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INDESIGN issue 47
Brownless Biomedical Library
Brownless Biomedical Library has recently been published in the latest issue of Indesign.
'21st Century Learning'
'The University of Melbourne is currently re-designing a number of spaces to meet the demands of today's students. As part of this plan, McBride Charles Ryan (MCR) has recently re-worked two levels within the four-storey Brownless Biomedical Library.'
AUSTRALIAN DESIGN REVIEW
29.09.11 | australiandesignreview.com
"McBride Charles Ryan's BER-funded school is a robust yet whimsical building, with a playful facade inspired by the Federation house."
Read the entire article by RMIT lecturer Christine Phillips here.
THE AGE
VICTORIAN ARCHITECTS ON AWARD SHORTLIST
"Eight Victorian architectural firms have been shortlisted for the biggest global architecture competition, the World Architecture Festival...previous WAF winners McBride Charles Ryan is shortlisted in the learning category for the Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School's junior boys building." 26th August 2011
AR Magazine
Cover Aug/Sept Issue 121
PEGS Junior / BLACK MAGIC
pg 46-53
"A new school building by McBride Charles Ryan draws favorable comparison from one of its young occupants to Harry Potter's Hogwarts. It is also a project of outstanding architectural merit delivered through the Building the Education Revolution scheme. Architectural sleight of hand? No. Just clever design."
THE AGE
Better designs that lead to better learning
"Innovative buildings can produce more flexible and creative spaces for students" February 28, 2011
ELECTRONIC BEATS MAGAZINE v.2, 2010
Klein Bottle House and Letterbox House feature in Electronic Beats Magazine, June-August.
ESQUISSES MAGAZINE
DESTINATION ARCHITECTURE v.21, 2010
Monaco House
The Age Newspaper
The Arts Section - Friday, August 13, 2010
McBride Charles Ryan is a finalist in the World Architecture Festival Awards. Featured in The Age Newspaper on Friday the 13th of August, 2010.
The Weekly Review
June 23-29, 2010
Fitzroy High School
"McBride Charles Ryan...Fitzroy High School...this is a multi-award winning firm and a definite contender."
HOUSES MAGAZINE
V.74, 2010
MCR profile
"This is a clue to MCR's intention for form-making and , throughout our interview, both Rob and Debbie repeatedly referred to "the urban experience" and "urban memory."
HET HOUT BLAD MAGAZINE
V.4, JUNE 2010
Letterbox House
THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
April 24-25, 2010
Monaco House
"McBride Charles Ryan's Monaco House seems to erupt out of its starched and narrow lane just metres from the Melbourne Club, bubbling convexly above street level and concavely at it, punching a crumpled cave of conviviality into the street wall."
ar magazine
Architecture Review v.114, 2010
Fitzroy High School
"A long patterned wall is wrapped to form a 'hand and finger' shape for the building's footprint."
Mark Magazine
v.10, July, 2010
Klein Bottle House
"Using a mathematical model, McBride Charles Ryan avoids square angles in a house in Rye."
BVN Magazine
Binyanvediur, v. 126, 2010
Klein Bottle House- Cover Issue
"The combination of Origami art and mathematical formula by German mathematician, Felix Klein, has been the basis for a house in Australia..."
home design Magazine
v.13, 2010
Letter Box House
"Every part of the trees were used, the branches becoming door handles and trunks becoming sculptural seats."
de Magazine
Design Exchange, v.18, march/may, 2010
Klein Bottle House
"The stark contrast and seperation from the wild natural surroundings gives the home an even more other-wordly effect..."
Urbis Magazine
v. 49
Letter Box House
"A magnificent folded spotted gum spine forms the main, oblique facade."
THE AUSTRALIAN HOUSE
ANNA JOHNSON & PATRICK BINGHAM-HALL
Dome House & Klein Bottle House
"The pixelated moments in the project, which occur when openings, windows and doors break through the central sphere..."
A POCKETFUL OF HOUSES
Edited by Stephen Crafti
Klein Bottle house
"The brief to MCR was for a joyous house, one that liberated the senses. And like a great party, where the bottle is left uncorked, the front door is regularly open to extended family and friends."
Herald Sun Newspaper
Realestate section, Saturday, July 11, 2009
Letterbox House- Cover story
"This project continues Melbourne's rich history of experimentation with coastal weekenders."
Monitor Magazine
v. 54
Letter Box House
"McBride Charles Ryan like the buildings that make you smile (not Laugh)..."
