We visited the Incubator at Macquarie University this week. What a stunning timber facade with internal spaces designed for creativity, to inspire our future entrepreneurs.
https://www.mq.edu.au/about/about-the-university/offices-and-units/macquarie-university-incubator
Proud to be involved in the “Wish” development located in Bruce, Canberra with the creative collaborative of TP Dynamics and AURORA Design. At the marketing launch last Friday, we were entertained and humbled by the words of TP Dynamics Founding Director Tony Pan, on his vision for Bruce and the value he places on people and relationships.
Wishing for a beautifully crafted new home, designed by amazing architects, in an established area close to entertainment, lifestyle and study precincts? Your wish is here.
Wish is 56 beautifully planned townhouses and 12 Sky Terraces in the heart of tranquil Bruce. The Wish village has an abundance of style and substance both inside and out with a mix of two and three bedroom townhouses, each with basement or undercroft car parking beneath. Live the lifestyle you have always wished for with the best sporting and entertainment venues in Canberra just a stroll away and numerous boutique shops, cafes and restaurants at your fingertips including Westfield Belconnen just down the road.
Exciting to see the Bruce Masterplan Project develop from Concept through to Marketing Phase. My first project collaborating with AURORA Design, since starting my own practice in February 2018. I have known the director of AURORA Design, Maurice Mandalinic for over 24 years and its great to work with someone who not only has extensive experience in Residential Design and Delivery, but who is also a good friend. Equally impressive is TP Dynamic’s vision to improve the Urban Streetscape of Bruce through quality design and their ability to promote innovative and creative design solutions.
Having visited Japan in 2016, I was delighted to find these images in Pinterest. I drove past the Nagakin Capsule Tower (photo below) designed by Kisho Kurowaka and always wanted to know what it looked like inside. Some lessons to learn from this 1972 building on how to design micro, affordable housing for the masses.
Prefabricated construction is in its infancy but with increasing demand on tradition construction and speed and the sustainability benefits of prefabrication, could this new manufacturing industry change the way Australia builds?
Source: The future is prefabricated
The beauty of slender buildings. An example of the design talent of Rothelowman and the collaborative process between architect and engineer. The result. An innovative, parametric design that saves costs on structure and provides sheltered balconies from the wind.
The Les Choux De Cretiel building is brutalist and beautiful.
http://www.archdaily.com/806139/new-map-celebrates-paris-brutalist-architecture?utm_medium=email&utm_source=ArchDaily%20List
The images below are select photographs of a trip I took to Japan in July this year. Tokyo was very clean, the food amazing and the people ultra friendly and polite and I will go back again……….but these are all cliches you’ve heard before, possibly from every person you know who has visited that part of the world. Do you know anyone who hasn’t liked Japan?
Hopefully though, you haven’t seen some of the amazing buildings I photographed on my travels and you get to view them in real life some day. Being the architectural nerd that I am, I researched before my trip as well as trawled the streets looking for inspirational architecture. I spent most of my time in Tokyo, but also took a day trip to an ominous Shogun temple in Nikko, followed by an Onsen in the middle of a green and wooded hillside. You would be happy to know there are no photographs of that wonderful experience.
Kenzo Tange – Yoyogi National Gymnasium
Kisho Kurokawa – Nakagin Capsule Hotel
Le Corbusier – National Museum of Modern Art
Makato Watanabe – K Museum
Makato Watanabe – Aoyama Technical College
Tadao Ando – Omotesando Hills
Toyo Ito – Todd’s Building
SANAA – Dior
Kengo Kuma Office & Various Works
Yoshio Taniguchi – Museum of Horyuji Treasures
Herzog and de Meuron – Prada
Jean Nouvel – Mui Mui
Unknown Architect
Nikko Temple – Shogun Shrine
Unknown Architect after an Onsen – at peace and one with nature.
