West elevation, Cleveland Point House, Cleveland

Hand-drawn elevation.

South-West elevation, Lake Weyba House, Sunshine Coast

Bath house and bedroom pavilions, with outdoor seating area in foreground.

North-West elevation, Brannigan House, St Lucia, Brisbane

Facing front of site. Carport underneath house, entry steps on left.

West elevation, Sunshine Beach House, Sunshine Coast

Part of western rear facade with fenestrations.

View along gallery to West, Goetz Residence, Buderim, Sunshine Coast

As seen from dining room.

West (side) and north (rear) elevations, public housing, Cotton Tree Housing Estate, Maroochydore

This pilot project at Cotton Tree, Maroochydore, on two adjacent, linear parcels of land has one of the properties privately owned while the other is owned by the public housing authority. Both owners commissioned Lindsay and Kerry Clare to design housing for their separate needs which enabled the two projects to be governed by a single planning and design strategy. This entailed the realignment of the dividing boundary to form two approximately square blocks which made possible the retention of an important stand of mature paperbark trees and gave each block a more useful street frontage. The scheme provides seven two-bedroom units and one single-bedroom unit as the private component, with six single-bedroom units, three two-bedroom units and two three-bedroom units forming the public housing. The dwellings are deployed as an interlaced mat of freestanding blocks, car courts, courtyard gardens, patios and decks. The key distinction between the public and private parts of the scheme is the pooling of the car parking spaces in the public housing to create a shared courtyard. The housing climbs to three storeys on its southern edge and falls to a single storey on the north-western corner. This enables all units and the principal private outdoor spaces to have a northern orientation. The interiors of both the public and private units are skilfully arranged to take full advantage of views, light and breeze.

West elevation, Hammond House, Cooran, Sunshine Coast

Windowless elevation facing uphill. Living room and bedroom study/storage alcove to South elevation on right.

South-west elevation, Prasser House, Buderim

As seem from the street.

North-west elevation, Carpenter Hall house, Wilston, Brisbane

House in foreground, with view to city beyond.

North-West elevation, Smeeton Residence, Buderim

Street (North-West) elevation.

South-west elevation, Addison House, Brisbane

View of south-west elevation through house to rear deck.

Elite athletes: Why does the 'fire' burn so brightly?

Background and Purpose: What drives some athletes to achieve at the highest level whilst other athletes fail to achieve their physical potential? Why does the ‘fire’ burn so brightly for some elite athletes and not for others? A good understanding of an athlete’s motivation is critical to a coach designing an appropriate motivational climate to realize an athlete’s physical talent. This paper examines the motivational processes of elite athletes within the framework of three major social-cognitive theories of motivation. Method: Participants were five male and five female elite track and field athletes from Australia who had finished in the top ten at either the Olympic Games and/or the World Championships in the last six years. Qualitative data were collected using semi-structured interviews. Results and Discussion: Inductive analyses revealed several major themes associated with the motivational processes of elite athletes: (a) they were highly driven by personal goals and achievement, (b) they had strong self-belief, and (c) track and field was central to their lives. The findings are discussed in light of recent social-cognitive theories of motivation, namely, self-determination theory, the hierarchical model of motivation, and achievement goal theory. Self-determined forms of motivation characterised the elite athletes in this study and, consistent with social-cognitive theories of motivation, it is suggested that goal accomplishment enhances perceptions of competence and consequently promotes self-determined forms of motivation.

North-west elevation, Sunshine Coast University Library, Maroochydore

North-west elevation as seen from library forecourt.