Barnaby Bennett

Contributor Profile

Barnaby Bennett is a designer, researcher and publisher. His current research is a practice-based PhD through UTS in Sydney that is examining the emergence of temporary and transitional placemaking in post-quake Christchurch. He is the founder of projectfreerange.com

Location: Sydney, Australia

Website: Freerange Cooperative Ltd website

Making knowledge public

Practice | In this excerpt from the second volume of the Radical Futures series, Public Knowledge, Barnaby Bennett explores the ability of physical spaces to make publics manifest.

Outside opinion: ChCh central library

Projects | Barnaby Bennett and Jessica Halliday give perspective on the exterior architecture of Tūranga, the new ChCh central library.

Transitional architecture

Review | Barnaby Bennett reviews the fourth Festival of Transitional Architecture, held late last year in Christchurch.

Muted palette: CIGA

Projects | Nine government agencies – and their respective interior identities – are comfortably housed together.

Christchurch Bus Interchange

Projects | Christchurch’s first civic building to be designed since the earthquakes is a bold and innovative bus station by Architectus.

Applied collaborations

Review | Barnaby Bennett reports on the 8th Intl Conference and Exhibition of the Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia.

Civic pride: Kaiapoi Library

Projects | Brightly coloured and multifunctional, this building serves as the community services centre for a small Canterbury town.

Opinion: Barnaby Bennett

Review | Barnaby Bennett discusses ‘the curious case of convention centres’, and how media affects the way our cities are constructed.

Back to the pavilion

Projects | Athfield Architects and Jasmax designed two new cricket pavilions to coincide with the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015.