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Bridge building
A great 2007 doco is on ABC iView, until June 14th, on the construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Design plagiarism, kidnap attempts, fascists on horses, bank robbing… it’s exhausting.
06.06.11 in buildings
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Venice in retrospect
I must apologise. A student from RMIT asked if I would publish this last October and I said, ‘sure!’ and then I somehow forgot. Although it is about a student’s visit to the 2010 Venice Bienalle, which was a while ago now, it is still relevant. It is about a student who goes to Venice to see the architecture, and instead ends up drowning in canapes and crashing parties. Which all leaves him feeling a bit sick.
02.06.11 in events
New Orleans slays the 20th Century
“If something isn’t from the 19th Century, it has no necessity for preservation.”
28.05.11 in heritage
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Ai Weiwei
Chinese architect Ai Weiwei was detained at an airport in China in early April and is still locked up without charge. BD Online surveys the attitudes of architects working in China on the arrest.
24.05.11 in architects
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The Architects hit Fed Square
Good? Bad? Ugly? All three? This video from Sunday’s Art Nation also contains a glimpse of Lab’s ideas for Fed Square East. Think leafy and shady!
23.05.11 in buildings video-clips
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Grand Huf
As a preface to an upcoming article on prefab housing, which may not be ready for a while… here is a Grand Designs repeat about the construction of a german Huf Haus , demonstrating how ridiculously quickly they can be erected, and also how weirdly it sits in its English suburban context. It expires VERY soon though – May 23. iView here .
21.05.11 in buildings
Barangareview
Video coverage from Channel Ten late last week. The new NSW State government announced a review of the Barangaroo project.
19.05.11 in urban-planning video-clips
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10 Murray crunch time
Here’s a link to ABC 730 Tasmania’s video coverage last Friday of the 10 Murray St debate in Hobart – all coming to a head in the supreme court today and tomorrow.
19.05.11 in buildings heritage
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BP on FB
I keep forgetting to say – Butterpaper is on Facebook now too. So you can see what’s new on this site by going to that site and liking the butterpaper page. Madly frustrating to do as each post has a 420 character limit.
12.05.11 in random-debris
Fumihiko Maki interview
Fenella Kernebone of Arts Nation speaking with Fumihiko Maki in April 2011, shortly after his appearance at the AIA national conference in Melbourne. Most of the discussion is about the recent earthquake and tsunami disaster in Japan.
11.05.11 in architects video-clips
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Not Frank
The cheek. Metricon probably got me most offside when they named a house the Arkley. But more recently I noticed in The Age that they have a new really, really large house, just when we thought they were an aberration of the Naughties. This 456 sqm 5 bedroom, 5 en suite, 5 STAR energy eater comes with three facades. If you like those So Frenchy CDs you could go for the Provincial, if you think yourself a touch more modern you might go the Vogue, or if you would like your house to be architecty but won’t pay, you might try the Oak Park, an unfortunate rip off of the 102 year old Robie House in Hyde Park, Chicago. Nowhere near Oak Park. Nowhere near Frank Lloyd Wright.
08.05.11 in weird-wonderful
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Paul resigns
Paul Keating has resigned from his role as director of the Barangaroo Design Excellence review panel. The chronology of events went something like this:
07.05.11 in urban-planning
How Peter does it
A little interview by Igloo with Peter Maddison, host of Grand Designs Australia… and my old boss. Not that old.
18.04.11 in profiles video-clips
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2011 AIA conference - who's talking
This year’s ‘Natural Artifice’ conference starts at the end of this week, in Melbourne. For those unable to fathom very much from the conference overview, it may be useful to pop into a few of the speakers’ websites. So here they are.
12.04.11 in conference
