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We took a wander through the newly opened Paddington Reservoir by Tonkin Zulaikha Greer and landscape architects James Mather Delaney Design. a few weekends ago and came away very impressed by this excellent new urban park. The reservoir played a limited role as a piece of infrastructure in Sydney’s early days. It was completed in…

Some upcoming events!! Awesome! Firstly, Parallax, the National Conference is on next week in Melbourne. I have pimped its wares before, but if you have not taken a look at the line-up of speakers and sessions, I recommend you do as, I think it will be an ace couple of days. Slavoj Zizek, Peter Wilson,…

My niece was watching Toy Story recently, a film which I have not seen in quite some time, when a small detail jumped out at me. The pattern of the carpet in the neighbour’s house where Buzz and Woody have been trapped is a match for the carpet in the Overlook Hotel in The Shining.…

Dear Designer, You Suck &#8212 a post by Khoi Vinh on the importance of critique and a critical press in the design world. These are very true words, and apply equally to architects as to designers: “Sometimes I wonder, then: given that everyone in design seems to more or less know everyone else, are we…

The first stage of the UTS Broadway Competition is over, and the shortlist has been confirmed. This is the first open competition in Sydney for a major public project and it attracted a great deal of interest from local, national and international practices. We were pumped, our buddies were pumped. But now it is all…

Attendance is down this year for the Australian Institute of Architects national conference, Parallax. Curated by Terroir, the conference positions itself as a location of debate and discourse. Using, keynote speaker and conference anchor Slavoj Žižek’s writings on parallax as a starting point, the conference will seek to actively draw out points of difference and…