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- CommentAuthorbrunotautinstitute
- CommentTimeSep 14th 2010
Inspired by Venice 2010 Piazzasalone a road trip exploring Australia, cars and architecture.
...and what better place to start than our own pioneering iconic building. -
- CommentAuthorinfo
- CommentTimeSep 15th 2010
marxican alternative. -
- CommentAuthorbrunotautinstitute
- CommentTimeSep 15th 2010
Looks like a Foord Taurus to me. An interesting car a few of which were sold in Australia. The third generation Taurus introduced a design treatment which appeared to borrow heavily from the work of Salvador Dali in his soft clock phase. They looked like they were melting. No one liked them unfortunately. The idea is getting a re-run on a block of flats in StKilda though.
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- CommentAuthorinfo
- CommentTimeSep 15th 2010
Ford Probe, a favourite with proctologists in the 90s. Likes to wear boots. -
- CommentAuthorbrunotautinstitute
- CommentTimeSep 15th 2010
Ford Probe.......you'd think they'd have seen that one coming wouldn't you.
Time was when in the USA word association linked probe with space with an American in command. Then along came Eric Cartman.
Still most self respecting architects wouldn't be seen dead in a Ford.
http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?frbg=13995483&fctN=facet_frbrgroupid&fctV=13995483&frbg=&dum=true&vl(1UI0)=contains&vid=MAIN&srt=rank&indx=1&tab=default_tab&vl(11480836UI1)=all_items&doc=SLV_VOYAGER1695559&vl(10247183UI0)=any&ct=display&scp.scps=scope%3A(SLV_DIGITOOL)%2Cscope%3A(SLVPRIMO)&vl(freeText0)=peter wille robin boyd own house&fn=search&mode=Basic
With luck this link will take you to the back of Walsh Street and let you see Robin's DS and Patricia's Fiat 500. God they were cool. -
- CommentAuthorbrunotautinstitute
- CommentTimeSep 15th 2010
Didn't work did it.
When you get to the State library search page just add to peter (already there) wille robin boyd own house.
If you are unaware of the Peter Wille collection just browse around it a bit. -
- CommentAuthorinfo
- CommentTimeSep 15th 2010 edited
Does anyone care what Robin BoyD drove.
He didn't. He drove a rambler bruno. -
- CommentAuthorbrunotautinstitute
- CommentTimeSep 16th 2010
Interesting you should ask info. Probably just seduced by celebrity I suppose.
What interests me about Robin Boyd's cars is the progression from the early optimism of a second hand Standard 8 at Riversdale Road through a series of Citroen DS which, despite their mechanical problems projected an air of European sophistication to, if Geoffrey Serle has his facts right, at Frederick Romberg's suggestion, a Studebaker Hawk with dodgy airconditioning and ending with a Dodge Phoenix hardtop and increasing frustration and despair with the progress of his professional career.
I'm unaware of the Rambler but I'll take your word for it.
I drive a Camry myself and keep a picture of an FJ Holden in my carport.
Don't know what those guys at Merchant Builders were thinking about but if you put a real car in there you just can't open the doors. -
- CommentAuthorinfo
- CommentTimeSep 16th 2010
As if you'd take a knob like Romberg's advice on a car? You just explained why his career went down the toilet. If he was smart he would have driven a Brougham to go with his suits. -
- CommentAuthorbrunotautinstitute
- CommentTimeSep 21st 2010
Well it just shows you can't be too careful choosing your partners.
Now just south of the border down Marxico way you can find the Murray Valley Private Hospital.
When the photo below was taken it was still the Clyde Cameron College, a nest of trade unionism planted by the Whitlam Government which was finally stamped out by John Howard in the early 90's.
The now Murray Valley Private Hospital was designed by Architects Group. Now these were partners you might want to have, Kevin "Tubby" Borland, former communist, mate of Bob Hawke and Citroen driver, Osrick Spence, retired Commonwealth Bank manager/architect, Phillip Cohen, gun detailer and nice bloke and Max May, engineer/architect and occasional Porsche driver. A lot of now middle aged architects worked in their office in Peel Street Collingwood and look back on their time there with affection.
It interests me that it seems to have been turned into a hospital with almost no apparent alteration to the building.
See also this link for some earnest architectural blogging:
http://blog.adonline.id.au/clyde-cameron-college/ -
- CommentAuthorinfo
- CommentTimeSep 25th 2010 edited
Didn't burnthard browneye & arsesohChates do that? What he says!
Stumbled over it short time ago. Its taken a deep breath, expelled all its air and sagged after looking like a french chick for 30 years - will probably fall down now.
love the cuban hearse and lurch door bell in the port coat chair. -
- CommentAuthorinfo
- CommentTimeSep 26th 2010 edited
Got any shots of the Harold Holt with a classy-less vehicle bruno?
