Tag: Melbourne
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Oxymoronic food: when design matters
# CommentThe other day in the lead up to Easter I bought some hot cross buns. At home I discovered they had been chocolatified.
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The power of paint
As any cyclist is aware, paint on a road can be a life saver, very scarey or simply humorous – as those travelling the shortest cycle lane in Britain would know.
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KERSTIN THOMPSON – PRACTICE AND PEDAGOGY
PUBLIC LECTURE: WEDNESDAY 6TH MAY, VUW SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE / 17:30 DRINKS / 18:00 LECTURE Kerstin is the director of Melbourne based architecture, landscape and urban design practice Kerstin Thompson Architects. The studio’s projects of varying scale “pursue the poetic possibilities of architecture rendered through an overall site vision that orchestrates a complementary organisation of landform, interiors,…
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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