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We all know that architecture is for the rich. But in Melbourne's inner south-east, a programme initiated by the city of St Kilda in 1985 has for over twenty years [...]

The State Library of Queensland is both a research library of 'last resort' and a flagship facility for the entire Queensland library system. The redeveloped building skilfully negotiates these two [...]

Deakin Central consists of four buildings and a spare roof. Described by programme, the buildings are: a lofty recreation hall that can be used for a number of court sports, [...]

The new Access and Language building at the Chisholm Institute of TAFE's Dandenong campus in Melbourne's outer east has been devised to give the institution a higher profile--an aspect it [...]

REWORKING AN ICONIC building is a risky thing to do. Roy Grounds' edifice for the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) is a particularly cranky icon: grand and forbidding in external [...]

THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT is currently constructing a war memorial in London to commemorate those Australians who fought and died alongside British servicemen in the two world wars. The design of [...]

Bold and witty, Lyons new work at Sunshine Hospital, in Melbourne's west, invites both patients and the institution to participate in the public realm. Sunshine, formerly a campus of the [...]

Museums Victoria presents the Great Hall and the new Melbourne Museum as a complementary pair. The museum is the dominant partner, bringing the buildings and gardens together as a 'visually [...]

THE FIELD OF Gold Fragments, by AIA/Burne Hocking Weimar is stage three of the Images of the West, an initiative of the Western Region Forum. Situated along the Calder Freeway [...]

The exterior of the new Online Training Centre at Victoria University's St Albans campus, by Lyons Architects, is an architectural enigma. From the road several hundred metres away at the [...]

THE VITAL LANDSCAPE NATURE AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN William Taylor. Ashgate, 2004. $124.30. In the summer of 1867, the tropical plants in the famous Palm House at [...]

AT HOME A CENTURY OF NEW ZEALAND DESIGN Douglas Lloyd Jenkins. Godwit, 2004. $65. This is a carefully researched and clearly written book. The author, Douglas Lloyd Jenkins, is a [...]

Architectural Theory Review, Vol 7 No 1 Guest edited by Gevork Hartoonian, $17.50. Architectural Theory Review is one of a number of academic journals on architecture produced in this country [...]

Jennifer Taylor. Craftsman House, $110. This book examines the remaking of Australian cities in the euphoric and optimistic post-war period. Its focus is a building type -- the office highrise [...]

Philip Drew. Inspire Press, $26.95. This elegant little book is based on a good idea: to relate the history of the Sydney Opera House as a tangle of architectural, political [...]

Charles Jancks likes Storey Hall. It gets plenty of praise in the chapter added to the second edition of his polemical book The Architecture of the Jumping Universe. It also [...]