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This is fairly depressing book. As ‘young architects’ ourselves, this book presents a fairly good summary of just how lazy we are and we should be doing more… It is the result of a Young Architects Forum competition run by the Architectural League of New York – young architects here being defined by having graduated…

One of the announcements made at the RAIA National Conference a couple of weeks ago was a partnership with Google to integrate Australian award winning buildings into Google Earth. Available as a download-able layer that can be added to Google Earth, there is information on over 600 buildings that have been awarded at the state…

The New Yorker recently ran a completely fascinating article on the world of elevators – “Up and Then Down” – by Nick Paumgarten. It details the mechanics of elevators, the likely hood of something going wrong, a history of Otis, all of which is interspersed with the story of Nicholas White. White was a hapless…

Recently: Alts and ads to a house in Sydney: A new model of the house we showed last time:

“I am pleased to announce that Australia, the largest island in the world has dramatically increased in size” – Federal Resources and Energy Minister Martin Ferguson Ummm… Australia has just been enlarged. By an extra 2.5 million square kilometres. Or – “an area five times the size of France, 10 times the size of New…

Oscar Niemeyer’s National Congress of Brazil for sale. A lifestyle of sensual functionalism awaits the discerning purchaser of this charming example of Brazilian modern architecture. This exciting property features 3 bedrooms, external aspect, lift access, close proximity to public transport and the plasticity and freedom that only reinforced concrete can offer. Yours for only 145,000…