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Rem Koolhaas talks
CNN interviews Rem in front of a flippable event space in Seoul. He calls himself a normal man,” to some extent”. There are three vids on the CNN website – they won’t embed here.
25.06.09 in video-clips
NSW awards
The New South Wales ®AIA award ceremony was held on Thursday at the Hilton.
20.06.09 in awards
Sore thumb building grabs wind
Hobart’s 11 storey Marine Board building, standing unloved in a prime position on Franklin Wharf, may be blessed with a set of 11m wind turbines. Resembling overgrown mobile power towers? Owner Robert Rockefeller, recent president of the Property Council in Tasmania, also wants to add wind to the ANZ building in Elizabeth Street.
20.06.09 in sustainability
Split that McMansion
Sydney crew Reincarnated McMansion aim to take one willing McMansion to pieces and reassemble it into “two best practice, zero emissions green homes”. Best of luck.
19.06.09 in sustainability
Libeskind Prefab
Libesking + prefab = not cheap. The Berlin-based builder begs to differ: “We never really wanted it to be a prefab… We want to position this as a piece of art.”
17.06.09 in architects
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Seeing red
The brits(?) commenting on Maynard’s Vader House seem to have it in for his red tiles. Apparently red will date! The article is at the snazzy new Architectural Review site (UK) site. Yes that’s my typo-ridden comment, someone had to stand up for red.
17.06.09 in architects
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Sandcrawler
AJ votes for its fave buildings in Star Wars. The Sand Crawler of Tatooine might not be quite a building, but it sure is good. Also pics of some more recent buildings bearing an uncanny resemblance. The Death Star wins of course.
16.06.09 in weird-wonderful
Wright and women architects
Beverly Willis launched her new short film, “A Girl Is A Fellow Here”: 100 Women Architects in the Studio of Frank Lloyd Wright, at the Guggenheim in New York on Wednesday. Marion Mahoney (1871–1961) gets a mention in this Metropolis article covering the event. She worked with Frank Lloyd Wright from 1895, before later shifting to Australia with her husband Walter Burley Griffin to work on such wonders as the Canberra plan, and Melbourne’s Newman College and Capitol Theatre . Metropolis informs us that she was the first woman to register as an architect in the world.
13.06.09 in architects
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Architects twittering
Here is a long article at the AIA (U.S.) with a good deal more than you need to know about twittering as a way to boost your practice. Seems not a very twittery thing to do, but it’s nevertheless interesting for newbies like me.
13.06.09 in practice
Regrowth Exhibited, Bushfire Homes
Oh damn, Regrowth pod comp got exhibited in Whittlesea and I had not a clue. Here ‘tis
13.06.09 in competitions
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feeding on RSS
For those of you reading the site via an RSS reader, you might want to customise your feed a little. At the moment it is probably pulling up everything new on the site. If you’d like to narrow the feed to just show the newsy articles, or the new links, please check out the “How to RSS” page here .
Ethcl consdrtns
Andrew Maynard’s website has gone all tweety. In a twittering this afternoon, one can sense the anger in the manglish:
09.06.09 in architects
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Melbourne Open House
Time to volunteer! If you feel like showing people around buildings on a midwinter’s day (19th July).
09.06.09 in guides
Domus discount competition
Maybe this happens a lot? A creative hub design competition being run by the Domus academy has as its prizes various discount coupons (sorry: scholarships) for its Masters courses. Even if you aren’t placed you’ll get a 10% discount to the course. Deal!?
09.06.09 in education competitions
Offline
Ashton Raggatt McDougall have abandoned their plain old website, linking instead to pages at wikipedia , flickr , and youtube . Very Web 2.0, sort of. Very trusting too. So if you’re trying to find anything now on their site, wade through the 24 page PDF, if you can find it. Hint: click on the statement of exclusivity/fact. If you are googling, you’re likely to end up in the old site for a while.
08.06.09 in architects
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Not Happy, DAP
Adelaide architect Fred Phillis has complained about the Adelaide Development Assessment Panel after they turned down his application for three student housing towers on Grote Street with a few choice phrases that didn’t make it into the minutes , but ended up in the paper … such as “absolute rubbish” and “future slums”. Adelaide council has warned the DAP to behave itself: “Mr Phillis has requested an apology and that the relevant panel members be removed from office… The council takes any such complaint seriously. This complaint serves as a reminder to you and your duties of public office… In particular, that as a member of the panel, you are expected to act with integrity and professionalism.”
07.06.09 in planning
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