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Wardle + DA get Melb Uni
In case there is anyone (like me) out there who managed to miss the big news of the week…
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02.09.09 in buildings
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Earthships don't fit the plan
Garbage warrior Michael Reynolds is in town and spoke to The Age . “What the planet needs right now is a billion Earthships . But right now, conventional junk housing is the easiest thing to get a permit for, while the right thing to do – green, sustainable, zero-carbon-emission housing – causes someone to have to fight for years to get permission.”
01.09.09 in sustainability video-clips
Lego weirdness
Don’t know why I’m linking this one, it’s plain trivial. See Star Wars lego warfare in front of lego Sydney Opera House at… Legoland, north of San Diego.
30.08.09 in weird-wonderful
More Adelaide woes
Adelaide Now reports on two developments in a spot of bother, both for being out of character. The first is a Jetsonesque building by DC Architecture in Kent Town, which despite being approved by State Heritage and the Council, and despite being made less space age and more stone age than the pic below shows, was recently knocked back by the local Development Assessment Panel for reasons including:
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Wanganui Design
Nicole Stock of Urbis magazine takes us on a Pecha Kucha tour of some spaces in Wanganui, a city on New Zealand’s West Coast that sems to be punching above its weight on the design front. Click the pic on the web page to see the quicktime slideshow.
29.08.09 in buildings
Another Brut to bite dust
10 Murray Street in Hobart, labelled an “eyesore” in today’s Hobart Mercury , is to tumble to make way for a new development.
28.08.09 in buildings heritage
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Competitions burn you out
Peter Davidson ( Lab Architecture Studio ), in conversation with Michael Ostwald just before the Lab exhibition “Draw the Line” opened last month at the NGV.
25.08.09 in architects competitions
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RE:HAB: the aftermath
At the Australian Design Review , Katherine Mercer and Melanie Dodd ponder the RE:HAB student conference in Canberra.
25.08.09 in education conference
UQ school launched
UQ says the new architecture school by Donovan Hill has been “launched”… not much in the way of pics but the students sound happy enough.
24.08.09 in buildings education
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Utzon revisited
I have just spent an hour watching Utzon’s ‘Edge of the Possible’, the special edition of which has just been released . Thanks Sue for sending a copy. The gut-wrenching story of the century (for an architect) is familiar to us – Utzon the great Dane arrives, wows a dull mid-century Sydney, develops his design as it is getting built, and after a culture clash with Davis Hughes, resigns or gets fired (depending on how you look at it). The building limps to completion without him. This film fills in the gaps with interviews and rare footage. Arup and the ABC emerge rather poorly from it.
23.08.09 in films
Albury best and worst?
The Border Mail has some pages listing the best and worst in Albury architecture. Go figure.
22.08.09 in buildings
Shortlisted
The World Architecture Festival has just shortlisted some lucky architects who now have to figure out if they can afford the trip to Barcelona and the door charge when they get there. The Australasian contingent is:
22.08.09 in competitions
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nether regions
Was Rem being honest / cheeky / stupid when he collaged naked women in lewd positions around his Beijing TV buildings, highlighting certain similarities between the building and the nether regions. The locals have woken up to it and aren’t happy.
21.08.09 in buildings weird-wonderful
Celluloid architects
Strange little list going around the blogs at the moment – films with architects as lead characters.
19.08.09 in film
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MOMA NIMFY video
The poor folks living in a sundrenched apartment block across the road from MOMA in New York are a bit riled about the museum’s proposal to build a tower the height of the Empire State Building in its service yard. In the olden days this would have resulted in letters to council and getting Geoffrey Rush involved. Nowadays you make a movie about it.
18.08.09 in urban-planning video-clips
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