Tubby had partners you wouldn't want to have ----- pockets now lined with filthy rupiah.
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/games-lootfest-is-a-grotesque-humiliation-for-india-20100925-15rjg.html -
- CommentAuthorbrunotautinstitute
- CommentTimeOct 1st 2010
No photos yet info.
I drove past yesterday and it was bearing the mark of Kane.
With luck it will become something rotund and clad in black neoprene with flippers but with Jacko and a lot of middleaged Brutalist sentimentals watching Peddle Thorpe's every key and mouse stroke I suspect not. -
- CommentAuthorbrunotautinstitute
- CommentTimeOct 6th 2010
Auburn Kindergarten and Childcare Centre. Design v Workmanship. Ross Ramus' 70's antiformalist statement of gasketed fibreglass panels extended in blueboard. The panels with the little windows for the kids to look out were re-used. -
- CommentAuthorinfo
- CommentTimeOct 7th 2010
Sack all the trans tasman, west of Ceduna and Gaggiaville gangsta fudgers and give you the history gig job bruno.
Keep em rolling. -
- CommentAuthorbrunotautinstitute
- CommentTimeOct 12th 2010
Westgate Bridge fell here 40 years ago exactly at 11.50 Friday 15 October.
http://www.westgatebridge.org/ -
- CommentAuthorbrunotautinstitute
- CommentTimeOct 14th 2010
Australia world's 'dumb blonde'? Looks like your worst fears are true info.
http://www.theage.com.au/travel/travel-news/australia-worlds-dumb-blonde-20101013-16k09.html?autostart=1
Any thoughts anyone? -
- CommentAuthorinfo
- CommentTimeOct 15th 2010 edited
but they do dye it....., those blondes who have still got some. -
- CommentAuthorbrunotautinstitute
- CommentTimeOct 15th 2010 edited
Sam may be smarter than he is often given credit for.... -
- CommentAuthorgreenhaus
- CommentTimeOct 17th 2010
Give you 1 guess on ze hair before he vas a POW. -
- CommentAuthorinfo
- CommentTimeOct 17th 2010 edited
Blondewood burl with copper tips. -
- CommentAuthorinfo
- CommentTimeOct 17th 2010
Not Strawberry Blonde. -
- CommentAuthorgreenhaus
- CommentTimeOct 17th 2010 edited
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- CommentAuthorgreenhaus
- CommentTimeOct 17th 2010
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- CommentAuthorinfo
- CommentTimeOct 17th 2010
Post Capitalism Blonde. -
- CommentAuthorinfo
- CommentTimeOct 17th 2010
New Paradigm Blonde. -
- CommentAuthorgreenhaus
- CommentTimeOct 17th 2010
Marxican Blonde with Pink Batt dog. -
- CommentAuthorgreenhaus
- CommentTimeOct 17th 2010
Still life with a pink dias, old paradigm blonde & beard. -
- CommentAuthorb_n
- CommentTimeOct 19th 2010
this is my ride, shame it's not my garage behind...
one of the chaps in the previous photo is rumoured to have wanted one, doubt he'd fit, Italians not known for being tall...
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- CommentAuthorbrunotautinstitute
- CommentTimeOct 20th 2010 edited
Italian style with concrete the wonder material. The autostrada takes you everywhere.
Nice to have a new voice I was beginning to suspect that info and herr greenhaus were the only other people still alive outside the pineapple bunker.
^^^^^^^^
In terms of the Smithson's concept of active socioplastics I still think it could use some black neoprene and flippers. -
- CommentAuthorbrunotautinstitute
- CommentTimeOct 20th 2010 edited
^^^^^^^^, ^^^^^^^
Good point greenhaus.
Green stars are not the be all and end all and GBCA is a bit like the Catholic Church. Discussing sustainability is a bit like medieval theology. There will be Reformations and Counter-Reformations but ultimately we all must seek salvation through our good works.
So keep nailing those theses to the door.
I'm looking forward to the diet of worms myself.
.....and if you want to reduce your electricity related greenhouse gas emissions by 20% minimum just build your Victorian building in any other state than Victoria. Mr Brumby could achieve his emissions targets tomorrow by replacing brown coal with black coal from Queensland. Now that would really give the QR float legs. A fast bulk freight line down the Newell Highway from south east Queensland to the La Trobe Valley, that's an infrastucture project. -
- CommentAuthorbrunotautinstitute
- CommentTimeOct 20th 2010 edited
On a lighter note here's how not to light a bust of Sir Robert Menzies.
Scary Bob! Take the kids down to Kew Library after dark and he'll give them nightmares for weeks.
