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The NSW Australian Institute of Architects Awards were held last night at the Hilton and I am happy to report that several of SC’s buddies took out the top awards for residential and public buildings. Neeson Murcutt were awarded their second Wilkinson Award for the Whale Beach House. I have only driven by this one…

Photographs of buildings by Gehry, Sejima and Moneo taken on a recent visit to the Novartis campus in Basel. The campus is undergoing an extensive redevelopment with projects by Ando, Taniguchi, Maki, Chipperfield, Siza, Nouvel, Souto de Moura and Piano under construction.

The Creative Sydney festival is well under way and so far the sessions have been very successful. It is one part of the Vivid Sydney festival that is currently engulfing Circular Quay. Alongside Creative Sydney at the MCA, there is the Luminous music festival at the Opera House curated by Brian Eno, the Smartlight Sydney…

A quick update on projects currently on site at the moment. First up, the almost-so-very-close-but-not-quite-finished-yet Elizabeth Bay Apartment: This is our first multi-room project (!) and involved removing a whole lot of walls, putting down a timber floor and inserting a newsnaking joinery unit containing storage, the kitchen and a study. Also, the Watsons Bay…

DARCH is holding the second of their ‘remarch’ events this Thursday at the Institute in Potts Point. It will be a Salon des Refusés for the UTS Broadway competition, with 15 offices presenting their rejected proposals in 5 minutes. Something like a live action version of the UTS Broadway gallery with a few special guest…

While I get my thoughts together on Parallax, which I hope to post later this week, here is our new office photo. Erin made it just in time for my presentation of our office and its blog at the Parallaxed session at the conference. It leverages several technologies that allow us to add to it…