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Phooey roll up the carpet
The Phooey ‘Upcycle’ exhibition is closing tonight – with drinks.. erm… right now. It is/was at the Wunderlich Gallery at Melbourne Uni. For those how didn’t get there, here I some phone cam shots I took yesterday. The entire exhibition is printed on old carpet tiles, and covers the floor and wall of the gallery. There is nothing in the gallery space expect for visitors looking like giants walking over small buildings. Considering the less-than-pristine state of the carpet tiles, it is interesting to see how well the images have printed onto them – they are quite high resolution. IT was easy to become emersed in the little scenes scattered around the room. Quite a pong from the paints and glues hung in the room, which may have had an effect on my state of mind.
01.10.10 in exhibition
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Bruce Rickard dies
Sydney architect Bruce Rickard died last week, at the age of 80, after a long career turning out very good residential work. Here are a few links.
30.09.10 in architects
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I heart NY, this week
Things may be looking a little American around here this week – I am digging up some stuff for a friend visiting there soon. Back to normal transmission soon.
21.09.10 in random-debris
Grand Designer
Peter Maddison struts his stuff for the upcoming Aussie version of Grand Designs.
13.09.10 in video-clips
Primates don't like open plan
According to one neurologist, and a Fairfax journalist, open plan workplaces stress us out and don’t lead to innovative thinking. Why? Because we’re primates, we think best in the morning, and we think best at home.
10.09.10 in workplace-design
Venice trekking
Shumi Bose at Urban Omnibus walks us through the exhibits at the Venice Biennale. Despite Seijima’s theme being “People meeting in architecture”, Bose found that, “the consideration of people and experience of architecture was pretty remote from most of the exhibits.” For Shumi, the Romanian pavilion won, with its Bellini-at-the-NGV skewed box in a box.
08.09.10 in exhibition
Process tonight
Melburnians, Process is on tonight at Loop Bar in Meyer Place, 6.30pm. Its about Melbourne’s tall ships (commission flats). Brave the cold. Details below:
06.09.10 in talk
Birdcage slide
The old Birdcage hotel in Auckland is sliding very slowly up the hill to temporarily make room for a new tunnel (which will help that city’s enormous traffic jams for a wee while). The move is pretty slow, as this time lapse shows, as the old brick hotel was not very strong in the first place. The last thing it needed was to be put on skates.
01.09.10 in buildings weird-wonderful
squint/opera TV
Oh dear my inbox is getting a bit full. Sorry if you’ve sent something in and I haven’t gotten to it.
26.08.10 in films
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Melbourne MSS say
Melbourne City Council and the State overnment have a new Municipal Strategic Statement in the works. Its vision is for a Melbourne that is:
26.08.10 in urban-planning
Now for Now and When
Just a reminder that the Australian exhibition (curated by John Gollings and Ivan Rijavec) at the Venice Architecture Biennale opens on Thursday. From the list of winners, it could be good. I will be keeping an eye open for images from Venice so we can pretend to be there.
24.08.10 in exhibition
Rem course in Russia
Rem Koolhaas and OMA / AMO have developed the programme for the 2010 / 2011 year at the Strelka Institute , a non-profit cross-disciplinary school in Moscow. Dang, the deadline for free scholarship international registrations was August 22nd – but you could blame me for not getting around to this until now. If you happen to be reading this in Italy, you could also hot-foot it across to Venice to hear Rem and Strelka founders Alexander Mamut and Ilya Oskolkov-Tsentsiper discussing architectural education on the 26th.
24.08.10 in call-for-submissions education
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Wind right back to 2002, when Zaha Hadid’s former employer, Remment Koolhaas (OMA) won the competition for the Chinese CCTV tower . Here is a scale model by his wife and OMA co-founder Madelon Vriesendorp .
23.08.10 in weird-wonderful
Geelong notices Deakin
Geelong Advertiser’s lead editorial today toasts the Committee for Geelong’s Vision II, which will engage with Deakin architecture students to bring about architecture with a ‘wow-factor’. The editorial states: “Geelong has been slow to utilise the grey matter of its built-environment experts.”
10.08.10 in urban-planning
Bridges over the railway
Stumbled upon this 1979 proposal by Steven Holl to span over the Melbourne rail yards with a series of Ponte Vecchio inspired buildings-as-bridges. Kind of nice, post Federation Square, to remember the nature of the rail yards then, though half his bridges span from nowhere to nowhere in particular. The proposal is shown here together with another similar one for New York’s Highline – since made schmick by Diller, Scofio and Renfro.
01.08.10 in architects theory