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Johnson Pilton Walker

Sydney-based practice Johnson Pilton Walker designed the new National Portrait Gallery building.

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2002

Untitled, 2013

Finalist, MDPA 2013

2009

Supporters

The silent spectre of motion (Le spectre silencieux du movement), 2012

Finalist, iD2012

2021

The Tangles

According to an 1981 Australian Women’s Weekly profile of fast bowler Dennis Lillee, a moustache was a ‘compulsory’ accessory for sportsmen.

Nothing black and white about the Greys

Marriage: a prolonged disaster

Architecture

Natural light and human proportions – the design by Johnson Pilton Walker

Friendship’s rhyme and reason

Poetic trio

A magnificent rivalry

Alexander (Jock) Sturrock and Alan Bond

Capital Cool

Outsiders tend to give Canberra a bad rap: sterile, plagued by politicians, a comatose capital for professionals and academics. Nick Cave once said he didn’t like the city because there were too many punks.

Oz Rock

Two of the music industry’s highest-selling performers originated in suburban Australia. The Bee Gees started out in Brisbane, for instance, and AC/DC played their first gigs at a nightclub in inner Sydney.