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18.02.19

Book Cover 'Urban Sanctuary - The New Domestic Outdoors'

Anthony Gill Architects

So delighted to see Anna Johnson and Richard Black's wonderful new tome 'Urban Sanctuary, The New Domestic Outdoors' featuring Anthony Gill's Waterloo House on the cover. As well as Anthony's project I'd photographed for the book NMBW's North Melbourne House, Durbach Block Jaggers' Bellevue House, BLOXAS's Garden Pavilion, John Wardle's Lake Wendouree House and MAKE Architecture's Perimeter House. Great work everyone!

09.08.18

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AUSTRALIA #159 COVER STORY

Aspect Studios with Lyons Architecture and iredale pedersen hook's Yagan Square is on the cover of the latest Landscape Magazine. At Perth's new urban square, Yagan Square, flexibility and history provide a platform for engaging with changing notions of national identity reconciliation and civic life.

10.04.18

ARCHITECTURE AUSTRALIA MARCH/APRIL 2018 THE HOUSE COVER STORY

March Studio

March Studio's Compound House is the cover story of this March Architecture Australia magazine. Christine Phillips reviews 'In Melbourne's bayside suburb of Brighton, March Studio's Compound House offers a considered response to site and planning constraints and continues the firm's keen interest in experimental fabrication.'

05.10.16

HOUSES #111 Australia's best homes, gardens and apartments. Cover Story

Chenchow Little's Darling Point Apartment is on the cover of the awards edition of Houses magazine. On Sydney Harbour, this significant and beautifully refined apartment is 2016 'Australian House of the Year'. Bravo Chenchow Little!

22.06.16

Artichoke Magazine Cover Story Issue 55 June 2016

Studiobird

Super stoked to see Studiobird's Dining Shrine and Bruce Goff portrait on the cover of the awards edition of Artichoke Magazine. Thanks Artichoke! Theodora Treehouse, Matt Bird's own bespoke intervention in a rented apartment won the Residential Decoration category at the 2106 Australian Interior Design Awards. Australia's Premier Award for Interior Design went to Chenchow Little for Darling Point Apartment features too in this issue - Darling Point Apartment also won the Residential Design Category. Congratulations to all the winners!

11.11.15

Architecture Australia September/October The Awards Issue Cover Story

Melbourne School of Design University of Melbourne
John Wardle Architects & NADAAA

The latest edition of AA magazine (the national awards edition) has my photograph of the Melbourne School of Design at The University of Melbourne by John Wardle Architects & NADAAA on the cover. The MSofD was deservedly awarded the Daryl Jackson Award - Australia's highest award for an educational building at the National Architecture Awards on Thursday night. Congratulations firstly to the architects for this award but also to the client The University of Melbourne and builder Brookfield Multiplex. For me it was indeed an honour, and a pleasure to photograph this inventive, generous and beautiful building. I'm delighted to see MSofD awarded and quietly chuffed by this edition of AA.

15.08.15

UUJJKOREA COVER STORY

Andrew Maynard Architects

The wonderful Tower House by Maynard Austin Architects is the cover story of the latest UUJJKOREA House Magazine. And that's my son Wolf running by. Can anyone read Korean?

28.05.15

Artichoke Magazine Cover Story Issue 51 June 2015

Super pleased for Sibling and their winning the premier award at the 2015 Australian Interior Design Awards with the Dust Redux retail concept store. Beautiful!

06.04.15

HOUSES #102 AUSTRALIAN RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN COVER STORY

Lake Wendouree Residence
John Wardle Architects

I'm thrilled to see the very fine Lake Wendouree House by John Wardle Architects on the cover of the latest Houses Magazine. Crafted out of Krause bricks, zinc and spotted gum the house's series of pavilions, courtyards and gardens hinge off an anchoring spine. On the shore of Lake Wendouree, this new house establishes a direct connection to the civic heart of Ballarat.

I've also photographed for this issue NMBW Architecture's Studio's South Yarra Warehouse, Make Architectures M House, Nobbs Radford Architects now 10 year old Dulwich Hill House and a portrait of Tobias Partners' Nick Tobias & their Paddington studio for the magazine's People section.

