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The About Face 2010 entries are now online for peer review.
The About Face Award is Think Brick Australia’s invitation-only design ideas competition intended to encourage innovative Australian architects to push the boundaries of traditional brick design and present original ways of using brick in a contemporary environment.
Six leading architects have CONTINUE READING
I’m going to be controversial: refurbish the outside of Hamer Hall all you like, but don’t touch the internal acoustics!
A few months ago I saw Branford Marsalis play here and was absolutely astounded: the acoustics were so good even the Branford and his band couldn’t stop giggling and commenting on CONTINUE READING
Recently the American Institute of Architects and its Committee on the Environment announced the 10 best green buildings completed in the past year.
What would be Australia’s top 10 greenest buildings? Are we matching it for the Americans? Ahead of them? or do we still have a long way to go?
Last CONTINUE READING
So, taking a more reflective view of this space we have created, do the proliferation of online blogs and other internet commentary spaces help or hinder the evolution of both architecture and the built form?
Linda Bennett, of Archi-Ninja, believes that the proliferation of online blogs and comment is a good CONTINUE READING
Everyday in Australia – and no doubt around the world – there is an on-going debate about updating buildings built in a by-gone era. On one side of the debate sits the heritage and history arguments, and on the other side, it is argued that modern and sustainable should be CONTINUE READING
What started as a tribute to Michael Jackson has become a whole new way of displaying bricks. As recently reported in the Cumberland Courier, Austral Bricks have created another piece of brick art, this time in honour of the recently postponed visit by US President Barack Obama.
The final product is CONTINUE READING
Everyone remembers the eye-catching and courageous architecture used in Beijing for the 2008 Olympics; this article shows ten other eye-catching and courageous examples from Europe.
What do we make of modern architecture? Will we be marvelling this period of creativity and flare for generations, or will we cringe at our enthusiasm CONTINUE READING
Interesting article in Friday & Saturday’s Review section of the AFR; Robert Bevan, an architecture and design writer for the AFR, looks at the winning design for Sydney’s Barangaroo place. He’s quite critical of both the process and the outcome at times, but also makes some broad comments about the CONTINUE READING
In defence of developers, the quote “…a dumb developer dominated and dictated (model)…” in this article is probably a bit harsh: everyone (or perhaps more specifically, every business) has a number of goals that they try to achieve in conducting their day-to-day affairs, and for developers, one of those goals CONTINUE READING
Interesting article – if you overlook the Lleyton Hewitt analogy – on the population issues that confront Australia. There is now considerable discussion (ie for & against), of this issue and increasingly over the past 5 years it has led to, arguably for the first time since Australian cities were CONTINUE READING