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- building
conservation - a british site with a trove of articles of
interest to heritage architects. [07/04]
- docomomo
- international organization dedicated to the preservation of
modern architecture - the link goes to the french site - there
are many others. [07/04]
- international
council on monuments and sites - dedicated to the conservation
of the world's historic monuments and sites. [07/04]
- WHC UNESCO
- the United Nations site for World Heritage. A trove of information,
the site includes the Exhibition Building in Melbourne, and the
earthquake damaged Iranian city of Bam. [03/05]
- art
deco society (melbourne) - a big group with a good
site that includes inofrmation on about 20 buildings. [07/04]
- art
deco society of nsw - site with an interest in buildings of
the period, and a well-stocked links page. [07/04]
- docomomo
australia - the local offshoot of the Parisian organisation
whose mission is to, "draw attention to the plight of some
of the pioneering early modern buildings which were decaying for
lack of a current use." [03/05]
- historic
auckland - click on "places" to go to the database
of registered buildings. [03/05]
- melbourne
mansions database - Dr Miles Lewis' text database of old melbourne
mansions. [07/04]
- national
trust of NSW - a busy site with lots of event listings. [07/04]
- twentieth
century heritage society of NSW - focusses on early 20th Century
buildings in Sydney. Lots of photos and links and a few PDF downloads.[03/06]
- walking
melbourne - a large visual database of Melbourne's finest
CBD buildings, many demolished. The site also has a lively forum. [03/06]
- Western
Australian State Library - list of archival items available
in the subject areas of architecture, built environment and heritage.
It includes cinemas and state housing. [07/04]
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20.09.07 Manchester 1 Melbourne 1 - This article bemoans the destruction of Manchester's modern buildings of the 1960s and 70s. One example caught the eye: "Mosley Street, corner of York Street, back of Piccadilly Plaza: glorious granite clad, flush glazed bank building (originally Williams Deacon’s HQ) by H S Fairhurst 1965. The only office in Manchester with trees on the roof. Solid, fit, handsome, and just turned forty. Dropped, demolished, gone. A hole in the ground about to be replaced by a new office building designed by the same people who brought us the Civil Justice Centre, Melbourne architects Denton Corker Marshall." To have a look at the buildings of Manchester, try this site: CUBE MANCHESTER CONFIDENTIAL 31.08.07
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20.09.07 Canberra Listing? - The National Capital Authority is trying to get the whole city heritage-listed, that's 12,000 hectares. The Canberra Times says that, "the whole setting envisaged by architect Walter Burley Griffin [is] being considered for nomination." Lovell Chen are currently working on the heritage report. CANBERRA TIMES 14.09.07
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22.06.07 Bye to Boyd II? - The Robin Boyd Foundation is unable to secure long term funding for the Boyd House in Walsh Street, South Yarra, Melbourne. It will be auctioned in July. Poop. MORE
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17.03.07 Towers - In Southern China, Kaiping's peculiar watch towers, the Diaolou, have been nominated for the 2007 World Heritage List (being decided upon by UNESCO in New Zealand in June). Locals are starting to look at them in a new light. STANDARD 10.03.07 KAIPING DAIOLOU (Chinese) WORLD HERITAGE LIST 
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13.12.06 POOL EFFORT - Brutalism lovers pencil it in - there is a rally on Sunday to save Harold Holt. Not the drowned PM, but the Borland and Jackson designed pool in Glen Iris. More about the rally in this flyer: RALLY FLYER More about the issue in this forum post: BUTTERPAPER FORUMS
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13.12.06 Yale Khan - According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, Nathaniel Kahn's film about his dad Louis was well timed. It indirectly led to $44M being spent to upgrade the Yale University Art Gallery (1951-53), which was starting to get rather tired. There is a lot going on in the building. Jeffry Kieffer, writing in Archtecture Week, once said, "The Yale University Art Gallery embodies nearly every architectonic theme or device that Kahn returned to in his later architectural production." Over the last 50 years though, the building suffered at the hands of lesser mortals. The Polshek Partnership has done a good job restoring the building, according to Nicolai Ouroussoff in the New York Times: "Years of callous alterations have now been reversed, restoring... elements in all their glory." PHILLY INQUIRER 13.12.06 ARCHITECTURE WEEK 07.10.02 NYT 11.12.06 POLSHEK PARTNERSHIPThe New York Times article goes on to say that the nearby Paul Rudolph Art and Architecture School is about to be restored by Charles Gwathmey. Though this hardly makes up for the demolition of the nearby cor-ten clad Veterans Memorial Coliseum (Kevin Roche 1970-72) and the partial demolition in New Haven of Marcel Bruer's Pirelli Building to make way for... 150 car parks for IKEA!@#$ RUDOLPH ART & ARCH PICS GWATHMEY SIEGEL VETERANS MEMORIAL PICS ROCHE DINKELOO IKEA SHAME PIC BEFORE IKEA BREUER PICSThough perhaps Aussies are to blame too - Westfield owns the site and the Breuer building. CT BUSINESS 11.11.02
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31.10.06 Brutal vid - The Londonist points us towards this slideshow over on cashed up You Tube. "Out of Time" sung to a series of beautifully brutalist London buildings, and cars? OUT OF TIME
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27.10.06 Preservatives - An Edward Larrabee Barnes prefab home, built in an aircraft factory in 1949, has been saved. Now what to do with it... "The house could be a bed and breakfast or an office for an architect or designer", suggests a local expert. METROPOLIS 11.10.06
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23.10.06 Brunswick green? - London's Brunswick Centre, which lurks somewhere near Russell Square in Bloomsbury, was a megastructural brutalist shopping centre. It still is, though now its been painted. The architect, Patrick Hodgkinson, isn't disappointed at all though. quote:
"I didn't hold with new brutalism, myself. I just prayed for the day we would be able to paint it... we did specify that the concrete would be painted. It was only after I left in 1970 that they decided not to paint it. I thought, 'That's damned stupid.' I knew that that concrete, which was very cheap, would never stay fair-faced. And of course, after a few years it started getting filthy."
GUARDIAN 23.10.06Also in London, Fortress House (1950) on Saville Row, a rather sombre classical pile, may be rescued from the bulldozer by a developer and a famous hotelier. TIMES 23.10.06 RISKY BUILDINGS
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05.10.06 Designs for Sydney - The Sydney Opera House has just announced that it has commenced a worldwide search for entries to the 1956 competition famously won by a young Jorn Utzon. Details HERE .
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