Space: Award it and they will come

The Garden by the Bay in Singapore has been anointed World Building of the Year 2012. Photo: Supplied

Architects from around the world gathered in Singapore last week for the World Architecture Festival and the anointing of the World Building of the Year for 2012. After winning their categories, many Australian buildings were in the running for the impossibly grand title. Among them, Melbourne architect John Wardle for his Shearer's Quarters in Tasmania (right) which took home ''World's Best Villa''. Sydney Architects FJMT won the Offices category for Darling Quarter. The Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne seems to win everything Billard Leece Partnership and Bates Smart enter it in and duly nabbed the Health category. Hassell was recognised for several projects, including three Futures projects: Perry Park in Sydney and two projects in China. The Garden by the Bay in Singapore (bottom) designed by UK architects Wilkinson Eyre and landscape architects Grant Associates received the top accolade. The jury loved its dramatic greenhouses - the Cooled Conservatories: ''If they can cool these glasshouses through natural cooling, we should ask why it can't be done in other buildings?''

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Melbourne architect John Wardle's award-winning shearers' quarters. Photo: Supplied

FROM HER TO ETERNITY

It's generally accepted that precious jewellery will be passed on within families, yet to recycle someone else's heirlooms into contemporary jewellery might seem unacceptable and slightly ghoulish. But then Julia deVille treads fearlessly among the dead. She is renowned for her taxidermied sculptures, but her jewellery also serves as memento mori - reminders of mortality. For Bequeath, deVille's first jewellery show in five years, the past lives on in ''eternity rings'' made of jewellery and gemstones that deVille has collected over the years from owners long since deceased. ''I'm constantly in awe of jewellery's capacity to carry meaning beyond our own lives,'' she says. ''For example, my mother is going to be turned into a diamond when she dies and I will make her into a ring for myself. Thus her life, in some form, continues ''

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Space: Award it and they will come