Edition 118
Sep 2014
- Outpost 742713 9
- St Peters Lutheran College Performing Arts Centre
- Byron Hinterland Residence
- Cloud Canopy
- Regional Community Health Hub Building, Deakin University
- Commonwealth Park Multi-Purpose Structure
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Welcome to STEEL PROFILE® 118
We are, as always, proud to bring you a profile of the country's most remarkable steel buildings and glimpses into the inspired minds responsible for them.
BlueScope has launched a new website that features additional content to that found here in print. For the past few issues we have alerted readers about the presence of videos in which architects and other contributors further discuss their projects. In this issue, new icons on the pages indicate extra design resources for BlueScope's customer profiles.
One project bearing such icons adorns our cover. Drew Heath's design for a modest bush retreat tempers the brutality of steel shipping containers with a graceful roof canopy.
We were also lucky enough to catch up with British 'starchitect' David Adjaye at the Australian Institute of Architect's National Conference in Perth and discussed his obsession with metal's elemental qualities.
We trust you will find both the print and online mediums enjoyable and useful.
Kristin Camery
BlueScope Editor
BlueScope Editor
Kristen Camery
Managing Editor
Associate Editor
Contributing Writers
Rachael Bernstone, Peter Hyatt, John de Manincor, Micky Pinkerton, Alex Taylor
Contributing Photographers
Peter Bennetts, Brett Boardman, Paul Bradshaw, Scott Burrows, Peter Hyatt, Sarah Louise, Trevor Mein
Art Director
STEEL PROFILE® has established an Editorial Advisory Panel to ensure that only projects of the highest calibre are selected for publication. The panellists are
Adam Haddow
Adam is a director of SJB Architects NSW. He was awarded the 40th Anniversary Churchill Fellowship in 2006 to study alternatives to conventional models of urban design. SJB Architects recently won two Australian Institute of Architects NSW Awards for Multiple Housing.
More than anything, he loves to design buildings.
Frank Stanisic
Stanisic Associates founder Frank Stanisic is a Sydney-based architect and urbanist.
His work is fuelled by an evolving interest in the diagram and frame as a basis for architectural invention, and the aesthetics of permeability.
Frank's projects have won numerous awards including Australian Institute of Architects' Special Jury, Wilkinson, Aaron Bolot and Frederick Romberg.
Sam Bresnehan
Sam Bresnehan is a graduate architect with Melbourne-based architectural and urban design practice, McGauran Giannini Soon Architects (MGS).
Graduating from the University of Tasmania with a Master of Architecture (First Class Honours) in 2010, Sam was awarded the 2011 BlueScope Steel Glenn Murcutt Student Prize.
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