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The Australian contribution to the Venice Biennale of architecture &#8212 Abundant &#8212 will feature a room full of hundreds of models contributed by local architecture practices. We made a plywood version of the cubby house re-imagined as an apartment building &#8212 albeit one with few windows and fairly deep floor plans.

“Members of China’s armed police demonstrate a rapid deployment during an anti-terrorist drill held in Jinan, capital of east China’s Shandong Province July 2, 2008, roughly one month ahead of the Beijing Olympics.” Source.

The NSW architecture awards are on in a couple of weeks. We were asked to make posters for the night. These are they:

Architecture Australia has launched this year’s Prize for Unbuilt Work. The AA Prize for Unbuilt Work seeks conceptually rigorous, inventive responses to contemporary architectural issues. An initiative of Architecture Australia, the national magazine of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects, the AA Prize promotes debate about architecture and architectural ideas by recognizing excellence in unbuilt…

The office of Super Colossal is 1 today! One goal set early on was to topple Joe Satriani from the top spot on a google search for ‘Super Colossal’. And so with that item ticked off, we can turn our attention to more pressing issues; such as, producing actual buildings…

Once upon a time, Canberra was the home of some fine geometry. The City had a pretty good start, with the Griffin’s putting in place some serious groundwork with the radial geometry and the land and water axes of the city. Architects such as Roy Grounds, Sydney Ancher, John Andrews embraced these conditions and produced…