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Lonsdale House barber shop
[4 Caledonian Lane]
Melbourne
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Auckland
New Zealand’s largest city, Auckland nestles between tens of dormant volcanoes and is home to the world’s biggest polynesian population. The weather is temperate, public transport is a joke, and the houses are wooden.
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Civic Theatre
This atmospheric cinema seating 2750 opened in Auckland in 1929. It was designed by Charles Bohringer and William Leighton.
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Supreme Court, Sydney
184 Philip Street, Sydney
Harry Seidler collection
The State Library of NSW’s collection of Seidler drawings and diaries – and a lot of it is online.
Blues Point tower
Built 1961.
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Aspect Studios
Studio 61, L6, 61 Marlborough Street, Surry Hills, 2010.
NSW. Australia.
Ph: 02 9699 7182
F: 02 9699 7192,
ORDOS 100
2008: “The scope of the project is to Develop 100 hundred villas in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China, for the Client, Jiang Yuan Water Engineering Ltd. FAKE Design, Ai Wei Wei studio in Beijing, has developed the masterplan for the 100 parcels of land and will curate the project, while Herzog and de Meuron have selected the 100 architects to participate. The collection of 100 Architects hail from 27 countries around the globe. The project has been divided into 2 phases. The first phase is the development of 28 parcels while the second phase will develop the remaining 72. Each architect is responsible for a 1000 square meter Villa.”
Perforated House
[82 Wilson Street]
BRUNSWICK 3056
Moscow Architecture Preservation Society
“The initiative group of MAPS consists of young architects, historians, heritage managers and journalists from different countries. We work in close cooperation with preservationists, architects and historians within Russia and abroad to raise awareness about the present destruction of the city’s historical buildings. Through these contacts, we are working to give Russian preservationists and Muscovites a greater international voice. We invite international experts to advise on more sustainable approaches to the historic built environment.”
Narkomfin semi- collectivised housing complex
Novinsky Boulevard 25
Moscow
Guilford Bell Pavilion
An owner’s profile of her pyramid-roofed Guilford Bell house in Templestowe, Melbourne. Includes some photos.
Boyd Baker House
Boyd Baker Compound
[Long Forest Road]
Long Forest,
near Bacchus Marsh
Victoria
Ph: 03 8508 6444
The Gauge
825 Bourke Street, Victoria Harbour (Docklands)
Kangan Batman TAFE
Automotive Centre of Excellence
[1 Batman’s Hill Drive]
Docklands VIC 3008
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Mission to Seafarers
This is a precious old building left intact in the middle of an area of rapid development. Now that it is far from the ships that it services, I hope it doesn’t suffer the fate of the Mission at Prt Melbourne (now Beacon Cove). A mishmash of spanish mission and arts and crafts styles, the building is full of the unexpected. The Norla Gymnasium is an example – roughly hewn, it is instantly my favorite dome interior – but I haven’t been to Rome. Let’s hope they do the mooted refurb sensitively. The chapel is hard to describe, and impossible to photograph without a wide lens, so visit it. Of interest are the pulpit shaped like the back of a galleon, and the varying naive modern(?) stained glass windows. The bar (which is open to the public every day) is a great space too, particularly its shallow vault, and broken beer bottle bar front. This complex complex was designed by Walter Butler and built in 1916 to 1917. The name was apparently changed from Mission to Seamen to Mission to Seafarer in 2000, for unknown reasons.
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