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Sean Godsell’s Design Hub is on the verge of construction. After many failed schemes on the old C.U.B. site in Swanston Street, this one appears certain to proceed. According to 5th Estate , it, “will feature a “smart skin” – a translucent outer skin made up of over 16,000 sand blasted glass cells, some of which have photovoltaic collectors to harness solar power. This outer skin will control the building’s temperature by rotating with the sun’s movements, which will be tracked via a computer.”

04.07.09 in buildings 

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An Albert Park resident is having the usual problems trying to demolish his “bog standard” deco house, and has gone to the press with it as consultant fees top 150K. “When we’ve put extensions to [the council] previously they said they didn’t like architecture that mimicked previous periods… Then we bring in a contemporary design and they say it introduces new elements. I thought they were a bunch of megalomaniac tossers.”

04.07.09 in heritage planning

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In a rather sprawling article The Oz tries to join the dots between the public architectural cultures of Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne. Expert witnesses include Howard Tanner, Richard Johnson, Philip Cox, and Kim Dovey. Upshot: Brisbane is the young upstart, Melbourne’s got tickets on itself, and Sydney is resting comatose on its laurels.

04.07.09 in cities 

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Ryue Nishizawa has been terribly polite on his visit to Sydney to launch an installation (at the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation). In 2000, SANAA’s Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa were booted from the MCA competition that they’d won, but now they’re OK with that. MCA head Liz Ann Macgregor opened the show, and Nishizawa is saying nice things about Sam Marshall’s newish design for the MCA (3rd time lucky?). Nishizawa and Sejima must have gotten the MCA out of their systems after doing the New Museum in New York.

The exhibition starts today and runs until September 26th.

03.07.09 in architects galleries

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Flying around twitter… “Architecture is the most socially exclusive profession in the UK, ahead of law, medicine and accountancy, according to research by the Cabinet Office… Documents released by the Cabinet Office’s panel for Fair Access to the Professions show it costs more to qualify as an architect — over £60,000 — than any other profession. The panel also found newly qualified architects earned just over £20,000 a year, one of the lowest starting salaries in the professions.” BD Online

And yet they still line up. In an article last year, Building Design reported a large escalation in architecture enrolments from earlier in the decade. Not accompanied by an increase in resources though. Former Architectural Association professor Tim Ronalds comments , “this is factory farming and it is likely to produce tasteless chicken.”

30.06.09 in practice education

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Luna Park, the Queen Victoria Building and Sydney Town Hall finally get state heritage listings. They didn’t have them already?! Its making me wonder if they’ve gotten around to the Opera House and Harbour Bridge yet?

30.06.09 in heritage 

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I haven’t really taken much notice of car design since I built up a large collection of Matchbox cars and Daily Mail car annuals in the ’70s. My favorite was a Pininfarina – I can’t find a pic but here’s one of their concept cars from the 1970 Geneva Motor Show to give you an idea.

So I was suprised to be struck tonight by the front view of Iranian Emil Baddal’s concept Lamborgini – no more puffed up prototypes – angles are back!

27.06.09 in random-debris 

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Buy one of Glenn and Wendy’s houses on the Great Ocean Road here for $3M, or perhaps here for $2.2M. You’d better read this first though. Maserati not included.

Bit cheaper just to stay in one – Moonlight Escape (about $300 per night) and Moonlight Head (from $3,500 per night!).

Via James Spotting

26.06.09 in real-estate buildings

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Just heard this, a little late: Shortlisted teams for Melb Uni’s new architecture building competition have been in Melbourne this week to, “attend a briefing session, and as part of their visit they have each been invited to give short presentations as follows”:

Been & gone: Wednesday 24 June, 5.30-7pm: McBride Charles Ryan + DCM

Been & gone: Thursday 25 June, 5.30-7pm: Sauerbruch Hutton with NH Architecture + Koning Eizenberg with William J Mitchell and Gehry Technologies

Tonight: Friday 26 June, 5.30-7pm: John Wardle Architects and Office dA + Diller Scofidio + Renfro

“All presentations will take place in the Prince Philip Theatre and will be 45 minutes in duration.”

26.06.09 in competitions 

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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.

Via Rory

26.06.09 in video-clips 

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