Herald Sun Newspaper
Sunday life section, November, 2009
"Some items don't last, but you don't walk out of the store thinking you're going to pass them down to your children."
the plan magazine
september, 2009
Klein Bottle: Cover Issue
"The architecture is an example of evolving ultra-modern forms that successfully blend into their enviroment."
The Age Newspaper
The arts section, friday, november 13, 2009
Klein Bottle House
"Klein Bottle House has been declared the best house in the world at the World Architecture Festival in Barcelona..."
The Age Newspaper
melbourne, July 11, 2009
Letterbox house
"I think McBride Charles Ryan really push boundaries of how one might think a house might look."
Architect Victoria Publication
2009
Fitzroy High School
"The extraordinary curvilinear plans owe their geometry to Alvar Aalto's vases..."
House and Garden Magazine
January, 2009
Klein Bottle House
"Thinking outside the square produced this extraordinary holiday hideaway on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula."
Timber Design Awards
2009
Letterbox House
"There is obviously nothing conventional about this enigmatic home."
a + a magazine
Architecture and Art, february, 2008
Klein Bottle- Cover Issue
"Challenge Four Dimensional Space"
ar magazine
Architecture Review, v.75
21 Wynnstay rd
"McBride Charles Ryan has created an inspiring model for medium-density housing to accomodate collective individualism."
IW Magazine
v.66
Klein Bottle House
"The interior follows the character of the exterior to presents the balance and unity, and reinforces the aesthetic aspect through effectual circulation plan and spatial utilization."
ar magazine
Architecture Review, v.92
Dome House
"Spaces were colour- coded as exterior (the main living) or interior (bleached white)."
The Age Newspaper
Melbourne, July 5, 2008
"The unusually shaped house reflects a Klein bottle that has no distinct "inner" and "outer" sides."
AA magazine
Architecture Australia, March/ April, 2008
Monaco House
"With Monaco House, a little gem that resides in Ridgway place, McBride Charles Ryan has again delieved a building consistent with its design agenda and folio."
Perspective Magazine
may, 2008
Klein Bottle House
"The house was designed in such a way that nature was not merely a pleasant background but also an entire part of the interior design and of the everyday dwelling experience."
The Age Newspaper
Melbourne, Tuesday, april 15, 2008
"it is folded and joined like a piece of origami. The composition of stone, stainless steel, white render, glass, and lawn roof is almost as cubist as a Cezanne."
hise Magazine
v. 48, June, 2008
Klein Bottle House- Cover Issue
AA Magazine
Architecture Australia, November/ December, 2008
Klein Bottle House
"The overall perception of the house is one of distinctive new language for domestic architecture."
domus Magazine
v.920, december, 2008
Monaco House
"Heraldic, surrealism, Principality of Monaco, Gothic, Prague cubism; these were the 'key words' we came up with to produce the final result..."
The Age Magazine
Melbourne, v.57, July, 2009
Monaco House
"It's probably one of the best buildings in a tight block..."
"The building changes during the day and the seasons..."
Mornington Peninsula Leader Newspaper
December 9, 2008
Klein Bottle House
The Age Melbourne (A2)
Culture and Life section Saturday, November 15, 2008
Letterbox House
"People are incredibly curious because at the front you can't see the mass of the building..."
Houses Magazine
v. 67
Petrucelli House
"Engaging the interior with the outdoors was a key aim of the architects..."
Monument Magazine
feb/ March 2006
Cave House- Cover Issue
"McBride Charles Ryan's Cave House couples intellectual rigour with Pop exuberance."
Monument Magazine
v. 70
Templestowe Primary School
"It is a building of considerable and uncommon completeness. It does all it is asked to do, and it does all of them very well."
ar
Architecture Review v.103, 2007
Klein Bottle House- Cover Issue
"MCR has used the geometric wonder of the Klein Bottle as the point of departure to create this project."
Architect Victoria Awards
RAIA Victorian Awards 2006
Cave House
"A Cave House is an ambitious and bold example of residential planning and creation of architectural form."
The Age Newspaper
Monday, July 25, 2005
"...colour and texture distinguishes the group's [MCR] work from that of many other architects who are sometimes scared of colour..."
The Age Newspaper
Wednesday, march 3, 2004
Studio Apartment, Carlton
"Starting out in tough times helped define the style of interior designer Debbie-Lyn Ryan and her husband, architect Rob McBride"