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13.12.07 Unbuilt - The winners of the Architecture Australia Unbuilt Prize for 2007 can now be viewed online. The overall winner was A Clinic for the Exhausted, by RMIT student Michael Spooner. I don't understand it, but as an exercise in drawing it is fairly mind-boggling. UNBUILT RESULTS 
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08.12.07 Cape Tank - The Age interviews Melbourne architect about his Robin Boyd award-winning house in Cape Shanck. "The tank was the first thing that Morgan drew when he sat down to design the house". THE AGE 08.12.07
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20.10.07 SOH - The Guardian (UK) had a major feature on Sydney's Opera House last week, as part of it's Great Modern Buildings series. It includes Utzon's first interview after his departure from the project, and a short homage by Thomas Keneally. GUARDIAN UK 15.10.07
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07.08.07 101 architects - Wallpaper* magazine has determined (by some secret* stylish method) just who the most exciting 101 architects on the planet are. Australia nets 4 most exciting architects, New Zealand unfortunately doesn't even appear on the exciting architect map. WALLPAPER* 101 (fully flash)
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01.08.07 CUB - I wasn't sure to put this link up - there have been enough false starts at Melbourne's pivotal CUB site to make one wonder. Hopefully DCM / NH / ARM / MNA will come up with a better result than that QV wind funnel down the street. THE AGE 26.07.07
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01.08.07 stamps - Australia Post, unlike anyone else in government, is celebrating modern architecture. They've released a set showing the following buildings: Melbourne’s ICI House, Canberra’s Australian Academy of Science, Perth’s Council House and the Sydney Opera House. Sure beats the current crop of sports stamps I still have to get through. THE STAMPS AUST POST PRESS RELEASE 
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16.07.07 Brutal - Graeme Gunn's Plumbers and Gasfitters Union Building in Carlton won the 25 year award at the RAIA Victorian awards on Friday night, resulting in this introduction from The Age. "A SEVERE concrete building that many would consider an eyesore in need of a coat of paint has been given an award..." The Harold Holt pool suffered was similarly maligned a year ago with: "It ain't pretty but its art". PHOTO THE AGE 14.07.07While we're at it, here are links to two other post-awards articles in The Age. THE AGE 14.07.07 on Southern Cross Station's win. THE AGE 15.07.07 on housing.
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10.07.07 Grater's back? - This is a development with many lives. Ivan Rijavec's 'cheesegrater' flats in Fitzroy are back, minus the grater if The Age has it right. I'm not sure their before and after pics are showing the same corner. Anyway, 134 flats have just received planning approval at VCAT. This is the second time the development has gained approval, last time there were 152 flats. Rijavec says of the City of Yarra's four year, $200,000 battle to stop the development, "There is such a political gutlessness to [Yarra Council's actions], and it is not unusual to Melbourne." THE AGE 10.07.07 RIJAVEC WEBSITE (not maintained)
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23.04.07 Glancey at the Southern X - The Guardian pays a visit to Nicholas Grimshaw's Southern Cross station in Melbourne. Jonthan Glancey thinks it does a mighty fine job linking the city to the docklands. "The station sits between the two and holds their hands." Not sure about that, better have another look I suppose. The article then swings all the way off to the Melbourne of the North, Manchester, where Denton Corker Marshall's Civil Justice Centre. "It has taken an Australian practice from Melbourne to show Britain what a modern city-centre court building can be: transparent and open, with a refreshing sense of occasion."  GUARDIAN 23.04.07 DCM GRIMSHAW [tip:DCM]
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22.04.07 Sievers auction - Wolfgang Sievers, 20th Century architectural and industrial photographer extraordinaire, will be auctioning off some of his better known photos for charity. This was a good excuse for the Age to interview the 94 year old Melburnian. Sievers will donate up to $1M from the auction to justice and civil liberties charities. quote:
"There's a funny little word called compassion... It's the sort of thing that the present Government hasn't heard about, but that is what drives me on, because I had a most fortunate and wonderful life and I think it's bloody well my job to pay back for that."
THE AGE 21.04.07 SLV photo library - search for "Sievers"
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11.04.07 Dimmer - This article by Rohan Sullivan of AP compares Utzon's failing eyesight to Beethoven going deaf. Jan Utzon responds to Philip Drew's assertion that, "even with assistance, Utzon's ability to make such fine judgments inevitably will be impaired, along with his capacity to convey his thoughts in drawings." DESERET NEWS 08.04.07A reader's letter to the Chicago Tribune about the issue noted that Georgia O'Keefe, going blind at 90, said: "I can see what I want to paint. The thing that makes you want to create is still there." CHICAGO TRIB 07.04.07
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10.04.07 Apartments out of town - It hasn't taken Melburnians long to get used to apartments. Karl Fender says in this article that the CBD and St Kilda Road had 1263 apartments in 1990. Now they have 20,000. Albeit most of them are dogboxes. Still, despite or because of the inner city market having dried up, builders are busy building apartments in the 'burbs. THE AGE 09.04.07
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08.04.07 Opera House sinks - Apparently, the only way to fixed the malfunctional opera theatre at the Sydney Opera House is to dig down. SMH 07.04.07
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17.03.07 a wet hearth - Paul Morgan's Cape Schanck house, with its teardrop water tank, is profiled in Metropolis magazine. METROPOLIS 14.03.07
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