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australia
abc
- the web accompaniment to the abc TV progamme "In the mind
of the architect" with interviews and virtual tours. [05.05]
architecture australia
- this magazine has a searchable online archive of issues
covering many aspects of architecture in Australia. [05.05]
australian consulting architects
- not much on this website. It has a 'find an architect' seach
engine. The engine informed me that no architects would be
interested in doing a house extension under $200,000 in Melbourne.[05.05]
Architectue
Week this article in 2002 features Australian architecture,
including an illustrated extract of George Michell and John
Gollings book, New Australian Style. [05.05]
architecture.com.au
- the RAIA's database of award-winning australian architecture
can be found within the institute's site. [05.05]
butterpaper
- you're soaking in it.
comfort zone
- a Radio National programme, available to listen to, focussing
on design and landscape. As of 2005 this programme has been
eaten up by Saturday
Breakfast. The last hour is still design oriented. [05.05]
diva
- monash university visual arts photo libraries - includes
Melbourne architecture (19th and 20th centuries) and Sydney
architecture. [05.05]
key centre for architectural
sociology - no holds barred articles about australian
architecture and architectural education. [05.05]
our
houses - The histories
of Australian homes through the decades. [05.05]
Royal Institute
of Australian Architects - portal for the institute. [05.05]
signs
from the dreaming - an ABC site that's a good introduction
to the aboriginal dreamtime, with a section on its significance
to understanding land.
Towering
ambitions - newspaper article
about office block modernism in Australia - its history and
the public perception. (SMH 23.04.02) [05.05]
technology
in australia 1788-1988 -
Chapter 6 - Construction and Building, by Sir John Holland.
[05.05]
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canberra,
ACT
canberra
house - a good site examining housing styles, architects
and architecture through the century. [05.05]
an
ideal city - an ANU student project and online exhibition,
concerning the story of Canberra and the designs of
Burley Griffin and Mahoney. [05.05]
canberra biennial
- a new event dedicated to architecture and design.
[05.05]
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melbourne,
victoria
aardvark
- RMIT guide to Melbourne architecture of the '90s -
well stocked with maps, photos and profiles.[02/05]
art deco society
- a big group with a good site that includes inofrmation
on about 20 buildings, and has an events diary. [02/05]
Buildings
of St Kilda - Richard Pearson surveys the buildings
of Melbourne's liveliest seaside suburb. [12/05]
Deans Lecture
Series - Melbourne University Faculty
of Architecture Building and Planning - a continuing
series. All lectures start around 6.15pm and are usually
free. Check the website for latest bookings. [02/05]
l'erma
- a Melboune-centric site with photos of projects in
construction in 1999. [02/05]
melbourne
mansions database - Dr Miles Lewis' text database
of old melbourne mansions. [02/05]
streetescape
- In 2000 Andrew Garton swung his camera to take a look
at these rapidly changing Melbourne Streets: Lygon,
Brunswick and Smith. The movie doesn't seem to work.
[02/05]
virtual
exhibition - a web based exhibition of University
of Melbourne 5th year students afew years back. [02/05]
the
architects - a radio show on 3RRR 102.7FM hosted
by Stuart Harrison and Simon Knott. Tuesdays at 7pm.
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sydney,
new south wales
art deco society
of nsw - site with an interest in buildings of the
period, and a well-stocked links page.
building
bookshop - this shop in Surry Hills bookshop puts
on architecture talks towards the end of most months.
[05/05]
national
trust of NSW - a busy site with lots of event listings.
RAIA NSW
- the architects institute site has plenty of info on
institute events about town. [05/05] |
 SAW
(sydney architecture walks) - back on with four walks,
including 'Sydney', 'Harbourings' and 'Utzon'. Leaving
from the Museum of Sydney. $20/15. The site also has local
event information. |
 slide
night - an occasional
slide night at the Spanish Bar in Sydney. Check the
website for future events. Bit quiet in '05. [05/05] |
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summit
- while in Sydney, check out the view from the top of
Seidler's Australia Square tower. This bar / restaurant
revolves about once every 2 hours. [01/03]
sydney scrapers
- a small collection of pics of some tall buildings
in Sydney (obscure.co.nz)
twentieth
century heritage society of NSW - focusses on early
20th Century buildings in Sydney. The site has a downloadable
PDF of buildings of note. [04/04]
University
of Sydney - the Faculty
of Architecture has regular Thursday night talks, which
might be found here.
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brisbane,
queensland
digilib
- queensland architectural image database.[LINK
FIXED 01/02]
urban brisbane
- photographs of Brisbane buildings, and a schedule of
new buildings on the way. A very new site.
queensland
picture theatres database - historic cinemas database,
with some photos. This is a work in progress.
