Australia and Venice: disturbing similarities, provocations and new ideas meet in the hypertechnological Australian Pavilion at the next Venice Architecture Biennale. [it] Australia e Venezia: inquietanti similitudini, nuove idee e provocazioni si incontrano nell'ipertecnologico padiglione australiano alla prossima Biennale di Architettura a Venezia. txt: RPT-Australian cities must transform for population growth www.reuters.com
Australia circa 2050, population 35 million, climate change induced rising sea levels have flooded the Gold Coast resort region, apartment blocks are now used to grow food and people commute in monorail pods above the sea. In another city, Australians live on floating island pods with apartments both below and above sea level, the population has shifted from land to the sea because of the sky-rocketing value of disappearing arable land. Climate change has also forced many Australians to move inland and create new cities in the outback, relying on solar power to exist in the inhospitable interior. These are just a few urban scenarios by some of Australia's leading architects shortlisted for "Ideas for Australian Cities 2050+" to be staged at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale.
NOW + WHEN Australian Urbanism - Sydney 2050: Fraying Ground, RAG URBANISM, Richard Goodwin (Richard Goodwin Art/Architecture), Andrew Benjamin, Gerard Reinmuth (TERRIOR) - Symbiotic City, Steve Whitford (University of Melbourne, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning) + James Brearley (BAU Brearley Architects and Urbanists, Adjunct Professor RMIT) - The Fear Free City, Justyna Karakiewicz, Tom Kvan and Steve Hatzellis - A City of Hope, EDMOND & CORRIGAN, Design - Peter Corrigan (everything), Realisation - Michael Spooner (and support) - Mould City, Colony Collective, Madeleine Beech, Jono Brener, Nicola Dovey, Peter Raisbeck and Simon Wollan - Sedimentary City (.pdf), Brit Andresen and Mara Francis - Aquatown, NH Architecture with Andrew Mackenzie - Multiplicity, John Wardle Architects & Stefano Boscutti - Ocean City, Arup Biomimetics, Alanna Howe, Alexander Hespe - -41 + 41, Peck Dunin Simpson Architects, Fiona Dunin, Alex Peck, Andrew Simpsons in association with Martina Johnson, Third Skin, Eckersley Garden Architecture, Angus McIntyre, Tim Kreger - Survival vs Resilience, BKK Architects (Tim Black, Julian Kosloff, Simon Knott, George Huon, Julian Faelli, Madeleine Beech, Jane Caught and Steffan Heath) Village Well, Charter Cramer and Daniel Piker - Terra Form Australis, HASSELL, Holopoint & The Environment Institute, Tim Horton, Tony Grist, Prof Mike Young, Ben Kilsby, Sharon Mackay, Susie Nicolai, Mike Mouritz - Island Proposition 2100 (IP2100), Scott Lloyd, Aaron Roberts (room11) and Katrina Stoll - Implementing the Rhetoric, Harrison and White with Nano Langenheim, Marcus White, Stuart Harrison and Nano Lagenheim - How Does it Make You Feel (HDIMYF), Ben Statkus (Statkus Architecture), Daniel Agdag, Melanie Etchell, William Golding, Anna Nguyen, Joel Ng - Loop-Pool / Saturation City, McGauran Giannini Soon (MGS), Bild + Dyskors, Material Thnking, MGS - Eli Giannini, Jocelyn Chiew, Catherine Ranger, Bild - Ben Milbourne, Dyskors - Edmund Carter, Material Thinking - Paul Carter - a tale of two cities, Billard Leece Partnership Pty Ltd Commissioner: Janet Holmes à Court Curators: John Gollings, Ivan Rijavec. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini links: Architects plan for a crowded Australia www.theage.com.au australian pavilion at venice architecture biennale 2010 www.designboom.com