Architecture Festival award winners. read more »
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    Joe Colombo - Inventing the Future

    Avuncular in his casual suits, pipe fixed in his mouth, Joe Colombo’s jovial form seems strangely at odds with his iconic sci-fi designs. But then he sits down, relaxing into his furnishings, and somehow the opposition is reconciled and he begins to look more clearly like the eccentric inventor of a utopian techno-future. His designs spring to life and suddenly seem comfortable, livable, present, as he presides over them with a calm sense of proprietary. Even the knowledge of his untimely death in 1971, on his 41st birthday, barely dampens the sense of a lively, lived-in future that emanates from these photos. read more »
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    Urban Acupuncture

    I. M. Pei, Studio Pei-Zhu and Atelier Deshaus modernise the Chinese vernacular

    Torn across temporal and spatial axes, the challenge for contemporary Chinese architects is to become both genuinely contemporary and genuinely Chinese. The tension between identity and modernity may well be an old cliché, but there is real difficulty in being modern in a world where modernity is identified with Western grandeur or communist squalor, and real conflict in building a “Chinese” architecture without slipping into pastiche or nostalgia.

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    Jean Nouvel

    Architecture’s most prestigious prize finally honours Jean Nouvel for a career of architectural experimentation.

    Jean Nouvel, bald and in black, looks like everyone’s idea of an architect. He acts the part too: formulating ideas in bed, vacationing in the South of France, and dressing only in black (except in summer, when he wears only white). Thankfully, his embodiment of architecture’s great clichés is matched by his contribution to architecture’s contemporary vocabulary. Living up to his image, he is widely recognised as one of the most influential living architects, and routinely included amongst a select group of immensely successful superstar architects.

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    "Barcode" - Recall Information Storage Centre

    Lacoste + Stevenson Architects
    Greystanes Park East, New South Wales

    The Recall Storage Facility is designed to contain six million A3 cardboard archive boxes, storage of which depends on the barcode to keep track of their location. So when Lacoste + Stevenson Architects began designing the Recall Storage Facility, the symbolic resonance of barcoding – signifying identification and individualisation, which forms a sound basis for any design principle – was too perfect to overlook

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    Melbourne Central Shopping Centre

    Ashton Raggatt McDougall
    Melbourne, VIC

    Melbourne Central was never the city’s main train station, nor was it an architectural masterpiece, or even a successful retail venture. A recent facelift, however, has taken on the challenge of rewriting past shortcomings; rejuvinating the complex much like a Hollywood star reinvents a flagging career with a new ‘image’ and a few well-chosen film and media appearances.

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    Carriage Works

    The Eveleigh Rail Workshop was a glamour project of the 1880s. Tonkin Zulaikha Greer's acclaimed rebirthing of the old carriage workshop makes a few modern insertions while retaining sweeping perspectives of its massive industrial volume. read more »
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    The Great Indoors Awards

    The Great Indoors Awards aspire to shape their discipline. At once promotion and pedagogy, they aim to combat a certain listlessness in interior design, a sense that the discipline is not yet "mature" and that its glamour and influence fall short of the neighbouring disciplines of architecture and product design. read more »
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    Left of the Forbidden City

    Paul Andreu
    Beijing


    Paul Andreu's elliptical National Grand Theatre was a project which seemed ready to join other unbuilt Chinese works by Zaha Hadid, Toyo Ito, and other noted architects; but today stands tall near Beijing's Forbidden Palace, having weathered the PR storm. read more »