What’s Up #22: mARch Studio

Australia may not be as ‘world-renowned’ for it’s innovative architecture as some countries, yet it is in it’s capital cities, like Melbourne and Sydney, where you find rare examples of architectural prowess and derring-do unseen anywhere else on the globe. Not to mention innovations being made in the name of green and sustainable architecture. One Melbourne-based practise that worth watching is mARch Studio [marchstudio.com.au]. Their jigsaw puzzle interior for a bar called Dusk using ‘found objects’ as it’s main theme, has already started winning awards. Other projects that are equally exciting include a full scale traditional Chinese Pavilion constructed entirely out of cardboard for children to scribbble on, following on from similar project involving a Parisian Apartment (shown above) launched late 2006 [marchstudio.com.au/penplanparis] and an a-typical Australian homestead that has been stripped back to it’s bare necessities with the addition of a new wing that snakes around the building, creating a sheltered courtyard between the two. Radical.