04.02.15

Architecture Australia January/February ACT for Kids Cover Story

M3 Architecture's ACT For Kids Child and Family Centre of Excellence in Townsville is this issues of AA's Cover Story. Set along side a natural creek bed, resplendent with mature melaleuca and eucalyptus trees the materiality of the buildings draws on the legacy of James Birrells earlier work at the JCU Townsville Campus. Fences and sunshades of Koppers Logs suggest playful fun for the Centre's kids. It's a safe, stimulating and indeed wonderful envroment for vunerable children.

Featured also in this issue is the partnership of John Wardle Architects and NADAAA's Melbourne School of Design, the new Architecture Building and Planning at Melbourne University. Abundant ideas and incredible detail flourish in a built pedagogy. Greater than the sum of it's parts the MSofD includes but is certainly not limited to a supended series of studios, cantilevered offices, deeply coffered timber skylights and a rooftop japanese garden.

It's been an incredible privelege for me to have photographed these two projects.

29.09.14

Mesa Verde Melbourne. Inside #83 Cover Story

Grant Amon Architects

Designed by Architect Grant Amon, who knows a thing or three about restaurants and bars. Mesa Verde - The Green Table is #83 Inside Magazine cover story. Jan Henderson writes 'Mesa Verde has developed a self sufficent (midwestern oasis!) ecosystem high in the sky that takes sustainability to another level.

10.08.14

Cubomania! Green Magazine Cover Story

Phooey

Lovingly designed and imagined by Phooey. Cubo House is this month's Green Magazine Issue 38 Cover Story. Cubomania refers to a surrealist technique of collages in which a picture or image is cut into squares and the squares are then reassembled to create an entirely new work. Phooey have created a family that's so much more than the sum of it's upcycled parts.

17.03.14

Monash Art Design & Architecture Volume Control Speaker Series

On 17 March at 6pm Peter's presenting an artist talk to students of communication design for Monash Art Design & Architecture's speaker series – Volume Control.

MADA's Volume Control provides undergraduate and Higher Degree Research students with access to artists and designers, through a series of lectures, workshops and exhibitions.

06.12.13

MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo - ERASMUS EFFECT Italian Architects Abroad

Karri Loop House Margaret River
MORQ

Till the 6th of April 2014 the exhibition Erasmus Effect investigates the progressive acceleration that the phenomenon of “migrant” Italian architecture has undergone in recent decades. From the work of the established international companies to the projects and built works of the young Italian studios, shedding light on both the “widespread quality” of their work and the dense network of collaborations and trans-national ateliers born in the wake of the "Erasmus generation".

I've been pleased to photograph the work of 'transnational atelier' MORQ over the last year. Projects for the exhibition incude their Noosa House, Karri Loop House and the Love Story shop in North Fremantle.

22.11.13

NGV Melbourne Now Exhibition 22 Nov - 23 Mar 2014

Melbourne Now celebrates the latest art, architecture, design, performance and cultural practice to reflect the complex cultural landscape of creative Melbourne.

Sampling the City: Architecture in Melbourne Now reveals the complex web of personalities, factions and trajectories that make up Melbourne’s vibrant contemporary architectural culture. Presented in an immersive video and sound space, the work and buildings by over twenty Melbourne architecture practices illustrate five themes representation and the city; craftsmanship and materiality; art-engaged practice; stitching the city; and bio-futures/advanced architecture.

Curated by Fleur Watson, the project features exhibition design by Amy Muir and Stuart Geddes, projection and soundscape design by Keith Deverall, introductory narrative by Watson and Michael Spooner, and built environment imagery by Peter Bennetts.

Peter was commissioned to photograph Melbourne for the immersive video and soundscape. Moving images of Melbourne street scenes were edited with a 'memory fade' technique rendering the environment experiential and more than just object.

The biggest and most ambitious exhibition in the NGV’s history, Melbourne Now heralded a new era and broke all attendance figures with 753,000 visitors over the 120 days of the exhibition.

