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Friendly neighbours West Coast Eagles‘, Nic Natanui, Daniel Kerr and Dean Cox seem to enjoy their photo sessions with us dispite those macho glares. In celebration of their 25 years in the game we upped sticks and toured our studio across the road for their 2011 catalogue shoot. |
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AIA WA Chapter Awards 2011
June 22nd, 2011 by Rob Frith | Click to leave a comment » |
Around the middle of June every year the occupants of the nuthouse start sitting a little closer to the edges of their seats. It’s awards time, specifically the Australian Institute of Architects Awards time. All the buildings we’ve fallen in love with since this time last year have been judged by the peers of their creators, gowns are donned, trophies are polished and distributed. Of course a large part of the excitement for us is bathing in the reflected glory of the projects we’ve been associated with! Can we share them with you? |
| A couple of buildings garnered awards across a number of categories, The State Theatre Centre by Kerry Hill Architects (above) won the Jeffrey Howlett Award for Public Architecture as well as the Julius Elischer Award for Interior Architecture.
Paul Wellington and Elizabeth Karol picked up commendations in Residential Architecture, Mondoluce Lighting Award and Sustainability as well as an Architecture Award in Interior Architecture for their beautiful Hamersley Road, Subiaco house (below). |
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Kerry Hill also had a win in Multiple Residential with Beachside Leighton North (left). Katherine and Marco of vittinoAshe will be finding room among their knick knacks for the Iwan Iwanoff Award for Small Project Architecture (below). Watch out for this North Perth renovation in an upcoming issue of InDesign magazine. |
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Other residential projects that received an award or commendation include Hartree + Associates Architects for a dramatic home featuring cast concrete and cantilevered upper floor in Pennell Road Claremont (above);
Officer Woods’ brilliant re-interpretation of the classic West Aussie beach house in Guilderton (left and above left) and Walter Hunter and Penny Watson Architects’ wild re-model of Christian Lyon’s home in Peppermint Grove (below). |
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Phillip Griffiths Architects got a Urban Design commendation for William Street Renewal project, a part of the state government’s overhaul of the Perth Cultural Centre (left).
Taylor Robinson’s mastery of hospitality interiors had them taking home an interior architecture commendation each for Sentinel and The Boulevard (below left and below) |
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Our own tipping pool isn’t always on the money… in particular this office loved what Wayne Dufty at DNA Architects did with the Patrick Autocare logistics building out near the airport (left). DNA left empty handed, this time anyway. And of course we managed to convince ourselves that, despite some tough competition, Kerry Hill Architects were a shoe-in for the George Temple Poole for the STC. That prize was won by Hassell’s 140 William Street project. |
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Get hungry! Perth Dining in print
June 10th, 2011 by Rob Frith | Click to leave a comment »The Jet Set will have already noticed Robert’s photos of Greenhouse and Pata Negra in Qantas The Australian Way this month. Qantas’ award winning inflight magazine is running a Peter Forrestal penned piece on the current cream of Perth’s restaurants.
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Tim Winton in print
June 10th, 2011 by Rob Frith | Click to leave a comment »Rob’s portraits of Tim Winton ran in the West Weekend last Saturday. Tim’s first play, presented by Black Swan opens at the State Theatre Centre on June 25 – more here
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State Theatre Centre of WA
April 12th, 2011 by Rob Frith | Click to leave a comment »| A mind-numbingly intense start to 2011 has been offset by the great projects we’ve been involved in. New client Kerry Hill Architects kicked off our relationship with a fantastic commission, photographing the new and entirely spectacular State Theatre Centre of Western Australia. This new building is the cornerstone of the state government’s makeover of the Perth Cultural Centre precinct. Kerry with colleagues Patrick Kosky and Simon Cundy have created a bit of a Tardis on an awkward “J” shaped site that connects Roe Street with the Cultural Centre. Their masterstroke according to Phil Goldswain in the March/April 2011 edition of Architecture Australia was the stacking of the main 575 seat theatre and the smaller Studio Underground theatre one on top of the other.
