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Emergency Shelter Exhibition

posted 05.13 in events.

Emergency Shelter Exhibition

It’s the day after … Your family is frightened, cold, and alone … What protection can you give them? This exhibition is to propose shelters that could not only protect people from rain and other elements in emergency...

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Habitat in town

posted 05.11 in news.

Two years after the Victorian bushfires, the christian charity Habitat for Humanity are to build 25 homes in Yea for bushfire-affected families. People will contribute a small deposit, and receive a ten year loan. The houses will be professionally...

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Christchurch Dreaming

posted 03.11 in news.

I’ve just woke up two hours early today from a dream that may have turned into a nightmare. I was living in Christchurch. Looking around me, a sizeable chunk of Melbourne’s architects were living there too. A few trams had made the...

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Emergency Architects in Haiti

posted 02.10 in news.

Yesterday I received an email from Emergency Architects Australia. The EAA’s mail, with minor edits. “Louise Cox from UNESCO requests for assistance next week… The Australian Institute of Architects is supporting UIA directs...

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