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BOYD HOUSE BICKERING
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28.07.02
It's a dead famous architect's own home, in Camberwell,
Melbourne. The present owner of the house wants to bowl the back extension
but everyone else, except her architectural advisor, seems to be against
the idea. The Heritage Council this month refused her permission to
proceed with the demolition.
The owner said that she had no
idea that it was Boyd's house when she bought it in 1973, and
it had always been her intention to demolish and rebuild. Maria Rajendran
also argued that it was impossible to tell which parts of the house
were original and which had been altered. These points were rejected
by Tara Ferrier, who lived in the house from 1959 to 1973. Ferrier
said
that no structural alterations were ever made to the house, and the
Boyd name was used to sell it. "There was no alteration to Robin
Boyd's ideal... To see photos of the house in a state of disrepair
is distressing to say the least, let alone seeing Ms Rajendran's incongruous
addition to the back of the house."
The Victorian Heritage Register makes a point
of mentioning
the alterations and their importance. "The house through its
alteration is important in that it demonstrates the architectural
development of Robin Boyd, from the early period of his career in
the 1940s when he expounded his Theories on 'Victorian Regionalism',
to the emerging 'internationalism' of the 1950s."
Earlier this year, the Victorian Supreme Court ordered
Rajendran to replace parts of the extension she had demolished in
1999. The roof had been removed and the interior gutted without a
permit. After this ruling the owner said, "if the building is
of such state and national importance then the state should own it."
Not a bad idea.
ADDRESS 664-666 RIVERSDALE ROAD CAMBERWELL
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SAD PHOTOS TAKEN IN 2001 ABC
| UTZON DEFINITELY NOT
COMING, NO REALLY |
24.07.02
The woman's weekly has this week stated that Joern
Utzon will not be coming to have a look at the Opera House. Well
that's a surprise. Reported in the
age (24 July).
| NEWS
IN THE MAKING 11.07.02 |
Joern Utzon said it on the ABC's exclusive
interview on TV the other night - that he wasn't returning to Sydney
because his health wasn't up to it, he could only fly for "one
hour half". The interviewer repeated
the question several times using different phrasing. Finally this:
ABC :
But you might go back to Sydney maybe?
JOERN UTZON: Yes, just put that in, because that will stop
people from asking about it.
Cheekily the ABC took the first four answers and put them in the
evening TV interview.
They put the last answer alone into the morning Radio
interview. Confusion in the making...
The Australian Associated Press compressed the whole story into
a news byte : Opera
House architect may return . Poor 84 year old Joern will not
hear the end of it now.
| ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION
WITH STRINGS ATTACHED 06.02 |
<<
What, though, might the four short-listed entrants be asked
to design? Who will judge, and on what criteria? What, indeed, might
a winning scheme offer? Impeccably proportioned plastic windows?
Solar-powered lip-sewing carrels? Postmodern razor wire? >>
ELIZABETH FARRELLY DISSECTS THE DEPARTMENT OF IMMIGRATION DETENTION
CENTRE DESIGN COMPETITION, AND IDEALS IN ARCHITECTURE, IN THE SYDNEY
MORNING HERALD 18 06 02
THE SHORTLISTED ARCHITECTS
THE
WINNER OF THE CHRISTMAS ISLAND DETENTION CENTRE DESIGN COMPETITION
THE
BRIEF JUNE 11 2002
NEXT STOP VENICE
09.06.02
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This year's
Venice Biennale will be aranged a little differently to the norm.
Rather than selecting a bunch of architects to exhibit, a bunch of
projects will be selected. This means that there will be a hell of
a lot of architects exhibiting, including a first class cabin full
from Australia.
The NEXT exhibition will focus on work that is in the process
of going up. No blobby cybertecture here. So DCM will be there
with the Stonehenge Visitors Centre, Lab with Federation Square,
Wood Marsh with Mirvac Tower V. Architekbüro Bolles
+ Wilson will exhibit the Biblioteca Europea di informazione e
cultura in Milan. Tom Kovac is mysteriously listed in the education
buildings category for the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
- I'm sure that's already there. ARM will be there with the
Melbourne Shrine of Remembrance (the undercroft I presume).Other entries
of possible interest could be 12 architects exhibiting their individual
projects for the commune at the Great Wall of China, and SOM's
work on the World Trade Centre rebuilding in New York.
If you're going you should start rowing soon, the event begins on
September 8 and finishes on November 3.
VENICE
BIENNALE - NEXT (IT HATES NETSCAPE)
BUTTERPAPER AUSTRALIAN ARCHITECTS
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Re: The ABC interviews Utzon at his home in Majorca about his return
to the project. << ABC you might go
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stop people from asking about it. >> (ABC
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architectural clones smear Delhi landscape
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< <After a bathroom tiled structure came up on the Outer
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public image of the city, >> (Times
of India 07.07.02)
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named for Spencer St job
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(AGE 15.06.02)
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