Really old weird news - a collection

05.07.03 Brad, is that a wise career move? Brad Pitt into architecture

14.05.03 This inflatable church is not exactly Jetsons stuff, but I think it looks quite good when it’s half collapsed. INFLATABLE CHURCH

03.06.03 Here‘s the last of these 60s fashion pics I’m going to show, once again with the opera house (in construction) in the background making more of an impression than the cardigan in the foreground.

14.05.03 This a very stylish picture. Why can’t we have jumpers and cravats like that any more. If you look closely though you’ll see the Sydney Opera House in construction in the background, which I guess dates it at about 1966. [Found at the Presbyterian Opportunity Shop in Dunedin]

22.02.03 Yesterday Mr Adam Kossof commenced rebuilding the Tower of Babel out of ice at Lake Vostok in Antarctica. DETAILS

In a slightly more plausible article, the Martians have take up residence under the same lake. DETAILS

17.02.03 ‘Give me that architect type of look.’ Select the right glasses and trademark your face. NY Times

OLD NEWS, STILL STRANGE NEWS

Londoners caught with their pants down by flush and blush
Monica Bonvicini’s loo again, with pic.
(Age 02.01.04)

You’ll blush when you flush in this loo with a view
Monica Bonvicini: odours and mirrors.
(SMH 26.12.03)

Residents prisoners of lesser lights
Ivanhoe ho ho. Something seasonal. I wonder if they needed planning permits.
(Age 14.12.03)

Big Pineapple survives
One of Queensland’s architectural wonders is almost juiced..
(Age 11.12.03)

Texan mansion too darned big
Re: France in Texas. The peculiar ways people spend money.
(AGE 29.05.03) Tip KH

World’s first blowup church
Re: Mobile mortar. An English church-come-bouncy castle takes to the roads.
(AGE 14.05.03)

Defenestration
Re: Words. And the meaning is… A laypersons guide to archispeak.
(NY Times 01.12.02) Rego req’d

Posted by Peter on 22.03.03 in weird and wonderful