HIGH PRAISE FOR MUSIC BOWL DESIGN
Architects:- Yuncken, Freeman Bros., Griffiths and Simpson (Melbourne).
"A
new concept of enclosing space".
A firm of Australian architects has The jury said: "In the dramatic into pleasing equilibrium to produce been awarded a $25,000 international structure selected, aluminium is not a protected amphitheatre for a vast
used as an ornament but as an intrin- audience. sic element of shelter and acoustic re-
"The structure creates a form de- inforcement.
signed to bring the sound and sight "It is functional, beautiful and of a musical performance not only to dignified.
prize for its design of the Sidney Myer Music Bowl, which was recently opened in Melbourne.
The American Institute of Architects, which announced the award, said the music bowl was "a new concept of enclosing space which should have a great influence on the architecture of
our time.'
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The prize
the R.S. Reynolds Memorial Award went to the firm of Yuncken, Freeman Brothers, Grif- fiths and Simpson of Melbourne. Mr. Barry B. Patten, 31, was named as the member of the firm most respon- sible for the design.
The award, made annually for the design of a significant work in which. aluminium is an important contribut- ing factor, was placed after the A.I.A. jury had considered 52 entries from the United States and 11 from other
countries.
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Architects in Singapore and in the Far East generally are awaiting details of a world-wide competition which the City Council of Darwin, Australia, is to promote for the design of its new
civic centre.
The Mayor of Darwin, Mr. N.H. Cooper, hopes to attract designs from some of the world's best architects.
The centre, which will cost about $5 million, will be built on three acres of land on the esplanade overlooking
the Darwin harbour.
2,000 people seated under the alumi- nium roof but to 20,000 others seated
on the lawn under the sky.
"The Myer Music Bowl is a simple solution of a project needed by every community in the world: a building used by the people, semi-enclosed and designed to improve culture.'
The Bowl was a gift to the city of Melbourne from the Sidney Myer Charitable Trust. The late Sidney Myer was a Melbourne depart- ment store magnate.
Supported by a 568-ft., 40 tons cable stretching over two 70 ft. high steel and fibreglass masts, the canopy of the bowl is constructed of alumi- nium-covered ply-wood sheets bolted
"In essence, the bowl is an acre- size umbrella - artistically, techno- logically conceived as semi-outdoor space in which the forces of science, art and economy have been brought to steel guy wires.
THE HONG KONG & FAR EAST BUILDER
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