The Royal Australian Institute of Architects (RAIA) has announced 12 outstanding Australian buildings to feature in the Australian Pavilion at the 10th Venice Architecture Biennale from 10 September to 19 November 2006.
“From industrial woolsheds to shipwreck lookouts, from riverside apartments to rural art spaces, the buildings are of different scales, types and uses,” said Melbourne-based architects and academics Shane Murray and Nigel Bertram, the Australian Pavilion’s Creative Directors. “They were selected to highlight eight different aspects of our contemporary urban The Royal Australian Institute of Architects (RAIA) would like to announce 12 outstanding Australian buildings to feature in the Australian Pavilion at the 10th Venice Architecture Biennale from 10 September to 19 November 2006. These exceptional buildings were specifically chosen by Shane Murray and Nigel Bertram, the Australian Pavilion’s Creative Directors, to represent their Micro-Macro city theme for the exhibition.
Snapshots of the contemporary Australian urban condition will be exhibited through the following eight themes and 12 projects:
The reinvention and post-industrial diversification of rural towns is shown in the theme Shrinkage and the International Art Space Kellerberrin, in the wheat belt of Western Australia (Donaldson & Warn Architects).
Diversity amidst homogeneity in the suburbs is explored through the section Expansion together with three houses: Poll House (Gary Marinko Architects) and Wherehouse (Simon Anderson) both in Perth, Western Australia and D House in New Farm, Brisbane, QLD (Donovan Hill).
New industry, residential development and existing farms compete for the same space in the subject Interface presented together with Deepwater Woolshed, Wagga Wagga, NSW (Stutchbury & Pape).
The reoccupation of redundant industrial and commercial precincts with a mixture of uses and their subsequent interactions are explored in Overlap and the Kaurna Building, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA (John Wardle Architects + Hassell).
The Micro/Health Laboratory, University of Queensland Gatton Campus, Gatton, QLD (m3architecture) is an example of a new development targeting previously ignored spaces in the theme Absorption which considers the growing role of regional centres.
The Marion Cultural Centre, Marion, SA (Ashton Raggatt McDougall + Phillips/Pilkington Architects) is presented with Exchange, which looks at the suburban shopping centre car-park as a location of social, communal and cultural exchange.
Two recent projects from Sydney Olympic Park NSW: Brickpit Ring (Durbach Block Architects) and Shipwreck Lookout (Neeson Murcutt Architects), are presented in the category Re-use. The Olympic site was an ex-industrial precinct, transformed as special event entertainment space and is currently undergoing a third wave of regeneration as a recreational precinct linked to the everyday life of Sydney.
In Oversupply success breeds success as one type of development attracts similar occupations resulting in an intense relationship as seen in the QV2 apartments, Melbourne, VIC (McBride Charles Ryan + NH Architecture) and Riparian Plaza, Brisbane, QLD (Harry Seidler and Associates).
The Pavilion will feature specially commissioned photographs by Australian photographers Max Creasy, Paul Knight, Matthew Sleeth and Selina Ou, with videos of people interacting with their environments by Richard Raber, Naomi Bishops, Danius Kesminas, Ronnie van Hout and Anna Jeffries and sound-recordings by Nicholas Murray.
The Architecture Biennale was inaugurated in 1980 and is now held every two years. Thousands of the world’s leading architects and media attend the professional preview and more than 115,000 people visit the three-month exhibition. To read more on the history of the Venice Architecture Biennale please click here.
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