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Arsenal 1, Yale 0, Melb -1
Arsenal’s old ground in London has been renovated into a housing complex. Allies and Morrison incorporated the old grandstands and planted the pitch. Clever.
03.10.09 in buildings
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Monash at Kinglake
Today I attended Silvia Acosta’s presentation at the Kinglake Temporary Housing Village. The architect from the Rhode Island School of Design has been working with 2nd year Monash Architecture students to design and build a large community shelter at the village, and presented to a packed house at the Community Dining Hall.
27.09.09 in buildings
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Ballarat best and worst
Hot on the heels of an Albury newspaper’s Best and Worst Buildings comes Ballarat’s. A slightly more democratic method of determining the lists was used – polls rather than one journo’s whims.
20.09.09 in buildings
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Domain Rd Metro
Grimshaw’s concept design for the railway at Melbourne’s Domain Road interchange can be viewed at Architecture and Design. Apparently the train in the images is a high speed Seimens – may not be able to get a good head of steam up on that line.
14.09.09 in buildings
Boxes
As pointed out by Sean in a recent comment , the following BVN designs are somewhat alike. Big white box phase?
04.09.09 in buildings
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Wardle + DA get Melb Uni
In case there is anyone (like me) out there who managed to miss the big news of the week…
ADR
02.09.09 in buildings
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Another Brut to bite dust
10 Murray Street in Hobart, labelled an “eyesore” in today’s Hobart Mercury , is to tumble to make way for a new development.
28.08.09 in buildings heritage
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UQ school launched
UQ says the new architecture school by Donovan Hill has been “launched”… not much in the way of pics but the students sound happy enough.
24.08.09 in buildings education
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Albury best and worst?
The Border Mail has some pages listing the best and worst in Albury architecture. Go figure.
22.08.09 in buildings
UTS docs posted
The jury report for the UTS Broadway competition, won by DCM, is now available online.
17.08.09 in buildings competitions
Into the frying pan
Some shocking news from the ABC: “The Ballina Shire Council has received a submission seeking permission to demolish the Big Prawn.”
16.08.09 in buildings weird-wonderful
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iDemo
The upcoming demolition of Lonsdale House, an art deco building in Melbourne’s dowdy Lonsdale Street, is attracting attention that must be worrying the developers and Myer. A brief survey of recent developments turns up calls to arms, critiques of Melbourne’s heritage policy, and thoughts about what inner Melbourne should strive to be.
16.08.09 in buildings heritage
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Shields and gills
Ah.. here is a render of the DCM UTS Broadway building (see previous article ).
Can’t tell very much from this, but everyone the SMH spoke to says it’s very good.
01.08.09 in buildings
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Scorched
Does Google know something we don’t about the Supreme Court building in Sydney?
01.08.09 in buildings weird-wonderful
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Eastern Cemetery Mausoleum
Phillip Harmer’s newly opened Eastern Cemetery Mausoleum in Geelong has attracted an enthusiastic write up in the Geelong Advertiser. Perhaps by the real estate department.
28.07.09 in buildings
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Lonsdale House doomed?
Planning permit approved . Going, going…
27.07.09 in buildings heritage
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