At the WAF awards ceremony on Friday night Enric Ruiz-Geli of Cloud 9 which designed the Media-TIC building, said it should act as a 'seed for an environmental revolution'. He said, 'If it doesn't happen, we will not succeed with our fight against global warming.'
Ruiz-Geli took to the stage with his entire family, saying, 'This is what happens when you win an award at home.' His nine-year old son, Iago, had chosen the green colour that dominates in the building, he said. Looking at his children, he added, 'These are our clients.'
Big clap Enric, Iago and all at Cloud 9!
I'm leaving Barca now for an super looking little project 'the Illuminami' showroom by Russell + George in Rome's EUR suburb - it's in view of the Square Colosseum.
The AIA National Awards were held this year at the fantastic MONA. From what I hear it was a big-top's worth of fun. Congratulations to all the winners! Great to see two major awards heading west to Perth, including the Walter Burley Griffin Award for Urban Design that was awarded to Hassell's one40william. Congratulations also to Durbach Block Jaggers Architects for the Garden House and to Muir Mendes for the Law Street House, awarded Commendations in the Residential Architecture - Houses and Small Project categories respectively. It was pleasure working with everyone involved in these projects!
The 2011 World Architecture Festival (WAF) takes place in Barcelona this week, with a number of Australian projects in the running for awards. This the fourth year running I've attended the event covering the festivities for Architecture Australia magazine.
Winners of the 2011 WAF Awards will be announced on Friday, 4 November 2011.
30 Australian projects are among the 284 shortlisted projects coming from 59 different countries, and were selected from a record-breaking number of entries.
I photographed Woods Bagot's shortlisted entry Deakin University Building I (pictured) in Completed Buildings – Learning category.
Good luck to all the Australians!
Announcing the launch of New York based OTTO, a full-service architectural and design photography agency dedicated to licensing the work of preeminent architects and designers from around the world as captured by master contemporary photographers. OTTO represents the works of leading photographers such as Scott Frances, Peter Aaron, Tim Street-Porter, Michael Moran, Floto + Warner, Richard Barnes,Ty Cole and me!
Architecture Review Australia Residential #11 hits newstands today with NMBW Architecture Studio's Curlewis House on the cover. As well as Curlewis I photographed iph's Coleman House and Muir Mendes's Law Street House for this special issue. Curlewis House, on the Bellarine Penisular, responds to a difficult site, embracing the landscape to produce generous, comfortably contained architecture. Muir Mendes's Law Street house in South Melbourne, built by the architects for themselves over almost 5 years of weekends, reveals their love for the suburb with a nod to Álvaro Siza. iph's Coleman house in Perth's City Beach uses a unique wedge shape design and was a collaboratation with artists, making for a surprisingly flexible family home.
On 29 June 2011, violent clashes occurred between the riot police and protesters as the Greek parliament voted to accept the EU's austerity requirements. Poignantly marking the violence was this Finance Ministry building in Plaka. I was fascinated by the patina of soot left on the 70's building. Completely burnt out, the building was blacker than black in the harsh light of day.
Dezeen magazine, one of the world's most popular and influential design blogs has as it's most popular story this week the Holman House by Durbach Block Jaggers. In the last week Dezeen has featured House 20 by Jolson, Law Street House by Muir Mendes and CentralTAFE Perth by Lyons.
For the second week running I've photographed Dezeen's most looked at story - Law Street House by Muir Mendes. And yes, we'll be joining Amy and Bruno in their house in case of a zombie apocalypse.
There was a celebration this Friday - the Victorian chapter awards ceremony for the AIA awards, today there's a few sore heads...including mine! It was a terrific night at the Crown Palladium Ballroom and a strong field made it hard to pick the winners. Every entrant deserved to be applauded with congratulations to all the winners. I was once again privileged to have photographed a good number of the entries and a few of the winners.
A regional Architecture prize went to Bamford-Dash for their Marysville Rebuilding Advisory Centre...I'd better declare my interest - Jane Dash is my sister and this is the first project her new practice with Barbara Bamford has completed.
Sorrento House (pictured), a humble beach house by NMBW Architecture Studio took out the the Harold Desbrowe-Annear Award Victoria's top residential architectural prize. Incredible detail and sensitivity resound in this project.
Law Street House by Muir Mendes won an Architecture Award in housing, another first project for a new practice.
BKK's Beached House received an Architecture Award in Housing.
