Adair Winder

Melbourne

Journalist with the Riverine Herald in Echuca Moama. Radio presenter with Echuca Moama’s community radio station 104.7 EMFM.

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Articles

Architects awarded 2025 Marten Bequest Scholarships

3 weeks ago | architectureau.com | Adair Winder

Two Australian architects have been announced as recipients of the 2025 Marten Bequest Scholarship, a program that supports young artists to undertake research in their field of expertise through interstate and international travel. Architects Nicole Larkin from New South Wales and Lauren Crockett from Victoria, along with five professionals from other creative disciplines, have been awarded travelling scholarships worth $50,000 each.
Marina Tabassum's kinetic 2025 Serpentine Pavilion opens

3 weeks ago | architectureau.com | Adair Winder

The 2025 Serpentine Pavilion, designed by Bangladeshi architect and educator Marina Tabassum and her firm Marina Tabassum Architects, opens to the public on 6 June. The pavilion, titled A Capsule in Time, is located at the Serpentine South Gallery in London. Inspired by an arched garden canopy, the pavilion’s form resembles a capsule with its mass divided into four portions and an open-air courtyard positioned at the centre.
Revised plans filed for final stage of Melbourne's Jam Factory redevelopment

3 weeks ago | architectureau.com | Adair Winder

Updated plans for the third and final stage of the Melbourne Jam Factory precinct redevelopment have been lodged. Built in 1858, the Jam Factory was first established as a brewery, later becoming a factory for producing preserves and jams, before eventually evolving to become a retail and cinema precinct in the 1990s. Now, the factory site is set to be transformed once again into a mixed-use hub with retail, residential, accommodation and hospitality offerings.
Kanooka House by Knight Office and Dan Wilson

4 weeks ago | architectureau.com | Adair Winder

Trust was an essential ingredient in bringing Kanooka House by Knight Office and Dan Wilson to life. Like many projects conceived during the height of the pandemic, the project was subjected to unexpected design changes and pivots that are not always easy for clients to accept. By meeting these changes with trust, the clients granted the architects the freedom to respond to challenges creatively, resulting in a thoughtfully resolved and flexible home.
Composed in contrasts: 2025 Dulux Study Tour, Barcelona

1 month ago | architectureau.com | Adair Winder

“Barcelona is full of imperfections,” architect and CEO of Guiding Architects Barcelona Lorenzo Kárász told the winners of the 2025 Australian Institute of Architects Dulux Study Tour during a cycling tour of the city. Kárász was quick to emphasise that the city’s beauty lies not in perfection, symmetry nor stylistic harmony, but in the complex layering of styles, ideas and histories embedded within the built environment.
Stacking the city: 2025 Dulux Study Tour, Amsterdam and Rotterdam

1 month ago | architectureau.com | Adair Winder

Australia and the Netherlands are both facing housing crises, but for opposite reasons. In Australia, urban sprawl is a key challenge, while in the Netherlands, the issue comes down to a shortage of available land. Despite these contrasting conditions, both countries share a need for urban densification.
Pursuit of happiness: 2025 Dulux Study Tour, Copenhagen

1 month ago | architectureau.com | Adair Winder

When it comes to contemporary architecture in Copenhagen, everything starts and ends with the city as an instrument for a better quality of life. During the first leg of the Dulux Study Tour 2025, much of the discussion between the winners consistently circled back to the very Danish idea that architecture must return to the public what it takes, offering value in exchange for space and presence.
Rosebery Engine Yards by Group GSA

1 month ago | architectureau.com | Adair Winder

Projects like the Rosebery Engine Yards offer hope and optimism for neglected buildings during a time when the utilisation of space, particularly in urban settings, is constantly debated. The urban regeneration project involved the $60.3 million adaptive reuse and reactivation of a vacant 1.9-hectare industrial site at 115–151 Dunning Avenue into a retail and lifestyle precinct.
Feedback sought for stage one of UNSW Canberra City campus

1 month ago | architectureau.com | Adair Winder

The National Capital Authority is inviting feedback on the first stage of the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Canberra City Masterplan. The overarching masterplan, prepared by MGS Architects, Snøhetta and Turf Design Studio, proposes the staged development of a new UNSW campus in Canberra’s CBD – in what will be the tertiary institution’s second campus in the territory. The Australian Capital Territory government approved the masterplan for the campus in April 2023.
Hobart's vacant Conservatorium of Music approved for redevelopment

2 months ago | architectureau.com | Adair Winder

The Hobart City Council has approved a development application that proposes the redevelopment of the disused University of Tasmania Conservatorium of Music building on Sandy Bay Road into short-stay accommodation. The Conservatorium of Music building, located at 5–7 Sandy Bay Road, has remained unoccupied for several years after being acquired by the Fragrance Group from the University of Tasmania in 2017.