Similarities Between Elizabeth Bay House And Alexander Macleay

In this essay the architect and or designer I will be writing about is Eileen Gray. The main aspects that will be discussed are her approach to design and her philosophies related to it, how she uses form, ornamentation, structure and materials in regards to her furniture and architectural designs. Also considered will be how she uses spacial organisation within her buildings, the use of light and the minimalistic style she so favoured for her buildings designs. The following designs will be mentioned briefly, discussed in detail and analysed in this essay: the bibendum chair, the Lotus Table, apartment E-1027, the E-1027 table and Tempe à Pailla.

This essay will discuss Donovan Hill’s Queensland State Library; it’s relationship to their architectural style and its involvement with the community by using diagrams and discussion. Donovan Hill is a Brisbane based firm established in 1992. Their style highlights the value in creating smaller individual experiences throughout the spatial programming whilst also not being governed by climate but using it to their advantage. Donovan Hill is well known for their design of the outdoor room in C-House and this design is precedent for spaces in the Queensland State Library. Donovan Hill follows the International Style and address the three principals outlined by Hitchcock and Johnson in their book The International Style. They find balance

The Museum is an interactive, hands-on, appropriate environment to introduce young children to the early history of Australia. The Museum offers guided educational school programs, risk assessment documents for children’s safety (Sydney Living Museum, 2017b). Whilst no disability access available to the upper levels the ground level offers ample opportunities for children to view and handle artefacts of the early inhabitant of the barracks for a more meaningful understanding of Australia’s beginning (ACARA, 2017b, ACHASSK013; NESA, n.d.b, ACHHK044). Educational Interactive booklets are available which educator can modify to accommodate for younger children. Educators can take ideas from the activity booklets and make their own book with visual to encourage children to investigate and engage in what the museum has to offer and to branch off into other areas of learning such as mathematics looking at shapes (see figure 25), (DWEER, 2009, pp.

Elsie de Wolfe designed during the Victorian movement, however “had adopted the 1890’s preference for Neoclassicism” (Smith, 22). Unlike the cluttered and dark interiors of an average Victorian interior, her interiors were, “in the words of one visitor, ‘[models] of simplicity’” (Smith, 20). She redecorated the once cluttered dining room of her apartment in the

On the Thursday 1st of October 1863 the 'Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser', re-published an article from the ‘Yass Courier’, once again in regards to the burning of John O’Meally’s families homestead and public house, conducted arbitrarily by the NSW Police. However, in what could only be described as sympathetic comment from this particular correspondent writing from the ‘Yass Courier’, who furthermore, may also be the same gentleman who wrote the earlier article on Ben Hall’s path to bushranging, and of Hall’s current notoriety, again broached the subject of the burning of Hall’s former home in the article, however, it must be remembered that Ben Hall no longer held any equity in the Sandy Creek property, as ownership was relinquished after September of 1862.

Throughout this essay I will explore to what extent Inigo Jones’s design for the Queens House was inspired by the works of Palladio and Palladian architecture and 15-16th century European architectural precedents, while also exploring the role the building played on the development of Neoclassical architecture on a wider scale. The Queens House represents the stylistic point of origin for the great imposing buildings surrounding Greenwich but also for Neo-Classical architecture in Britain more generally. The formative years of the designer, Inigo Jones (1573-1652) is largely unknown although its believed he trained as a joiner and received no formal architectural education. Its documented that in the year 1597 he visited Italy several

Australia is one of the continents over the world. The vast, varied land and the culture in this abundant place has a deep and lasting impact to the architectural design traditions—Tectonic. Tectonic can be regarded as one distinctive characteristic which is relating to building or architectural construction. It also gives ability for people to read a structure, or see how a structure was put together. Among those architects who had used this tradition in their designs, Donovan Hill and Glenn Murcutt, as Australian architectures, have their own style relates to tectonic. For example, Donovan Hill composes different materials and layered against with one another in D House, while Murcutt establishes a harmonious connection to the surrounding landscape and local climate with Magney House.

