Category: Blog Post
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Sydney Design Guide Launch
The Sydney Design Guide is being launched tomorrow night at Customs House. If it is anything like the Melbourne Design Guide released last year, it should prove to be an excellent resource for tourists and locals alike. Customs House, Thursday 29th November, 7pm.
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Canberra, Three of the Good’uns
For whatever reasons, I spent the last two weekends down in Canberra. And managed to spend a bit of time in the three best buildings down there. Following are a some snapshots. The National Academy of Science building by Roy Grounds 1959: The High Court of Australia by Edwards, Madigan Torzillo and Briggs (Chritopher Kringas…
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Death Maps
Valve, the publishers of the Half Life series, gather large amounts of gamer data through their online delivery system Steam. There are an average of 8.44 billion minutes played each month on the Steam servers and a consequence of this is that they are able to gather vast statistics of how people play through games.…
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Architecture school exhibition time again!
UNSW is holding an exhibition in their newly awsome-fied mezzanine space THIS friday at the Red Centre, UNSW 6pm: UTS is holding theirs in a couple of weeks – 12.12.07 at UTS: The Sydney University Exhibition – {esc}ape – is on Tuesday 27th November at the Everleigh Carriageworks. Would be a good opportunity to head…
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Circuit City
Circuit IV (2007), Roberto Cabot From the latest issue of l’architecture d’aujourd’hui centred on drawing.
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Spatial Investigations
There is a talk on tomorrow night at the RAIA that I have helped organise, titled ‘Spatial Investigations’. Four artists and architects will talk about their work in the context of how art is able to deal with spatial relationships in ways that architecture often cannot. Given the complex requirements- contractual, functional, legislative – architects…