We will be presenting at the Australian Institute of Architects tomorrow night on housing models along with Welsh+Major, Nobbs Radford and Kieran McInerny.

Tuesday September 30 at 6:30pm Tusculum

Brad Rhoads, a computer programmer and missionary in Princeton, Ill., faces a computer monitor on a file cabinet and gets in about five miles a day on a treadmill while working in his home office.

“After a while, your legs do get kind of tired,” said Mr. Rhoads, 40, who started exercising in March, when doctors advised him to lose weight after open-heart surgery.

New York Times

Jim Keane, Steelcase Group president comments, “Organizations interested in elevating healthy activity and productivity among its employees can install the Walkstation in a variety of ways – as part of a conference room where employees can walk while meeting, in individual workstations, or for groups of workers to share in other common areas around the office.”

Steelcase

DIY.

So the Venice Bienale of Architecture is up and running.

I thought that I would reblog a bunch of images of the Australian Pavilion from the pavilion’s Flickr feed. The pavilion is a documentation of Australian past and future. The top room is filled with projections of images and movies of built work; the lower room full of models of work that is underway in architecture offices across Australia.

All images by Gary Warner (one of the creative directors) who has many more images of the Australian pavilion as well as other pavilions and exhibitions up the Flickr page.

And to finish off, I like the entry to the USA pavilion — asking visitors to cross through an image of the Mexican border:

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An Verandah for a small farmhouse on the south coast of NSW

Some more folding follies. This one, an unsuccessful competition entry. In collaboration with Metalab.

More on this one, soon. Maybe.

A new kitchen in an existing house.

The Courtyard House is coming along and will soon be lodged for development approvals:

We have been studying how the metal deck roofing of the courtyard house might wrap over to become two walls of the house:

Also, the entry and placement of openings in the street facade:

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