Month: November 2011

  • Dealing with Wgtn traffic on a wing and a prayer

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    I’ve been re-thinking. What if, concerning the whole Basin/Option X thing, we went right back to the fundamentals of the situation and began from there? Forget flyovers and tunnels, Options A, B, X, X+, and KY(!); forget Sussex Street, Memorial Park, and even the Basin itself. What are the fundamental issues?

  • Russell Walden’s “Triumphs of Change”

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      INVITATION TO BOOK LAUNCH.                    Triumphs of Change: architecture reconsidered School of Architecture, Vivian Street @ 4.30pm, Friday 16th December.   Launch by Professor Michael OSTWALD, Dean of Architecture, NEWCASTLE University, Australia.

  • Russell Walden: Triumphs of Change (book launch)

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      INVITATION TO BOOK LAUNCH.                    Triumphs of Change: architecture reconsidered School of Architecture, Vivian Street @ 4.30pm, Friday 16th December.   Launch by Professor Michael OSTWALD, Dean of Architecture, NEWCASTLE University, Australia. Caroline Schopfer, book editor from Peter Lang AG, Bern, Switzerland will also be present. Book will be on sale discounted 30% for the…

  • Apple strudel

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    A small post, updating the one we posted last year – Apple have just unveiled the revised glass cube on 5th Avenue, the world’s most prolific retail spot. The architecture, such as it is, has been reduced even further: from 90 panes of glass down to just 15, or so we are told. As the…

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