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Black clad
The faces of Melbourne architecture. Wonder what the buildings look like.
VICTORIAN AWARDS 2011
28.06.11 in awards
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How Peter does it
A little interview by Igloo with Peter Maddison, host of Grand Designs Australia… and my old boss. Not that old.
18.04.11 in profiles video-clips
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Building Commission says..
The Building Commission of Victoria has small profiles on many careers within the building industry. They forgot architecture, but most of the rest are covered. Including the draftsperson:
12.08.09 in practice
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Pinós and Rem are full
The Carme Pinós lecture at Melbourne Uni tonight is full – but you’ll be able to see the vid here soon.
04.08.09 in talk
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State of Design
This starts this week – I have looked through the pickings and list most of the architecture-related ones below. Lots to do. Tried to post in the events forum but it broke under the strain (must fix that..)
ARM get gonged
Not unpredictably, Ashton Raggatt McDougall grabbed the Gold Logie at the Victorian Architecture Awards for the Melbourne Recital Centre. A good rundown of last night can be found, oddly enough, on the American Bustler website.
11.07.09 in awards
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Pod Won
The regrowth pod competition is all over, and the 35 entries whittled down to a shortlist of 7. I was one of five judges, which meant my personal fave didn’t make the shortlist. Such is life.
08.05.09 in competitions
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First Rate 4 kaput
For those many architects able to assess energy efficiency with First Rate version 4, your licence expires tomorrow. It’s 5 or nowt now. Seems they are trying to reduce the number of assessors by making everything expensive – like the required training course. One more external consultant to add to the list?
29.04.09 in sustainability practice
Bushfire homes service
Modelled on the 1950s The Age Small Home Service, the ®AIA with the Victorian Government Architect has just launched its Bushfire Homes Service. Registered AIA architects, working pro bono, are asked to submit intent by April 6th and ‘uncomplicated’ designs by April 13th. Details attached.
04.04.09 in practice
Regrowth Pod
Butterpaper is happy to publish for discussion architects’ work related to bushfire reconstruction. The first is from Melbourne practice 1:1 Architects, a director of which lives in Kinglake West.
14.02.09 in architects
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Hackford House
Greg Burgess’ 1982 Hackford house burnt down on the weekend, in Kornalla, Gippsland. According to RMIT’s Aardvark, which also has more pictures, the house won the 1983 RAIA Merit Award for Outstanding Architecture and the 1985 Robert Joseph Haddon Award.
11.02.09 in buildings
Hell fire
It’s been a hot, disturbing, and emotional weekend in Melbourne. Two large fires extending 80 kilometres along the rural northern flank of the city, have so far burnt up 210,000 hectares of land, 750 houses, and some small towns. Altogether, Victoria’s 2009 fires are known to have killed 181 people, most of them on Saturday. Many more are still missing as over 4,000 fire fighters continue to battle the fires.
New Government Architect
Victoria has a new government architect, Geoffrey London. Unknown in Melbourne, London has spent his academic career in Western Australia, where he was also Government Architect. Expect a change of flavour form outgoing Govarchitect, John Denton.
06.07.08 in architects
Brick veneration
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by anna @ 21.06.07 04:25 pm
hmm, have these people ever seen ANYTHING Howard Arkley did??
methinks not…
oh the beigeness
07.06.07 in weird-wonderful