Situated on the second floor of the Rhode Island School of Design Museum in the Paula and Leonard Granoff Gallery sits a desk—but no ordinary desk. This desk is the Lady’s Writing Table and Chair designed by William Christman Codman in 1903 as part of the Gorham manufacturing company. The table and chair are elevated on a white platform and located in front of a stained glass window which radiates a diffused light upon the surface of the set. Furthermore, it is placed underneath a grand oil painting of a woman in a dress gazing downwards—as if longing to own it. Even without the surroundings, which clearly promotes the piece’s importance, the Lady’s Writing Table and Chair in itself is able to emulate an enormous amount of grandeur due to the

The aim of this chapter is to prove that the Queen Victoria Building constitute a witness of both tradition and modernity concepts, and that its history, architecture and display are all related through time. All of these

The new buildings are a new architectural layer on the site, designed to emphasize the original 1850s constructions. The new building design developed from the symmetry of the original site although rather than following the centralized geometrical structures used in the 1850s, a new asymmetry was created based on the position of the northern entry to the Macquarie street Mint offices. These new structures are clearly distinguished from the older materials, yet they complement the geometric arrangements of the older, existing

Old Parliament House was once the home of Australia’s Federal Parliament from 1927 all the way to 1988. During this period of time, many great changes took place in the Australian social and political life. This is the building in which democracy has had its growth in Australia. The building was designed by John Smith Murdoch the very first Commonwealth government architect. He was asked to design a building needed to serve as a parliament for about 50 years. Since the building was finished the Australian capital city has been growing ever since. The need for a national capital arose when the Australian colonies united to form the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901. Parliament House was like town inside a city. It had its very own library, post

Glenn Marcus Murcutt was born in London on 25th July 1936 to Australian parents, however, he grew up in Papua New Guinea as his father found great success as a gold prospector there. Murcutt lived in New Guinea for the first 5 years of his life. His house was designed and built by his father, who was Murcutt’s main authoritative influence for his career. Murcutt described his father as “an amazing man in most ways. Very determined, he was the driving forces in the family. He was very, very instructive all the time. Could never get away from him”. The design of the house, and other buildings built by his father later informed and motivated many of Murcutt’s choices as an architect himself.

Architecture is the creation of buildings. As time goes by, some of them will get torn down and some of them will be abandoned by the public. However, they all have life and stories behind. They are designed and built by a group of architects who devote their time and effort into the creation. Every building matters, especially those that have significance in history. When those buildings are abandoned, it is important and highly necessary to reinvigorate the building, either with a different function or maintain its original function, as long as the use of historic buildings is being inherited. This project is a case study that analyzes the transformation of a historic heritage, Finger Wharf, in Sydney, Australia. It will cover the strategies and design ideas when transforming the wharf to a hotel. In a broader sense, this is the analysis of the interior reinvigoration of a historically important site.

Joseph Reed was one of the Melbourne’s leading architects for three decades; design more notable buildings than any of his rivals and winning the biggest and the best contracts. As xxx said, It was through them that he came to dominate the architectural scene with projects. Reed travelled overseas in the 1860s, and after this it seems the variety and character of his designs changed. Among the changes was Reed’s enthusiasm for different coloured brickwork

In relation to this the book ’Le Corbusier ‘by Kenneth Frampton (British architect, critic and historian, born: 20/11/1930) also holds a link within some of the opinions, movements and beliefs of Le Corbusier. Focusing from the early stages of Corbusier’s life to his last works, we find ourselves indulging in facts and creations of Corbusier himself such as the Dom-ino. As featured in the previous reading ‘towards a new architecture’ Corbusier talks about the engineers aesthetic ‘two things that march together and follow one from the other one at its full height, the other in an unhappy state of retrogression’. After some research in to this I was lead to the dom-ino design (image above). The dom –ino was an early example of the engineers aesthetic and became the theoretical basis of most of Corbusiers houses up to 1935 and extended on a scale much larger than the two story house. The dom-ino led to a number of prototype buildings such as the United De Habitation. The design allows the concept of the free facade, The pieces were to be pre-fabricated allowing the construction time of the design to be reduced and thereby a product of Corbusier’s application of