[01/02]
Waterfront's
radical plan - news - Townsville to go under the knife.
(Townsville Bulletin 24.09.03)
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adelaide,
south australia
radical
interventions - Here's a profile of Danvers Schulz
Holland, winners of a UNESCO Award of Merit for conservation.
Ron Danvers is interviewed and has plenty to say about
too precious Adelaide: "We need to get life back
in the city. If we have to trade off a bit of heritage
dogma, so be it." (Adelaide Review Feb 2004)
Urban
Ecology - Christie Walk - Adelaide has a sustainable
townhouse devlopment in its midst that looks to be worth
a walk through - they have tours every fortnight. Read
all about Christie Walk here. Jan Gehl calls it 'highly
inspirational' so it must be OK.
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perth,
western australia
abc
- a small photo archive of perth buildings worth saving.
Fading
Events and Places - an Architecture Australia review
of an exhibition examining the architecture of the 1962
Commeonwealth Games in Perth. [04/04]
mulholland
- a couple of pages of buildings in the CBD, with commentary.
Philip
Kirke - an architect writes about his experiences
working for the remote Martu communities of Western
Australia. An absorbing read. Go straight to the PDF
file here,
or get to it via this
web page at www.ghd.com.au.
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Meet
a Day in the life of the new Dili
- Re: East Timor. Architect Norman Day's mission to Dili, RMIT
architecture degree course now available in East Timor.
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| marshall
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and modern house construction on the Marshall Islands -
Charles Sturt University page examining traditional Marshallese
building.[11/02] |
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| nauru |
Restoring
an island's paradise Re: Nauru, rehabilitating the moonscape.
(AGE 03.11.01)
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| new caledonia |
| The
Tjibaou Culture Centre Review by Auckland professor Mike
Austin of Renzo Piano's contribution to (and borrowings from)
architecture in the pacific.[PANDER
2.0] |
new zealand |
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BEACH
HOUSE IN NORTHLAND, NEW ZEALAND.
JILL SHEPHERD ARCHITECT WITH SVB.
PHOTOS A. SILLS
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architecturenz
- a gallery of New Zealand architecture, run by the New
Zealand Institute of Architects. [02/05]
Architectural
Feasts & Remnants of Colonial Consumption
- An essay by Sarah Treadwell, including discussion of hakari
stages (maori food platforms). These structures were up to
90 feet high and up to two miles long.[PANDER
2.0]
Putting the art in architecture
New Zealand National Awards announcements. (NZ
Herald 11.04.02)
In
New Zealand - here's an article by a kiwi expat explaining
to readers that New Zealanders live in timber houses which
can be picked up and moved. Includes photos of timber houses.
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auckland
auckland
city libraries - large searchable collection of
historic auckland photographs.
britomart
- large and long awaited transport station currently
being constructed in downtown auckland.[11/02]
historic
auckland - click on "places" to go to
the database of registered buildings.
skyscrapers.com
- profiles of 75 Auckland buildings.
tank
farm project - the redevelopment of a massive petrochemical
and industrial area in Auckland's docklands.
napier
art
deco napier - a photo gallery of some of Napier's
many art deco buildings built after the 1931 earthquake.
wellington
architectural
centre - discussion and site tours in the Wellington
area.[09/04]
heritage
building inventory - a huge Wellington City Council
site that with good descriptions and profiles of buildings
[includes modern].
NZ
Centennial Exhibition - a large collection of film
clips showing the construction of the in Wellington
from 1939 to 1940 can be viewed at the nzhistory.net.nz
site. Spooky. Requires the REAL
plug-in.
dunedin
Visit
Dunedin - Dunedin was once the biggest city in New
Zealand. You can tell this from the large number of
fine old buildings.
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02.10.07 Not Remotely Aloof - The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Sunday's Sydney Architecture Festival was an attempt to recast architects in the eyes of the public... "Behind the festival lies the admission that architects need to improve their image. Often seen as remote and aloof, their ideas and designs shape our urban landscape." The article then goes on to discuss the history of Martin Place. SMH 01.10.07 Sydney Architecture Fetsival SYDNEY ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL(October 1st only) Could it really be a festival if it was on a Monday?