Carrum Downs 24hr Police Station by Kerstin Thompson Architects won an Architecture Award in Public New.
Deakin University Building I by Woods Bagot won an Architecture Award in the Public Alterations and additions category.
Congratulations to all the winners at Friday's Western Australian AIA chapter Awards. Did I say I'd to contend with the usual 40+ degree heat of Perth's summer and a cyclone to deal with!
iredale pedersen hook's Florida Beach House won the state's top residential award. On the WA south coast, Florida is just past Miami - of course! The jury that bestowed the award hailed the design as outstanding and inspirational. 'Its resolution has met the challenges presented to all sites facing the Indian Ocean; priorities of view and orientation, shelter and exposure, appropriate use of materials, and the functional and symbolic acknowledgement of its 'place''.
The George Temple Poole Award, which is the WA Chapter's highest honour and is given to the year's overall winning architectural project, went to HASSELL for its commercial project one40william in the city. In determining the George Temple Poole Award, the jury said: "The design team, contractor and developer have worked as an integrated team to resolve the complex construction challenges associated with building over an operating train station to incorporate heritage building fabric into the works and to deliver a high-quality addition to the urban grain of Perth's central retail and business district." one40williaim also won for HASSELL the Ross Chisholm Award for Commercial Architecture and the John Septimus Roe Award for Urban Design.
Just published is TRIPTYCH: The Penthouse Collection a monograph of my photographs of the just completed Triptych Apartments in Melbourne's Arts Centre Precinct. Commissioned by Stable Properties' Beatrice Imbert and designed by the Büro North team of Soren Luckins, Jason Mildren and David Williamson this tome is truly beautiful. Printed on silver foil with post production/colour work by Visual Thing, the book highlights the collaboration of architects Nettleton Tribe, artist Robert Owen, interior designers Carr Design, Büro North and the building's developer Stable Properties.
My photograph of a detail of Danish designer Louise Campbell's work Displacement Activity No. 1 is the cover story of Monument magazine #103. Photographed for this issue's Frontier feature on Copenhagen, I spent a morning photographing Louise as she installed the art works in the Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art. 'Den Frie' translates as the 'The Free'. The galleryi is a 100+ year old weatherboard building oppersite Østerport station which features beautiful natural light on even the dullest Copenhagen day.
Working together with Fabio Ongarato Design and their team of Fabio, Maurice Lai, Katherine McQuarrie & Meg Phillips and my team of John Hamiliton (as maestro retoucher), Max Schafer (intern) & Andrew Butler (digital operator) along with Chris Sherwood (pilot) we've produced an advertising and art series of images for The Capitol. The Capitol designed by architects Bates Smart is a new apartment development on Toorak and Chapel Street, South Yarra. Photographing with ALPA cameras, a Leaf Aptus II-10 (56mp) digital back, Tyler Gyro, and Bell Jetranger III one image from the series has been reproduced as 12.5m x 3m Durotrans print for The Capitol's display suite. This image is one of the largest and highest resoloution prints ever made and from a helicopter while hovering over South Yarra in the late afternoon. You can visit The Capitol display suite and see the print for yourself at 367 Chapel street from 2011. I've had the pleasure too of working with Flood Slicer's Sam Slicer and Daniel Flood over the visualisations, great work!
Photographing the Ordrupgaard Museum extension by Zaha Hadid Architects I was taken by this demonstration of the Danish concept of hygge, which roughly translates as 'cosy'. Here a flock of Finn Juhl's Pelican chairs sit in contrast to the flowing forms of Hadid's black lava like concrete.
The awards season has been silly! Since January 5th we’ve photographed 44 projects in 5 Australian states for the AIA chapter awards AND completed two major advertising commissions. It’s meant contending with cyclones, floods, 40+ degree heat. I photographed a beautiful house that burnt down a week later and another was cleaned out by burglars the night before the shoot!!
Accompanied by intern Roger Qian (whose blog describes the shooting blow by blow) and assistants Max Schaeffer and Nils Koenning and backed up in the studio by John Hamilton on processing and retouching we’ve covered some ground and seen some things. I’ve been humbled to have photographed some of the very best new built work in Australia. Project photography has been commissioned by Anthony Gill, Bamford-Dash, BATES SMART, BKK, BLP, Durbach Block Jaggers, HASSELL, iph, Jolson, Kerstin Thompson Architects, KUD, LYONS, Muir Mendes, NettletonTribe, NMBW, Nobbs Radford, PHOOEY, Paul Morgan and Woods Bagot.
