Tag: Australia

  • The slow crawl up

    Errol Haarhoff’s recent report on the gender in architectural education, reveals the staggering progress that women have made in the architectural profession.

  • from the Similarity Files – BHP Building, Melbourne

    140 William Street (formerly BHP House), Melbourne, Australia Architect: Yuncken Freeman, Skidmore Owings & Merril, 1967 Ok, so this one is probably more widely ‘known’ than the previous example that I raised of international works of architecture that bear strong resemblance to buildings that we might find on our own Wellington streets, but it is worth

  • At least we still have the Bledisloe Cup…

    Having taken the Cricket World Cup, the World Netball Championships, and enough Olympic Gold to put a serious offer on the South Island, the Aussies look like a good bet to take out the WAN House of the Year 2008 as well. The ‘long list‘ of 30 contains entries from Argentina to Latvia, but the country…

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