Innehållsförteckning för Issue 74 March 2021 från Artichoke

Our education spaces have experienced enormous disruption in the past decade, from changing student behaviour, technology and teaching methods to, more recently, empty classrooms while students (and parents) homeschooled during the pandemic. The environments in which our young people learn have a great impact on the type of individuals and thinkers they become. At Ravenswood Senior Learning Centre (page 58), BVN has designed a “home” for the senior students, where they can feel a personal connection to their school. It’s a place for the students to make a cup of tea, chat with their peers and study after hours. As part of evolving teaching philosophies at the school, the centre was designed to be flexible enough to accommodate traditional stand-and-deliver models as well as recent – and future – styles…

Brisbane’s iconic Howard Smith Wharves precinct is one of the city’s most competitive strips for hospitality. Set amongst the riverside, offering killer views and a vibrant energy fuelled by a continuous flow of patrons, the precinct offers a prime location that requires clever design thinking to create an enticing and memorable dining experience. Yoko – George Livissianis’s second venture at the wharves with long-time friend and client Jonathan Barthelmess – does exactly this. Howard Smith Wharves has a prominent maritime history in Brisbane. The shed that is home to Yoko was built underneath and alongside the construction of the Story Bridge in the 1930s. The building has a troubled past, withstanding World War II, and the Brisbane floods of 1974 and 2011. From 1960, the space remained mostly vacant until…

Heads Up lounge chair from Blu Dot Heads Up is Blu Dot’s modern interpretation of the classic wingback chair. The designers’ goal was to create a quiet space to get away. Two petal-like structures come together to form the chair’s sheltering back and ample seat, which rest atop a solid wooden base, or a metal swivel base for added fun. An upholstered, molded ply back turns out gently curved sides and all kinds of comfort to create a sophisticated sanctuary. Blu Dot — bludot.com.au Kiik modular seating by Arper Kiik by Arper is a highly configurable modular collection based on designer Ichiro Iwasaki’s observations of the way people communicate and occupy space, whether alone or in groups. The modular system allows for a wide range of positions within a single…

Ravenswood is a girls’ school on Sydney’s Upper North Shore, in a leafy, tree-lined suburb of grand old homes. It was always recognizable from the adjacent Pacific Highway (a progressively widened residential main street) by its large, lush oval, beyond which sat solid 1960s–1980s red-brown brick classroom blocks, plus a few school-occupied cottages. These buildings, distant and remote, exuded the solidity and reliability of a dependable North Shore private school. But things have rather changed with BVN’s involvement in the school’s projects over the last decade. BVN won the competition for the Mabel Fidler Building more than a decade ago, but on engaging with the masterplan at briefing stage, agreed that the main entry to the school should be pulled from the Pacific Highway toward the quieter rear of the…

Leanne Amodeo is an editor, writer and media consultant. A former editor of Monument and Inside magazines, she currently consults on communications, strategy and content, and contributes to architecture, design and visual arts publications internationally. Profile: Elliot Bastianon (page 81) Michelle Bailey is an architecture and design writer based in Brisbane. Since her move from architectural practice to architectural writing six years ago, she has visited almost 200 projects in Queensland and has written about these for magazines such as Artichoke and Houses. Bauhaus Now (page 106) Marcus Baumgart is a designer and writer, and a founding director of Baumgart Clark Architects with long-time collaborator John A. Clark. You can read about their adventures at www.help.design. Monash University Building 28 (page 50) Georgia Birks is associate editor at Architecture Media…

Caves are thought by some to have been the first designed interiors, representing sites of liminal shelter and material transformation. When Hana Hakim, director of interior design practice The Stella Collective, made her first site visit to Liminal, a hospitality project commissioned by Melbourne restaurateurs The Mulberry Group, she was struck by its cavernous volume; it was an inhospitable space for hospitality. “The Stella Collective is always about reflecting and harnessing the light and using finishes to reflect heavenly spaces that are open and voluminous. Now we are stuck in a cave, so I am going to have to find a way to make people feel safe, loved, happy and excited,” says Hakim. The atmosphere Hakim describes was due to the relatively low ceilings and long, shallow floor area, which…

Bookshop By Uro by Architecture Architecture ◥ At Bookshop by Uro, it’s all about architecture and design, so it was important that the shop reflected that ethos. Like many of the shopfronts at the newly minted Collingwood Yards in Melbourne, elegant steel windows set the scene. Taking that cue, Architecture Architecture installed a steel display shelf, delicately suspended from the window frame, cut, folded and angled into position to catch the curious eye. Inside, mirrored surfaces, generous windows and a high ceiling lend an airiness to the space, which basks in abundant natural light throughout the day. A long timber bench and a concrete planter invite the browsing reader to stay for a while. The books are largely front-facing for optimal cover-judgement and accessibility. Cantilevered shelves sweep along two lengths…

Three Blue Ducks by Pattern Studio Australian hospitality group Three Blue Ducks has opened its latest venue in a somewhat unexpected location – a surf park in the Melbourne suburb of Tullamarine. Sydney-based Pattern Studio, who designed spaces elsewhere throughout the Urbnsurf precinct, have crafted a sophisticated poolside haven for park-goers and foodies alike. Housed in an industrial shell, the restaurant’s interiors draw influence from global surf meccas, celebrating natural textures and tactile materiality. The design’s marriage of industrial minimalism and bohemian cool results in a commercial space with more soulful character than your average recreational facility. The 400-seater restaurant is situated poolside, overlooking a sparkling two-hectare lagoon. Critical to the design was ensuring that carefully framed vistas across the water remain unobstructed. The expansive outdoor dining areas offer variety…

“Melbourne’s largest dance palais” this building’s exterior once declared, and it was, by all accounts, the place to be in 1920s Melbourne. For almost six decades, the site in Greville Street, Prahran was the home of Leggett’s Ballroom, where people from all social strata came to drink and dance and make the most of the night-time hours. While a fire in 1976 drew Leggett’s to a close, skip forward a couple of decades and the site reclaimed its title as a pillar of Melbourne’s nightlife. As The Continental Cafe, it was an acclaimed venue for live music throughout the 90s. In the 2000s, the site’s third chapter saw it pivot from live music to nightclub – Boutique, on the building’s upper floor, drew cool kids from Prahran and further afield…

Kennedy Nolan has created a “silk purse out of a sow’s ear,” to quote Patrick Kennedy, in its creation of a new student haven at the Clayton Campus of Monash University. Primarily a space for students of the mathematics, earth atmospheres and environments disciplines, this new student hub has been fashioned to create a safe space specific to the learning and gathering needs of this particular student cohort. This project is a celebration and exploration of several things at once, unified into a seamless experience. There is the architect’s embrace of the late mid-century modernist moment, so typical of Australian universities with its chocolate brown brick and cream concrete lintels. This frame-and-infill architecture, emblematic of its period, has not been fought against by the design team. The articulation pattern of…

Hairdressers are often at the cutting edge of hair styles and trends, yet the design of their salons is often not. Studio Snoop’s makeover of Headcase Hair in Paddington, Sydney, has transformed it from stock standard to fashion forward. With earthy, natural and Mediterranean-inspired colours and materials, Headcase Hair is a layered and textured space with a calm and refreshing spa-like feel. Headcase Hair has been a mainstay in Paddington since it opened in 1997. Twenty-three years on, founders John Pulitano and Vincent Nobile wanted to redesign the salon to reflect their brand and experience as hairdressers: the fashion shows, photo-shoots, cities and health retreats in France, Italy, Mexico and Spain that have inspired them over the last two decades. They engaged Studio Snoop, led by designer Amanda Talbot. Having…