It’s been a blast…good luck everyone!!
Hilton South Wharf by Woods Bagot and NH Architecture is the hospitality category winner and overall winner 2010 of the IDEA awards. I'd photographed the Hilton and adjacent Melbourne Convention Centre over three years of construction for 'The Private Life of Public Architecture' book and was commissioned to photograph the Hilton for the cover of the awards edition of (inside) magazine.
2010 National Architecture Awards were announced at a ceremony in the National Gallery Canberra last night. Congratulations to all the winners!
It's been a great privilege to have photographed many of the winning projects. I'm humbled to have had so many wonderful projects before my camera. Awarded projects photographed include;
5-9 Roslyn Street in Kings Cross by Durbach Block Architects – awarded this year’s top Harry Seidler Award for Commercial Architecture. The jury said the building has “a particularly human quality” and they had “a strong sense that this building would adapt and change gracefully to changes in commercial use over time – a mark of an exemplar commercial building”.
HASSELL received 3 awards including the Emil Sodersten Award for Interior Architecture for the ANZ Centre in Melbourne, and a National Commendation for Urban Design for the Adelaide Zoo Entrance Precinct in Adelaide.
Lyons Architecture Office (Melbourne, VIC) by NMBW Architecture Studio was awarded twice, receiving a National Award for Interior Architecture and a National Commendation for Sustainable Architecture.
The Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre by Woods Bagot and NH Architecture received a National Award for Public Architecture
Australian Expo Pavilion in Shanghai, China by Wood/Marsh received The Colorbond® Award for Steel Architecture.
Short-listed for this year's World Architecture Festival awards are 3 projects that I’ve been fortunate to have photographed. And in more good fortune I’m going to be in Barcelona again for this year's WAF – I'll have been to all three festivals.
Shortlisted projects that I photographed include;
The ANZ Headquarters Melbourne and the Adelaide Zoo Precinct by HASSELL and also the 'MAXXI' - National Museum of the XXI Century Arts by Zaha Hadid Architects.
The WAF runs from 3-5 November 2010. See you in Barcelona!
I'm giving a masterclass on Monday 19 July 2010 at the University of Queensland School of Architecture for Writing Architecture. Writing Architecture concerns innovations in the textual and Visual Critique of Buildings. Writing Architecture is convened by Dr Naomi Stead of the ATCH (Architecture|Theory| Criticism|History) Research Centre in the School of Architecture at The University of Queensland.
To attend download this call for participants.
Congratulations to the winners in the Australian Institute of Architects Victorian Chapter Awards!! The Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre by NH Architecture and Woods Bagot scooped four of the highest honours as well as Victoria's highest prize the Victorian Architecture Medal. Successfully crossing design boundaries the MCEC won the William Wardell Award for Public Architecture, the Steel Architecture Award, an Award for Sustainable Architecture and the Melbourne Prize.
I'd photographed the MCEC over 3 years through construction and its subsequent completion for the book project 'The Private Life of Public Architecture'.
Another major winner I'd the pleasure to photograph is the ANZ Centre by HASSELL and Lend Lease, honoured with the Marion Mahony Award for Interior Architecture and a Commercial Architecture Award. The jury said 'It is refreshing to be reminded of what can be achieved when there is an alignment of budget, an informed client, a committed builder and an experienced and imaginative design team,’.
Winners of architecture awards that I'd the pleasure and privilege to photograph included NMBW Architecture Studio's Studio for Lyons with an award for Interior Architecture. Andrew Maynard won for Anglesea House a Residential Architecture Award - Alterations and Additions.
BKK's Beached House is the cover story of Houses® #94. I'm chuffed that we made the cover of the relaunch issue of Houses. The magazine has been redesigned by Art Director Ken Leung of Monocle and Vanity Fair renown. Really well done to the Houses crew - Cameron Bruhn, Katelin Butler, Peter Davies, Sue Harris et al.
The magazine now has a regular feature titled 'revisted' in which projects older than 10 years are literally 'revisited' - photographed and reviewed. It was a particular privilege to, along with Fleur Watson and Cameron Bruhn meet Neil Clerehan at his Brighton House, completed in 1968. Apart from a few minor alterations - which meet with Neil's approval - the house is beautifully intact, a testament to the longevity of his architectural principles.