131 RUSSELL STREET & 478 GEORGE STREET

摘要

There's something decidedly Napoleonic about Angelo Candalepas. It's not just his serious brow, thick curly hair and deeply European aesthetic, nor his passion for good civil structures and enlightened educational environments. Maybe it's the sense that, like Jacques-Louis David's famous 1801 portrait of the emperor on his rearing white stallion, Candalepas would like to charge at a few opposing battalions: those forces that militate against good architecture, whether municipal, corporate or within his own professional company. Accepting one of two major awards in the 2016 Australian Institute of Architects national awards, he quipped, "I'm certain if this were the state awards they wouldn't have given me an opportunity to talk."