This looks handy. This fine pile of PDF guides to the work of some of Auckland’s top architects originally appeared in NZIA’s BLOCK publication. They are rather well written by the likes of Andrew Barrie and Julia Gatley. The growing list includes tours for:
Sean Pickersgill’s 2002 review of Ashton Raggat McDougall + Phillips/Pilkington’s Marion Cultural Centre in South Australia.
An ABC TV production in 2000 that surveyed contemporary architects and architecture. The site contains a few slideshows an illustrated transcipts.
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Melbourne
an 2000 olympics-timed photo tour of contemporary australian architecture – with pictures from George Michell and John Gollings book “New Australian Style”.
“The purpose of ARC•PEACE is to be the global network of architects, design and planners committed to building in a socially responsible way a peaceful, just and an environmentally sustainable future.”
Zoomable scans of the first few issues of Post are free to view. Post reckons it’s an accessible student-intiated mag that’s definitely not your conventional archijournal.
Government website containing all the state’s planning schemes and zoning maps (all PDF). Seems to work better in Internet Explorer.
transcripts from the ABC’s 2000 television series… with photos and slide shows.
Newly rebranded, we’ve now lost the ‘Royal’.
RMIT’s respected but long out of print guide to Melbourne architecture – well stocked with maps, photos and profiles. 2008: It’s ageing a bit now, being about 1998 vintage. In fact the main interface doesn’t seem to want to work any more, but the A3 Lite version is functional.
There are rumours of any update any year now..
101 architects – Wallpaper* magazine has determined (by some secret* stylish method) just who the most exciting 101 architects on the planet are. Australia nets 4 most exciting architects, New Zealand unfortunately doesn’t even appear on the exciting architect map.
WALLPAPER* 101 (fully flash)
The owners of 666 Riversdale Road (Robin Boyd House 1) has a website explaining their points of view.
Stuart Harrison, Simon Knott, and Christine Phillips brought Melbourne a weekly dose of architecture on the radio from 2004 to 2014, with a few more recent episodes.
Rory Hyde’s flickr photo sets of Melbourne architecture (and beyond). Plenty of McBride Charles Ryan houses and Paul Morgan’s Cape Schanck house. [via super colossal ]
A large visual database of Melbourne’s finest CBD buildings, many demolished. The site also has a lively forum about Melbourne’s architecture.
This much-improved site focusses on 20th Century deco and modern buildings around Sydney. Lots of photos and links and a series of walks.