Welcome For Magney House Designed By Pritzker Prize Winning Architect Glenn Murcutt

The work of Judd (1997) explores how an environment is designed to enhance well-being. E.g. does the design of the building compensate for disability, maximise independence, enhance self-esteem, demonstrate care for staff, reinforce personal identity and welcome relatives and the local community?

The suburb of Pyrmont on the shores of Sydney Harbour has been transformed by the processes of urban renewal into a thriving cosmopolitan residential area, an efficient and sophisticated business centre, and a popular recreational and tourist hub. Through my own observation of the Pyrmont area, I have seen how the painstaking urban planning efforts for the area have come to fruition, and a focal point of the Harbour foreshore created as a result of this.

As Civil Architect for Sydney town, Greenway designed many Sydney buildings and monuments, some of which have become well known landmarks. Greenway’s projects that he completed wereincluded the lighthouse near South Head, the Female Factory, New Government House, the Supreme Court and many churches such as St James Church (as you can see in Figure 2). Greenway also introduced design elements that responded specifically to the harsh Australian conditions which were very different those in England. (Brash.N, 2008)

I am writing to you today to explain the habitation loss that has been occurring in Hastings point. Hastings point is a great tourist destination, due it not being full in development and it is close to the beach. Furthermore, discussions about these issues will be throughout this letter to why the council should reject from building more infrastructure, many of these reasons will be due to habitat loss.

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

Elizabeth Bay house that was built between 1835 and 1839 as the home of Alexander Macleay became one of the Australian historic houses and opened as a museum in 1977. This is a critical analysis of comparing and contrasting between the historic and contemporary design. The first object that has been chosen from Elizabeth Bay house was the ‘cabinet’ (picture 1) that was made for Alexander Macleay in the late 18th century and the second object is contemporary cabinet which is called “Delphine Cabinet” (picture 2) made by the company named Coco Republic design. In this critical analysis, firstly it will demonstrate the detail information of each item. Secondly, it will explain the significance between the two objects that related to the international design movement during their time.

Australia has a prolonged tradition in portraying and illustrating the complex and breathtaking landscape which surrounds it. The landscape representation has been extrapolated along time in different backings as painting, literature or cinema and embodies the post-colonial performances. According to the Tweed River Art Gallery (2009), Macleod is influenced and astonished by the greatness and sharpness of the Australian landmass and this is what he intends to represent in his pieces. His sources of inspiration embrace such impressive dissimilar environments as New Zealand, the central Australian desert, and Antarctica. Euan Macleod’s work suggests an utopic world where the countryside is prosperous and wealthy and the human manifestation is

The main entrance to a building creates the first impression of the whole facility. This gives the end user an overall impression of the building and what it has to offer. Once that impression is made it is hard for it to be unmade. One must continually ask how the threshold will be addressed, how will the materials be used in order to create the necessary feeling that the building needs to present to its end users.

The usage of these places allow clients to get out and spend time with fellow clients and workers, learn new skills and see new things. These places are also integral in designing and implementing interventions as before a trip, workers can discuss the sort of things they want clients to do and learn in order to make the trip memorable and worth their while. Interventions that are always in place revolve around appropriate behaviour and staying with the group, while new ones stem from the client’s person centred goal sheets and what we can do to help them achieve these goals, such as a client wishing to make new friends on the camp being paired with a buddy or doing group activities at a local

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.

In this picture, Victorian style house stands alone in the field. A railroad track cuts through the foreground. There is a bare sky behind the house with no secondary objects in the immediate surroundings of the building. this enables us to keenly focus on the articulation of the building and its relationship with its environment.

“Human houses should not be like boxes, blazing in the sun, nor should we outrage the Machine by trying to make dwelling places too complementary to Machinery. Any building for humane purposes should be an elemental, sympathetic feature of the ground, complementary to its nature-environment, belonging by kinship to the terrain.”

The entryways of the building come from four different sides and meet in the middle. The overall shape of the building creates different views and facades. The building was not created just on the looks of it; it is made up of a three dimensional, stimulating, tactile human thing.

From the rooms on the first and second floor, the views of the city can be seen as there is a small balcony for each room that open onto this narrow airwell, water feature and the old party wall where the guests can have a cup of tea or coffee enjoying the beauty of the city. With the design which has lots of open and exposed spaces as well as the floor-to-ceiling glass windows and the modern comforts and fittings, plenty of natural light can penetrate into the room although they are compact and minimalist. Each light-filled guest room has a glass-enclosed compact bathroom with the privacy is protected as those glass walls are facing the mouldy walls of the adjoining shophouse. Moreover, guests can also relax themselves and mingle on the small roof terrace upstairs with the lovely views of the historical

Centered in the house is a ramp that takes you on a journey from the underbelly of the house on the ground floor to the main body on the first floor and then on to a roof garden. Throughout the house views of the surrounding nature are framed, your mind is free marvel, as the forms evoke a sense of exploration and delight. Villa Savoye is better experienced than viewed through an image, only then can you understand the greater meaning and purpose that informs its beauty. One might argue that this is not beautiful architecture and a poor example, however upon visiting this house you cannot deny that the house is beautiful in its own right, evoking a response from the occupant. Le Corbusier’s masterpiece is moving; therefore achieving what he believed architecture to be about. This experience and the emotion that is felt can only be described in words. Shapes play a big role in the architecture but clearly the meanings behind are more important.