News + Events 29th February 2012

BARC CLUB
1st Thursday every month @ The Crown & Anchor Hotel Balcony, 6pm.
www.barcclub.com

• Welcoming our new Associate Professor of Architecture at UniSA, Dr.Thomas Mical – he will give a talk on surrealism and architecture

FRIDAY 09th of March, 2012

Talk: 6pm—7pm + Questions: 7—730ish

Allan Scott Auditorium, H2—16, City West Campus, The University of South Australia

• Stirring the Possum – The Age of Humans

Tuesday, March 13, 2012 from 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM

The Sanctuary, Adelaide Zoo

RSVP at:  http://ageofhumans.eventbrite.com/

• Adelaide’s digital artist Emma Rhys will present at the DIA SA Branch’s first breakfast for 2012

Tickets available at www.trybooking.com/dec

See Emma’s work at www.emmarhys.com

• PIA SA have their Four Seasons Summer Seminar on Thursday, 15 March 2012, all day  entitled; Environmental Planning – Mean, Lean & Green?

http://www.planning.org.au/events/category/all-sa-events-by-date

• Sustainability: what it can mean for people in communities

Speaker: Professor Peter Newman

Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University of Technology

7.30pm Wednesday 18 April 2012

Burnside Community Centre Hall

cnr Portrush Rd & Greenhill Rd, Burnside 5066

www.sustainablecommunitiessa.eventbrite.com

• The 2012 PIA National Congress is on in Adelaide from the 29th of April until the 2nd of May.

http://www.piacongress.com/

• Call for Entries for the Australian Timber Design Awards:

www.timberawards.com.au

• PLACE 2012 Identity Design Competition:

The PLACE 2012 organising committee invites you to create a visual identity for the PLACE 2012 initiative. If you win this competition your work will be featured in promotional material for PLACE 2012 throughout South Australia and you will receive $1000 in prize money. For details on the background, brief, entry form and basic text based logo contact Trish Hansen/ Arts SA, Manager Public Art & Design/ e: Hansen.Trish@dpc.sa.gov.au

 All submissions must be sent/ delivered to the Australian Institute of Architects – SA Chapter 100 Flinders Street, Adelaide on either CD or USB and with the accompanying entry form by 5pm on Friday 16th March 2012.

• DPTI Announces Community Grants for small scale projects that reduce car use

http://www.dpti.sa.gov.au/communityprograms/community_grants

NEWS

• Wang Shu of China was announced The 2012 Pritzker Prize winner

This is a coup for Australian architecture as Wang Shu is the keynote speaker at experience, the National Architecture Conference to be held in Brisbane from May 10-12.
https://www.architecture.com.au/i-cms?page=1.64.34.15164.22966

• Team Collaborative Future was announced the winner of the zero Carbon Challenge today….“At a cost of around $335,000 (excluding GST), a 7.5 star rating, net zero operational energy and a 16- week construction time, the home that Team Collaborative Future has designed ticks a lot of boxes and is a worthy winner,” Minister Conlon said…….

• The controversial Mt Barker Development is in the news again over the past two days….

a couple of  articles in the ‘Tiser by Miles Kemp  state that…… documents released by the District Court reveal developers branded the views of Mt Barker residents and the local council “parochial, conservative and emotional” when they sought special Ministerial approval to bypass community concerns and speed up the rezoning.

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/how-developers-gagged-a-frustrated-mt-barker/story-e6frea83-1226283283093

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/real-estate/news/push-to-rethink-mt-barker-plan/story-e6frefgc-1226284513827

• Developers, architect tell how to build to a slicker Adelaide

HOW do we bring vibrancy to Adelaide’s CBD? Amy Noonan and Tessa Akerman of the ‘Tiser interview five developers and an architect for their views on our future…..

 http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/real-estate/developers-architect-tell-how-to-build-to-a-slicker-adelaide/story-e6frefdc-1226283302382

• LEGISLATION to protect Arkaroola from mining has passed Parliament’s Upper House.

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/arkaroola-bill-passes-upper-house/story-e6frea83-1226284516340