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Twitter on Barangaroo
Tonight’s talk on Barangaroo, with Paul Keating and Richard Rogers: filtered live via twitter . A sample from John Demanicor: “they’re wearing us down with “soundbites” “place for people” “human scale” .. yawn hype yawn.”
23.02.10 in urban-planning
Emergency Architects in Haiti
Yesterday I received an email from Emergency Architects Australia. The EAA fund is an alternative to the Architects for Humanity fundraising tomorrow at the many Pecha Kucha nights. The EA relief effort differs from the AfH effort by having people working on the ground in Haiti now, evaluating damaged buildings. The AfH fundraising is being directed to ready to go projects. Here are some excerpts from EAA’s mail, with minor edits.
20.02.10 in groups
Pecha Kucha for Haiti
If you’re in Melbourne, see if you can reserve the 20th of this month to attend a Pecha Kucha fundraiser for the Haiti disaster, which has now claimed as many lives as the SE Asian tsunami – an estimated 230,000. Haiti’s population in 1998 was 9.7M.
13.02.10 in talk
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Bark vs. bite
From the Landcorp (Western Australia) website :
- “LandCorp is the Western Australian Government’s land and property developer.”
- Services include “Optimising triple bottom line outcomes from government-owned land.”
- “Sustainable development requires a different way of thinking about neighbourhoods in our cities and regions and involves identifying ways to demonstrate environmental leadership, community wellbeing, design excellence and economic health to produce integrated and holistic development concepts.”
- “We apply our sustainability vision to our work to bring a balance of social, environmental and economic outcomes for West Australians.”
10.02.10 in urban-planning sustainability
Greg Lynn on crystals
Greg Lynn does some cyrstal curtains for a crystal-making sponsor. 2,000,000 crystals welded into sails. Just what we need. The net effect is surprisingly unsurprising (on video at least). Lynn sounds remarkably polite when asked by the interviewer whether he had to work with an… architect to do the project.
29.01.10 in architects video-clips
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Graduate School of Arts
Just realised that Bates Smart are in the midst of giving the Old Arts Building at Melbourne Uni a bit of a speedy spruce up. Construction started in November and it all has to be done before Semester 1 starts. Someone didn’t get a holiday. The project includes two new lecture theatres and three new collaborative learning rooms.
22.01.10 in education
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Boxes, lanes, and frames
BOXES
Architecture and Design, in its Breaking News section, last week profiled the Bates Smart design for 735 Collins Street, Docklands. The architects say it was inspired by shipping containers and the site’s industrial past.
17.01.10 in buildings
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Sticky carpet out
Another live music venue fails / falls. A few years after the Punters Club’s deluxification into a.. cheap pizza bar, Collingwood’s Tote Hotel is to follow.
14.01.10 in random-debris
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Ady Gil
The Southern Ocean prang this week that put the Ady Gil out of action, drew attention not only to escalating tensions in the whale waters, but also to the trimaran’s design.
07.01.10 in naval-architects
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iPhone uPhone we all Phone
I have a new toy phone to replace my overheated Nokia. It’s called iPhone, and I’m temporarily addicted to it. In order to make this addiction feel slightly productive, I write this post…
24.12.09 in computing
Doyle's backflip
Melbourne Lord Mayor has changed his tune on Swanston Street, and is now advocating a pedestrian friendly strip borrowing from recent work on New Yor’s Broadway and Times Square. New buddy, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is sending him “some material” about it.
24.12.09 in urban-design
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Hillman House
The letter writers are noisy in Sydney’s Northern burbs right now, protesting that an interior designer should be able to alter her own home’s interior. Willoughby council doesn’t agree, as the 1947 Hillman House is a relatively intact Henry Epstein with built in furniture by Paul Kafka. It is listed as a local heritage “item”.