Category: Blog Post

  • Pecha Kucha Volume 12

    Pecha Kucha Sydney Volume 12 is on Thursday 6th August! This time we will be holding the night at Carriageworks, the excellent performance venue in Redfern which means that you will all be seated comfortably and will be able to see and hear all the action… We have an great lineup of creative peoples and…

  • Attaching Things to Your Vehicle With Velcro and Appropriate Parking Angles on the Surface of the Moon.

    I love the legibly mechanical character of early space exploration. When the future still involved rivets. The Lunar Rover Operations Handbook exemplifies this period, detailing the workings and running of the vehicles that were used to roam the surface of the moon. When the absolutely incredible act of driving a motor vehicle on the surface…

  • City of Sound and BLDGBLOG at the Australian Institute of Architects

    Dan Hill! Geoff Manaugh! Talking at Tusculum tomorrow night! City of Sound and BLDGBLOG are two of the best architecture and urbanism blogs on the planet, and those that are regular readers of their work will know that it promises to be a provocative and enlightening evening. (ignore the hasty image below… The date is…

  • SANAA at Sherman Gallery

    An installation by SANAA opened at Sherman Gallery in Paddington last night. The work is comprised of two of SANAA’s flower shapes made of acrylic sitting in the gallery space. As a demonstration of the spatial effects of bending transparent materials and the examination of personal space, privacy and publicness it is quite effective. It…

  • Publishing Practices – Book Survey!

    We strongly encourage you to participate in a survey on architectural publications and their influence, for a research project currently being undertaken by Michael Kubo on publishing practices to be exhibited at Pinkcomma gallery in Boston in September 2009.   The project is the second installment of an exhibition on the legacy of architectural publications, titled…

  • Surry Hills Library Signage by Akin and Collider

    Jeremy and I took a quick wander through the recently opened Surry Hills Library on Crown Street by FJMT. Like many of FJMT’s buildings this is a highly detailed timber and glass number with what I am told is an extraordinary cost per square metre put towards achieving ‘benchmark’ energy credentials. And while on first…