Our urban sketching group met today to sketch at the Shine Dome, home of the Australian Academy of Science and one of the modernist masterpieces of this country. Designed by Roy Grounds and completed in 1958, the building is often referred to by it’s nickname as the ‘Martian Embassy ‘.
Behind the Shine Dome is a more recent edition to the Canberra skyline. The Nishi Building, 2015, with it’s green wall, includes offices and commercial space and incorporates, on the right, Hotel Hotel. This complex was designed by Fender Katsiladis Architects and March Studio, and landscape architects Oculus.
Watercolour, pencil
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This is great Leonie! Amazing architecture
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Thanks. I love this building and we now have a fantastic promoter of our local architecture in Darren Bradley. This link goes to his TEDX talk he gave a few weeks ago. We are on the brink of losing amazing buildings ( not this one), because people think they are really uninteresting. Duh! https://designcanberrafestival.com.au/news-item/uncovering-canberras-modernist-soul-darren-bradley/
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Great talk! I don’t think people generally think about their surroundings. I’m mortified as an area I’ve been drawing on here for some time has now become a car park. It also annoys me that people who ‘love history’ and ‘old buildings’ can’t see that history goes right up to the present moment and we need to value and respect the recent history too!
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There are some really interesting and quite radical buildings in Canberra – this is a great example! Nice sketch.
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Thanks Anna. We are actively trying to get out and sketch as many of them as we can.
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