Laura Harding works with the Sydney-based practice Hill Thalis Architecture + Urban Projects. She completed her architecture degree at Sydney University in 1998. Laura regularly participates in design juries at Sydney University, University of Technology, Sydney and the University of NSW. She taught in the third year architectural design program at the University of NSW from 2006 to 2010.
Laura’s architectural reviews and criticism are regularly published in Architecture Australia. She has also contributed to Landscape Architecture Australia and Houses magazine.
Laura was a member of the jury for the Public Architecture and Urban Design categories of the NSW Chapter Australian Institute of Architects Awards in 2011.
Laura Harding's Latest contributions
Parramatta Aquatic Centre by Grimshaw with Andrew Burges Architects and McGregor Coxall
The sophisticated design for a public recreation hub on the edge of Sydney’s second CBD emphasises the contiguity of city and landscape, creating a sense of reciprocal spectacle.
Bondi Pavilion Restoration and Conservation Project by Tonkin Zulaikha Greer
In a delicate balance between conservation, intervention and demolition, TZG has unified an “unruly collection of parts” to bring a cultural icon back to the centre of community life in Sydney.
Public aspiration: Metro North West Line
Eight new stations across Sydney’s north-western suburbs have been executed with admirable public aspiration and conviction – and under the assumption that the other infrastructure required for the burgeoning suburbs is forthcoming.
Breezy lyricism: Three House
The apparent simplicity of this small, three-pavilion home in Brisbane’s inner suburbs, inspired by the clients’ love of cooking and South-East Asian architecture, is the outcome of a rigorous plan that creates a sum greater than its parts.
Civic bravura: Waterloo Apartments
In this raw concrete block, Chenchow Little does not shy away from firmly anchoring its work in the urban fabric of Sydney’s fast-growing Green Square precinct and making an emphatic mark through scale.
Miracle box: Phoenix Central Park
Behind a singular brick facade, John Wardle Architects and Durbach Block Jaggers have brought into dialogue a labyrinthine gallery and a timber-lined performance space.
‘Extraordinary in every sense’: Dangrove Art Storage Facility
The uncompromising architecture of this building is reflective of, and contributes, to the cultural ambition of the institution.
Defiant and spirited: The Architecture Symposium, Brisbane
At The Architecture Symposium, Brisbane, held on 13 March 2020, eight speakers reflected on the theme of water, refracting their architectural output through its unifying, yet mutable, lens.
Protocol failure: Sydney’s public urbanity is disappearing behind aggressive, private individualism
Laura Harding argues that Sydney’s planning regulatory framework is putting the city at risk of trading its public landmarks for monuments to gambling and real estate.
Joynton Avenue Creative Precinct
In this robust work of adaptive re-use, Peter Stutchbury Architecture has reached back into history to transform an ensemble of former hospital buildings in Sydney’s Green Square Town Centre into a dynamic public arts precinct.