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02.10.07 Lifestyles of the rich and famous... - Melbourne architect Omiros Emmanouilides has repatriated $116,540.44 to Victoria after winning a 3.5 year dispute over unpaid fees with Gold Coaster Mimi Macpherson (related to the under garment model). GOLD COAST 28.09.07 OMIROS
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02.10.07 Significant vacancy - Apparently Crown is wanting to quietly sneak up another 27 level hotel next to the casino, and is bypassing the normal procedures (ie planning) in its eagerness. Only projects of state significance are meant to zigzag around planning, but luckily this IS significant. "Crown chief executive David Courtney says the project is significant to the state because Melbourne already hosts world-class international conventions and more hotel rooms are needed." THE AGE 01.10.07
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19.09.07 Us vs. Them - Norman Lebrecht, writing for Bloomberg.com, recently described the "art wars" between Sydney and Melbourne. According to Lebrecht, most of Melbourne's arts precinct was built as a response to Sydney's new Opera House, but was less of a success. "Melbourne, in the year of the opera's opening, established a riverside arts center with a 120-meter-high spire and, a decade later, a neighboring concert hall, which looks from the outside like a multistory[sic] parking lot and from the inside like a concrete barn." The Arts Centre's own history (here as a PDF ) states that Roy Grounds masterplanning was approved 1960, the National Gallery of Victoria opened in 1968, and that the theatres were delayed a few years because of problems with the mud (the Arts Centre unfortunately desrcibes these as "geographic difficulties"). BLOOMBERG 17.09.07 HAMER HALL  In other news recently to hand... the Victorian State government is to spend $5M investigating ways to fix the tangle of arterial roads, buildings and levels that characterises the centre of the arts precincy. AUSTRALIAN 06.09.07 
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09.08.07 Wolfgang Sievers - The much respected photographer of industry and architecture died on Tuesday at the age of 93, in Melbourne. THE AGE 09.08.07 Reacquaint yourself with his work at PICTURE AUSTRALIA (just pop "Sievers" into the search box). Sievers was in the news earlier this year for donating hundreds of his photos, worth up to $1M, to raise money for social justice and civil liberties charities. Butterpaper.com thanks Sievers for his assistance last year during the brief campaign to save the Fitzroy Gardens gents. Sievers took the original photos of the building in 1957. AA MAY 2006
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06.08.07 Unbuilt - There are so many architects doing really good unbuilt architecture that AA magazine runs a competition for them. Save those designs from the silverfish. AA UNBUILT
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30.06.07 Wardle on Pitt - The SMH has an article about the $600M Westfiled development around Centrepoint Tower, John Wardle's first really really big building. SMH 30.06.07 
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02.06.07 NZ awards - This year's NZIA award winners are online now. The awards were held last week. Busy modernists Fearon Hay did pretty well, winning at least three awards, one for renovations to a 1973 Ron Sang house. NZIA AWARDS FEARON HAY
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19.05.07 Marc Newson in 1st class - Once a Sydney surfie, now a European style-mongerer, Marc Newson is apparently the designer to turn Qantas from dowdy to dandy. Step number one was to transform the 1st class lounges, which he's just opened. Sydney's refit was over $20M (and included a lot of Newson tableware). THE AGE 13.05.07 MARC NEWSON For an update on the man's career, check this Business Week article from December 2006. 
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16.05.07 Harry and Ian's pool - Seidler's Ultimo Aquatic Centre (now Ian Thorpe Aquatic Centre) is just about complete. Harry designed it in 2001 and apparently construction has been a little slow. SEIDLER PROJECT PAGE SMH 13.05.07
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auckland - there's new gloss
on the waterfront. Bring your sunnies.
REVIEW
@ butterpaper
birrarung
marr - melbourne's latest and last city park.REVIEW
@ butterpaper
04.07.03
For those wondering
how much Melbourne's Fed Square costs, now, try this link
to the auditor general's report of May 2003 (PDF), suggesting
costs have gone up to $473M. This figure is contested by the
state government. AUDIT
14.06.03 A
combination of low interest rates, government grants and the
desire for a north facing lounge has seen a surge in Sydney
house renovations and their square metre rates. SMH
07.04.03 Frank Gehry
was a Pritzker Juror this year and had this to say about the
winner. "Utzon made a building well ahead of its time,
far ahead of available technology, and he persevered through
extraordinary malicious publicity and negative criticism to
build a building that changed the image of an entire country."
PRITZKER
05.03.03
The ABC tries to make a mountain out of a rammed earth
wall as an RAIA award goes to a building which partially
collapsed soon after it opened. It made the TV news last night.
[tip: AW]
ABC
NEWS
RAIA
AWARDS CENTRAL QLD
20.01.03
The weekend's disastrous firestorms in Canberra destroyed
402 houses [ABC images].
The Master Builder's Association and the Real Estate industry
are already on
hand coordinating interstate support. Where is the RAIA?
27.11.02
Here's a quick glimpse of the Toyko Designers Block held in
October.
USEFULANDAGREEABLE
Here are the Australian exhibits: HYBRID
OBJECTS. [Link tip: LC]
25.10.02
Crikey. The world's largest structure
is proposed for Buronga, NSW. It's a solar turbine tower and
it's HUGE. [Tip from KH]
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