The building presents beautifully from the street, that however is only the beginning of the journey. The ground floor lobby is at once cavernous and intimate. Jewel-like focus is counterpointed with grand vistas that wouldn’t be out of place in a Kubrick film. Shifting scale runs through the entire complex; the staircase to the Heath Ledger Theatre lobby stretches out forever thanks to generous landings every seven steps, once at the top a low dark ceiling gives way dramatically to a three story high void in which sits the imposing drum that houses the theatre. There’s more. Much more. More than you, dear reader, could bear to have us write about. Best thing you can do is get down there and have a look. Book a show, it really doesn’t matter which one ’cause the building could well be the main act on your first visit. |
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Spreading green goodness with Josh Byrne
December 20th, 2010 by Adrian | Click to leave a comment »| We first came across “JB” a few years back whilst working for Gardening Australia Magazine. Our work was capturing the essence of the TV pieces for the print publication. Anyone who has worked alongside a film crew will know that the photographer is way way down the food chain and must patiently wait their turn for a brief audience with the star lest they spoil any precious audio.
The work is a lot of “hurry up and wait” interspersed with short bursts of very focussed photography. The relaxed feel of these images belies the large amount of observation, foresight and planning needed to execute each one in the few minutes allowed. |
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| The success of that work led to Josh recommending Adrian to Penguin Australia when penning his first book, “The Green Gardener” now in it’s umpteenth edition. For the book, Josh laid out modern permaculture principals for a suburban residential block in a simple easy to digest literary journey interspersed, bien sur, with some rather lovely photographs to illustrate the process, results and to show examples of the sorts of plants and designs one might employ in the quest of suburban green goodness.
Over the years, we’ve all become more than just associates, hard not to with Josh’s easy going and friendly nature combined with his passion for an approach to living that we at Acorn are all in sympathy with. Nonetheless, Adrian was flattered to be asked to Photograph Josh and his partner’s wedding, what a great day! …and where else but in Josh and Kell’s thriving (even in the heat of summer) garden. Back in 2006 we photographed Josh’s mum Ros and stepfather, artist Ian de Souza’s home in Freo. If you have access to back issues check out Insite issue 10 for one of the most mind blowing properties we’ve come across, not to mention a glimpse of Ian’s bottom in his outdoor bathroom! Recently we’ve been working on timelapse movies of a project Josh’s consultancy has brained for the East Perth Redevelopment Authority; the Urban Orchard and Wetlands parts of the Perth Cultural Centre makeover. Keep an eye out for a post on that work soon. |
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Mad as Cut Snakes
December 20th, 2010 by Rob Frith | Click to leave a comment »There is always a simpler way of doing things. Sometimes it ain’t pretty but the further you are from the city, the less it seems to matter. In the “build-up” to the wet season in the Kimberley the days are long, hot and humid. Like the morning after a biggish night it’s kind of OK if you can sit still in the shade. If you have to move about to you know, work, things can get rough fast.
I just spent a couple of days following a survey crew round a mining lease somewhere between Derby and Fitzroy Crossing. At night there’s a choice between sleeping with the aircond yammering away on the wall or propping the window open with literature and fending off the odd six legged bedfellow. I have trouble sleeping with a 2hp fan in my ear.
Every bloke you talk to to refers to the next bloke as “a mad [insert choice expletive]“. Talk to enough blokes and you quickly find yourself being sucked into a vortex of madness so pervasive that it’s normal. Next thing you know you find yourself under a heavy sky watching some mad [insert choice expletive] butchering a bull carcass with a chainsaw. Suddenly you go home.
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6012.55 km
December 9th, 2010 by Rob Frith | Click to leave a comment »Most of the photos I’ve taken whilst pedalling my way round Perth this year have been of utes parked in cycle lanes and paths. A few have been of cars. I thought it might be nice to stop at my 6000th kilometre for 2010 and see what else I could come up with.
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Sneak peek at the Anna Gare Cookbook shoot
December 7th, 2010 by Rob Frith | Click to leave a comment »Yesterday was our second last day shooting food for Anna Gare’s cookbook, which will be published by Fremantle Press next year. MZ and I have been pacing our tastings v.carefully. The kitchen crew have been largely abstaining from anything but coffee and cake!
Here’s a little appetiser – watch out for the whole bookful of yumminess late 2011
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Day 3 Anna Gare cookbook shoot
November 24th, 2010 by Rob Frith | Click to leave a comment »Working with Ursula and Anna on Anna’s book this week (and a bit of next week and even a bit of the week after). Pressure’s on, shoot wraps for the day and the cooks are making a list prior to heading out for tomorrow’s supplies.
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