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Error-riddled history book withdrawn
Re: Brisbane. Local architecture book withdrawn due to errors.
(Sunday Mail 31.08.03)

Workplace accident kills architect
Re: Port Macquarie NSW. Measure up accident.
(Port Macquarie News 28.08.03)

New suburbia: crowded land of the giants
Re: Suburbia. The McMansion and the Inverse Donut Effect. "Most of the popular builders offer six or more facades that can be fitted to the same interior. You can whack on faux French Provincial, Tuscan, Georgian, Federation, Victoriana, Colonial, American Colonial, Australian traditional or modern."
(SMH 26.08.03)

Portrait of Melbourne at 2am: down and out
Re: Melbourne CBD. Without shelter.
(Age 24.08.03)

Obituary: Di Stewart
Re: Auckland. Architectural historian Di Stewart dies aged 57.
(NZH 23.08.03)

Rush to demolish 10 village homes
Re: Cambridge WA. Demolitions aplenty as Empire Games village threatened with heritage listing.
(Post 23.08.03)

Too cool
Re: Appliances. Internet fridges and robot vacuums not exciting public.
(SMH 21.08.03)

Olympics: Athens aiming for modern capital as legacy
Re: Athens. Architectural "signature" by Santiago Calatrava being constructed after doubts.
(NZH 19.08.03)

Get back on the rollercoaster
Re: Sydney. Luna Park revamp, Hassell do it kitsch.
(SMH 19.08.03)


Sartor backs people power over developers
Re: Sydney. Rockdale MP (ex Lord Mayor) gets tough on shonky planning deals and bad architecture.
(SMH 17.08.03)


Graffiti goes upmarket
Re: Melbourne stencilling. The glut of stencil art around Melbourne's laneways is, according to one stenciller, "a backlash against boring surroundings." Heritage buildings are not boring apparently so don't get targetted.
(Age 16.08.03)


The best laid plans?
Re: Victoria, VCAT. The planning appeal tribunal and those who hate it.
(Age 14.08.03)


Tear down my shack
Re: Venice Biennale. Cox lets loose at critics of his 1988 temporary pavilion, and suggests it be pulled down.
(Age 11.08.03)


Deal on professional indemnity cap
Re: Australia. Indemnity insurance insanity may end soon with caps on liability.
(OZ 07.08.03)


Row reignites over Kew Cottages sale
Re: Melbourne. Government plans to make the Kew Cottages development shorter greeted with scepticism.
(AGE 05.08.03)

Plans for 'greener' Games village
Re: Melbourne. Government plans to make the Royal Park Commonwealth Games Village "greener" but taller greeted with scepticism.
(AGE 05.08.03)


Award-winning home gets back to basics

Re: Auckland. Crosson Clarke Architects win Home and Entertaining Home of the Year Award (no pic).
(Ashburton Guardian 02.08.03)


Developer refuses to pay $1m community levy
Re: Sydney. Developer flexes muscle, hides wallet.
(SMH 02.08.03)


Trade Center Arguments Fade, and a Single Vision Is Emerging
Re: WTC. Santiago Calatrava takes the Port Authority building.
(Yahoo 01.08.03)

High-rise project result of 'cosy' deal
Re: Jolimont, Melbourne. The surprise highrise ends up at VCAT.
(AGE 29.7.03)

Art Deco building gets a stay of execution - for now
Re: West Melbourne. Fender building loses at VCAT.
(AGE 29.7.03)

Designers create centrepiece exhibition for Prague Quadrennial
Re: Dorita Hannah, Prague Quadrennial. Massey Uni associate professor heads development of mulisensory "sceno-architectural" centrepiece.
(Massey News 28.07.03)

Beauty under threat from land grabs
Re: Auckland sprawl, RMA, natural landscape studies. "It is the heritage of New Zealanders to live in scenic settings" - well that's one way of looking at the rapid rolling out of lifestyle blocks over the city's outskirts.
(NZH 27.7.03)


Shape up or ship out?
Re: The pros and cons of renovating and selling up, with up to date figures for Sydney.
(SMH 23.7.03)

Same person lit the 14 CBD fires say police
Re: Second floor of Guardian Trust building (by Gummer and Ford) bunt out on arson spree.
(NZH 21.7.03)

2003 NSW chapter architecture award winners
Re: Winners list.
(SMH 20.7.03)

WTC competition draws 5,200 entries
Re: New York WTC memorial.
(SMH 18.7.03)

Tutu didn't have a leg to stand on, but now . . .
Re: Harry Seidler, tutu designer. "At the age of 80, I'm becoming a visual artist. This could be my rebirth."
(SMH 13.7.03)

Vatican ponders calls to beatify 'God's architect'
Re: Antoni Gaudi's sainthood gets closer.
(AGE 12.7.03)

Gone with the wind
Re: Oz film about Gropius' wife Alma gets one showing then goes straight to DVD.
(AGE 10.7.03)

Hotel suite threatens historic views: trust
Re: Cox Richardson- designed penthouse at Millers Point in Sydney obstructs old viewlines causing grief.
(SMH 9.7.03)

Paint rivals mix it up in off-white colour clash
Re: Dulux and Resene to fight it out in court over "spanish white" and "pearl lusta". Maybe they should just go at one another with paint guns.
(NZ HERALD 5.7.03)

Ken Loach among winners of lucrative Japan Arts prize
Re: And so is Rem Koolhaas, who wins the praemium Imperiale for architecture.
(JAPAN TODAY 3.7.03)

Utopia rising
Re: Moora Moora cohousing.
(AGE 3.7.03) Tip KH



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