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RRRadiothon
Don’t forget – RRR The Architects are having their Radiothon tonight. Please fork out for a good cause.
18.08.09 in radio
UTS docs posted
The jury report for the UTS Broadway competition, won by DCM, is now available online.
17.08.09 in buildings competitions
Into the frying pan
Some shocking news from the ABC: “The Ballina Shire Council has received a submission seeking permission to demolish the Big Prawn.”
16.08.09 in buildings weird-wonderful
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iDemo
The upcoming demolition of Lonsdale House, an art deco building in Melbourne’s dowdy Lonsdale Street, is attracting attention that must be worrying the developers and Myer. A brief survey of recent developments turns up calls to arms, critiques of Melbourne’s heritage policy, and thoughts about what inner Melbourne should strive to be.
16.08.09 in buildings heritage
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Cutting the tape
Architects embroiled in planning or heritage merry-go-rounds might find this article in the NYT warms the cockles. Read how architect Wilfred Armster landed a ‘monstrous’ spaceship condo in a historic streetscape in Connecticut by giving a ‘Jimmy Stewart’ speech to a crowded town hall.
14.08.09 in architects
dense agglomerations
RMIT student Tom Morgan, fresh from winning the Regrowth Pod competition, won the HP Cityscape 2020 competition at a ceremony in Melbourne last week. I’ve no clue what this competition was about other than “visions of an Australian city skyline in the year 2020 “- but here are some pics and words I’ve dredged.
13.08.09 in competitions
Crazy with carpet
One of the events at the recent Sydney InDesign allowed architects to get creative with carpet. Give them a yard…
13.08.09 in product-library
Building Commission says..
The Building Commission of Victoria has small profiles on many careers within the building industry. They forgot architecture, but most of the rest are covered. Including the draftsperson:
12.08.09 in practice
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Dr John adjunct prof at FAD
“Dr John Denton, of Denton Corker Marshall Architects, has accepted an adjunct appointment as Professor of Architecture in the Faculty of Art and Design.” MONASH NEWS 22.07.09
12.08.09 in education
Pulling teeth?
Will Alsop leaves architecture for painting:
“I love architecture but one of the things that gets up my nose, particularly in London, is that doing anything is like pulling teeth… There are so many hangers on and architectural advisers who know nothing and it gets in the way.”
09.08.09 in architects practice
What does an architect do again?
A survey commissioned by Engineers Australia asked over 2000 Australains what they thought of various careers. In terms of understanding what the career was about, architecture came bottom, alongside science, engineering, and, erm… politics.
09.08.09 in practice
Graves [tails]
05.08.09 in weird-wonderful video-clips
Muddle will ensue
I just stumbled on what looks like a valuable tool for researchers. The NLA has been quietly shifting thousands of old newspapers into a searchable digital format. The current date range available to search is 1803 to 1954.
05.08.09 in heritage
Pinós and Rem are full
The Carme Pinós lecture at Melbourne Uni tonight is full – but you’ll be able to see the vid here soon.
04.08.09 in talk
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Altinum found
Some clever chaps at the University of Padua have mapped the ancient Roman harbour city, Altinum, lying under a paddock seven kms North of Venice. The city had sunk into a lagoon, but some infra-red aerial photography during the 2007 drought was enough to tease it out. Well, after the images were fiddled with to remove plant water stress variations. This article at Der Spiegel has more fascinating images in its photo galleries, including the town’s plan, and some beautiful infra-red aerial photos of crops and cities.
01.08.09 in cities photographers
Shields and gills
Ah.. here is a render of the DCM UTS Broadway building (see previous article ).
Can’t tell very much from this, but everyone the SMH spoke to says it’s very good.
01.08.09 in buildings
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Scorched
Does Google know something we don’t about the Supreme Court building in Sydney?
01.08.09 in buildings weird-wonderful
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UTS Broadway competition
And the winner is… Denton Corker Marshall.
01.08.09 in architects competitions
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