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Domesticated animals
Melbourne’s Nest Architecture , perhaps tiring of the lets-empty-the-place approach to architectural photography, worked with artist Tai Snaith to ‘people’ one of their houses with a collection of animals (stuffed, wooden, and real) and related bits and pieces. The result was then photographed by documentary photographer Jesse Marlow . They tell me a fun day was had by all. Maybe they can fit a horse in next time. More on their site .
18.08.08 in architects photographers
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Louise Cox head UIA honcho
Australian architect Louise Cox was appointed president of the International Union of Architects last month in Turin. We’d better find some more out about her. Judging from her bio she is pretty well ready for the job. Sadly her competitor for the job, Giancarlo Ius, died on the day of the elections – she has said that she will honour his policies as well as her own. So what will she do?
12.08.08 in architects
Cantilever of JCBA #2
These guys seem to be off on a propped out tangent all of their own with their cantilevered homes. This one is at Cape Schanck on the Mornington Peninsula, and the article is at Arch Daily. Pic by John Gollings.
27.07.08 in architects
Denton's review
John Denton is interviewed after retiring as Victoria’s State Government architect. He doesn’t exactly give the current Labour Government a ringing endorsement. In particular he criticises its penchant for Public Private Partnerships, which tend to open the public land up to an unnecessary level of commercial development and shut the government out of the process.
26.07.08 in architects
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Cantilever of the week
I stumbled across this JCBA house at Wallpaper.com, down at Separation Creek. A tree-like series of green boxes, with the first floor cantilevering off in all directions. Being where it is, I wonder how it would all work in a wild fire?
13.07.08 in architects
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New Government Architect
Victoria has a new government architect, Geoffrey London. Unknown in Melbourne, London has spent his academic career in Western Australia, where he was also Government Architect. Expect a change of flavour form outgoing Govarchitect, John Denton.
06.07.08 in architects
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.
13.12.07 in architects
Doing it his way
Peter Corrigan profile by Norman Day, written after Corrigan won the RAIA Gold Medal in 2003.
01.09.03 in architects profiles
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Glenn Murcutt Pritzker Prize laureate 2002
A butterpaper editorial from 2002.
03.04.02 in architects profiles
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Vive La Vie
An interview with Daryl Jackson earlier this decade.
24.04.00 in architects
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