05.09.13

Architecture Australia September/October La Plage du Pacifique Cover Story

In an issue dedicated to the question "Is it finished yet?" Kristin Green Architecture's yet to be completed La Plage du Pacifique resort in Vanuatu features on the cover of the latest Architecture Australia. An exhibition of photographs of this unfinished resort has led Leon van Shaik to review both Green's architectural projects and Bennetts' photography as he seeks an asnswer to the question of completion or restoration.

Also featured in this issue is ARM's stunning Perth Arena.

04.09.13

ARTICHOKE 44 SPRING STREET GROCER MELBOURNE COVER STORY

Spring St Grocer
Kristin Green Architecture

A gelataria, grocer, cheese room and some time exhibition space on Sping Street is the cover story of Artichoke 44. The goddess Athena albeit armed with organic gardening tools and not her usual sword can now be found on Spring Street.

01.09.13

In sunny Queensland

Shunning the snow, PB has been a regular visitor to sunny Queensland, not to escape Melbourne’s winter, but to photograph a series of new buildings at the University of Queensland. Just finished and shortlisted for the upcoming World Architecture Festival Awards is HASSELL and Richard Kirk Architects joint venture Advanced Engineering Building. The Advanced Engineering Building or AEB as it's already affectionally know as lives up to its name with state of the art teaching and lab spaces and passive and integrated sustainability initiatives.

Other new buildings at UQ lining up for Peter's lens are the Learning Innovation Building (Richard Kirk Architects), the Global Change Institute (HASSELL) and in Cairns revisiting the Eddie Orbin house.

27.05.13

La Plage du Pacifique Vanuatu Exhibition - Christopoulos, Green & Bennetts

Time moves a little slower in Vanuatu, not that anyone there actually minds, and infact this is a big part of the appeal of the place. However if you are a young, energetic architect from a fast-track city you might yearn for the pace to pick up a little, especially as your ambitious design for a luxury resort emerges ever so slowly, half-realised on a spectacular tract of land where the forest meets the sea.

Kristin Green of Kristin Green Architecture invited photographer Peter Bennetts to accompany her to La Plage du Pacifique, Vanuatu. The resulting photographs are anything but “in progress” documentation.

Green has bravely allowed Bennetts to present her work at it’s most vulnerable but revealing such strength of form that we can already imagine the finished work.

We see the bones, the inner working, the structure – the important business of architecture before the detailing of surfaces and slick styling. This is architecture at its rawest.

Bennetts’ own unique vision has captured a profound stillness in the half-completed buildings and surrounding landscape. Time has shifted to such a degree that past, present and future/birth, life and decay, merge in one. Light and form create striking compositions that, rather than a direct descriptor, are more evocative of place.

It may seem incongruous to be opening an exhibition of architectural images in the tropics at the launch of a cheese cellar, but for those of you who don’t know, Green is also the architect responsible for the Spring Street Grocer mini-complex. To all her projects she brings a vitality, commitment to concept and a quirky sense of purpose, and this most recent collaboration with entrepreneur Con Christopoulos and photographer Peter Bennetts is no exception.

Downstairs @ Spring Street Grocer

157 Spring Street, Melbourne

Thursday 30th May 2013 from 5.30pm

(Exhibition continues until 9th June 2013)

19.03.13

ARCHITECTURAL URBANISM: MELBOURNE/SEOUL POSTER

NMBW Architecture Studio's Kerr Street Apartments is the poster for the Architectural Urbanism Exhibition at the Korean National Museum of the Arts in Seoul.

As well as NMBW's Kerr Street I'm thrilled my photographs of Muir Mendes', iph's and Kerstin Thompson's projects are writ large as floor to ceiling images. Very excited to see!

Architectural Urbanism is an ambition and sensibility for propositions that address the context of the city within the operative scale of the small architectural project. Architectural urbanism represents a tailoring of projects to the local; to the materiality and specificity of the everyday; and to the grain and substance of the location above all else. Architectural urbanism is less about erasure and more about insertion; infill; the weaving of old and new and the dynamics that evolve from subtle and careful manipulation of the city in detail.

Architectural Urbanism/Melbourne Seoul opens March 28 - April 5