Posts Tagged ‘Melbourne’

Can ugly buildings be heritage?

Saturday, September 3rd, 2016

This question responds to the idea that ugliness (more…)

Oxymoronic food: when design matters

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011

The other day in the lead up to Easter I bought some hot cross buns.  At home I discovered they had been chocolatified.  (more…)

The power of paint

Thursday, March 10th, 2011

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. (more…)

Invercargill leads the way.

Monday, August 30th, 2010

Quite alot happens at the edges of our roads. (more…)

KERSTIN THOMPSON – PRACTICE AND PEDAGOGY

Friday, May 1st, 2009

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, structures and services to achieve a multidimensional and sustainable environment.”

To mark her appointment as a Teaching Fellow at the School of Architecture, Kerstin will present her body of work, and with reference to her experiences as an Adjunct Professor at RMIT, discuss relationships between the production and teaching of architecture.

WWW.KERSTINTHOMPSON.COM

from the Similarity Files – BHP Building, Melbourne

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

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 (more…)