Category: asides

This year’s About Face Award—the annual competition looking for innovative use of bricks—entries are up online, for you to again, vote for your favourite. This year’s brief called for medium scale mixed use developments, with entries by DRAW, Minifie Nixon, MCK amongst others.

The University of Melbourne is running a competition for a New Building for the Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning. They have made available online, video of the public presentations made by each of the shortlisted teams of their practice and approach (not presentations of the team’s competition entries).

Vote now for the finalists in the Reburbia Competition—A competition to reconsider the suburban condition. SC buddies Lacoste+Stevenson have an entry in the running that proposes placing long flat housing on piloti over existing suburban streets that fold up to form towers at the intersections.

New Weird Australia. A monthly compilation promoting eclectic and experimental Australian music. “Neither popular nor alternative, neither one genre nor another, New Weird Australia represents a new breed of Australian musicians that find refuge in the space between us. We hope you enjoy this selection and seek out the full library of work that these…

DCM have been won the UTS Broadway Competition for the new faculty of IT and Engineering building. The official competition website has still not been updated since before the first stage of the competition, so for the time being you will have to be satisfied with the one rendering of the proposal at the Sydney…

World of Change – NASA’s study of the planet in flux. Dubai grows rapidly, forests grow slowly and the marshlands of Iraq are regenerated following the demolition of the dykes and canals that had been draining the region.