Can't wait for the companion bust of John Howard. -
- CommentAuthorgreenhaus
- CommentTimeOct 20th 2010
^^ GBCA seem more like the exclusive brethren of green.
The Eyeties do a good tunnel entrance. Go well with mafia staff cars. -
- CommentAuthorbrunotautinstitute
- CommentTimeOct 21st 2010 edited
Getting close but I'd say more like Hillsong or one of those crazy south east asian business/fundementalist christian organisations based on fear, faith and money, they're jollier than the Exclusive Bretheren...but some of us are just compulsive joiners or heretics looking for a pyre. The Catholic Church was just an analogy by way of a large international organisation the rest is just theology and populism.
Getting back to the Pixel Building. Put a scoring system on something and some of the boys just can't help themselves and try and turn it into a pissing competition. They ruined surfing too.
Greenstar, LEED, BREEAM scores are like organised religion when what we really want is spirituality.
For Grollo I'd say they're also part of a re-branding process as they expand into a global market, but who knows, maybe they get the spiritual side too. Hope so. -
- CommentAuthorinfo
- CommentTimeOct 22nd 2010
Know whats really blonde? Pecha Kucha. -
- CommentAuthorbrunotautinstitute
- CommentTimeOct 22nd 2010 edited
info you're not a Methodist are you? It is OK to have fun, even though it might lead to dancing.
How about this orange blonde? The car the DS wanted to be. The body but with the SM Maserati V6 and the SM self centering steering which could break your wrist if you weren't careful. Good for 200kph on 3 wheels. Only 2 built. -
- CommentAuthorbrunotautinstitute
- CommentTimeOct 22nd 2010
Priceless -
- CommentAuthorbrunotautinstitute
- CommentTimeOct 22nd 2010 edited
"Phwoar!!!!" Roland Barthes
cf Barthes' response to the DS with its original engine: http://www.usounds.com/the-citroen-ds-by-barthes -
- CommentAuthorbrunotautinstitute
- CommentTimeOct 22nd 2010
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- CommentAuthorsod
- CommentTimeOct 22nd 2010
plenty of dick sucker architects have them or want them - good car tarnished by fan boys -
- CommentAuthorbrunotautinstitute
- CommentTimeOct 23rd 2010 edited
Come on sod enough of the self loathing. Architects are OK, even the gay ones. We are just prey to our visual sensibilities.
As I've gone on record before I drive a Camry myself, a car which has been described as "whitegoods on wheels" but which comes with an incredibly sophisticated advertising campaign headed by the Toyota Chicken.
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- CommentAuthorgreenhaus
- CommentTimeOct 23rd 2010 edited
Citroens were technological fakes that have evolved into rebranded taxis - hence their enduring appeal to architects and the political class.
Engineers, beautiful french chicks and cosmonauts lay down in their matras to pick up the baguettes - since these sorts of people are now extinct in continental europe the vehicle died out with them. -
- CommentAuthorinfo
- CommentTimeOct 23rd 2010
Like the nun I am catholic bruno. And this is a very honest citroen display because they have removed the troublesome wheels. -
- CommentAuthorinfo
- CommentTimeOct 23rd 2010
f$%kin A to honda. Totally in context. -
- CommentAuthorsod
- CommentTimeOct 24th 2010
Bruno, u need a lot of self help therapy to think architects are OK
fckn A to jap eurotrash killers in an oz blonde context.
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- CommentAuthorbrunotautinstitute
- CommentTimeOct 28th 2010
^
Nice!!!
Just in from a GBCA tent revival meeting, aka: Master Class.
Halleluja, sell coal and buy solar and wind.
Dr Andreas Luzzi tells us that those crafty Germans have leant on the Swiss financiers of a couple of Australian coal fired power stations proposed for the Fatherland and stopped the projects.
Don't they know that coal is blonde? -
- CommentAuthorbrunotautinstitute
- CommentTimeOct 29th 2010
A windscreen shot taken this morning of Neville Quarry's old house at 23 Duke Street, Kew.
That lovely hippy lady who used to teach building science at Melbourne University,was her name Blanche, also lived here until a few years ago.
It'll be interesting to see what happens next. -
- CommentAuthorgreenhaus
- CommentTimeOct 29th 2010 edited
Blanche rocked. So does that house. The gutter leaked and she didn't care.
The site shed is a bad sign. -
- CommentAuthorinfo
- CommentTimeNov 3rd 2010 edited
Marxico....... the writings been on the wall since the 70s.
Aborted woulda-shat-on-a-corvette against debbie/does/danny backstop. -
- CommentAuthorbrunotautinstitute
- CommentTimeNov 5th 2010
^Phil Zmood rocks
