Linda Cheng

Jul 3, 2024 | architectureau.com | Linda Cheng

Design thinking can be as varied, nuanced and individualistic as the people it serves. In the second year of the ArchitectureAu Award for Social Impact, it was encouraging to see the impact of design continuing to be defined in different ways. The award was launched in 2023 to promote and celebrate good design for the common good.

Jul 1, 2024 | architectureau.com | Linda Cheng

The Town of Cottesloe in Western Australia has resolved not to proceed with a proposal to redevelop the heritage-listed Indiana Teahouse, designed by Woods Bagot, and a business plan put forward by Tattarang and Fiveight. The council rejected the proposal, which was first unveiled in 2021, due to its failure to align with the council’s Foreshore Masterplan by Aspect Studios, a lack of clarity around the financial impacts and risks, and uncertainly regarding the level of community benefit.

Jun 16, 2024 | architectureau.com | Linda Cheng

Madrid is unusual for a European capital city. Historically, it had no port, no cathedral, no university and no palace. Nor does it lie on a major river like other European capitals. Like Canberra, the city was chosen to be the capital because it is the geographic middle of the Iberian Peninsula. The city developed over the centuries alongside short bursts of population growth – becoming a city with a “mix of contrasting styles,” our guide Werner Durrer tells the 2024 Dulux Study Tour group.

Jun 10, 2024 | architectureau.com | Linda Cheng

“Berlin is a city of many cities,” architect Hans Schneider, a partner at the J. Mayer H und Partner, told the winners of the 2024 Australian Institute of Architects Dulux Study Tour on their visit to his studio in the Berlin neighbourhood of Charlottenburg. “There is not one Berlin style.” The city’s architecture stands as a testament to the city’s tumultuous history, reflecting periods of prosperity, division and reunification.

Jun 5, 2024 | architectureau.com | Linda Cheng

When Riken Yamamoto received the 2024 Pritzker Prize, he became the ninth Japanese architect to be awarded architecture’s highest honour. Japan has now produced one-fifth of all recipients in the 45-year history of the prize. Tokyo, especially, wears its Pritzker associated architecture like jewels adorning the urban fabric of the city. The ultra-luxury shopping street in Omotesando is full of works by Japanese and foreign Pritzker-winning architects.