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Proposition 2065: AR is launching its next in the postcode monikered design competitions, this time concentrating on a mixed-use site in St Leonards, Sydney. There will be briefings in Sydney (1st April), Melbourne (7th), and Brisbane (16th).

Bad British Architecture. Performs as advertised.

Nancy Levison writing for Design Observer on the state of architectural criticism. You can see the point. Cheap and easy access to a virtually limitless catalogue of artworks is no guarantee of great arts criticism — but it makes possible the sustained engagement and encyclopaedic learning that inspire it. (I am convinced that the incomparable…

Joy Street. The Dutch pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo.

Simon Knott on the RRR radio show, The Architects, talking about the failings of Melbourne’s Docklands, articulating my primary fears for Barangaroo in Sydney: “If you look at the Melbourne city grid and the land parcels in the 1830s they were small parcels of land, they were small titles so it allows hundreds of different…

Harmony—a nifty web based sketching app. It works on the iPhone too, for algorithmic touchscreen drawing fun on the bus.