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Robin Boyd open houses
Six years after the National Trust tour of many of Boyd’s best, the Robin Boyd Foundation is putting on a new 6 house self-guided tour, on April 18th. If it’s anything like as popular as the last one, you’d better book last week.
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27.03.10 in tours
Proposition 2065
The newest in a series of always-challenging and hard-to-not-do PROPOSITION competitions is gearing up. This time the site is in postcode 2065, St Leonards New South Wales.
Raimund Abraham
Christopher Hawthorne’s article in the LA Times about embassies, the prescence of one place in another, includes a few words about the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York. When I visited it a few years ago, I thought it had that alien presence of a Shin Takamatsu or John Hejduk building – that there was a story to this contraption that would be worth knowing. There is a small split level gallery in the basement, rather pokey (the site is only 25 feet wide), exhibiting Austrian art. I took in the dusty art, huffed that I couldn’t get upstairs, where the building was really interesting, and wandered off to my train. It must have had some effect on me though, as I got on the wrong train and went to Queens.
26.03.10 in architects
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Shanghai over the topness
At Boston.com are some startling pics of nation pavilions competing with one another to be the craziest thing in town, for a moment.
25.03.10 in exhibition
Dear Larry
In answer to your to-the-point gmail of this morning (“DO YOU CARRY WEBER AND DO YOU TAKE CREDIT CARDS..”). Yes we’d love to take your credit card, just send it in. While we don’t carry weber, I do have a portable barbeque that I carried all the way to Edinburgh Gardens on Australia Day. I can’t remember the brand. I hope that helps.
15.03.10 in random-debris
Madden's meeting
Big News has covered the email schemozzle to death, so I thought I’d leave it to them. But I can’t resist this screenshot from ABC TV. Masterful composition. Here is an isolated Madden looking more like Jim Hacker than he would probably like. He had just gate-crashed his way into a very important inquiry into his own department’s pants-down on public consultation. The other lads appear to be leaving him out of their chat. But what on earth has that guy on the right drawn? A legless pelvis? In confident strokes. Great work for a pollie.
13.03.10 in planning weird-wonderful
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Keating on the attack again
At the Urban Development Institute of Australia national congress in Sydney this week, a Mr Paul Keating spoke with gumption, apparently shocking delegates.
11.03.10 in urban-design
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Penthouse Mouse
This could be the last chance to have a good look around the Naval and Military Club in Little Collins Street, Melbourne. The low-rise 1967 building with its distinctive arched windows is due to tumble soon, a new planning proposal having been approved for a Buchan designed 32 storey hotel and apartment complex.
11.03.10 in buildings heritage
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Taglietti video
Enrico Taglietti on his ACT schools. While at his desk, in front of piles of old drawings, he talks about working under Gough Whitlam (not unlike the pressures of the BER), concrete, and the good and “shameful” modifications to his buildings.
28.02.10 in education video-clips
Process this Monday
Process is on this Monday 1st March. They are having a spot of bother with their website, so you can find it here for the moment.
Food for thought
Give ideas, get food. A new Sydney-based initiative from Thomas Rivard and Michael Lewarne .
“Part hot dog stand, part ticket booth, part puppet theatre, part Dalek, the kiosk serves free soup in exchange for the public’s specific written suggestions about what they’d like to see happen in and around the particular places in which the event occurs.”
26.02.10 in activists
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