- ARCHIVE / Demolition
- Going once, going twice…still going…
In July we wrote about the then-imminent sale of the Robin Boyd House II in South Yarra: the auction scheduled for 21 July was postponed when the Victorian Government, the Robin Boyd Foundation and the RAIA Victorian chapter set about finding a way to raise funds to pay the mortgage and deal with the Boyd [...]
- Heritage: striking a balance
As reported in the Sydney Morning Herald (23 October, 2006), a house in Lurline Bay, Sydney, designed by Harry Seidler in 1963, is under threat of demolition. The listing agent says that the new owner will probably demolish the house, since it’s a modest place sited on a magnificent block of land. The Heritage Committee [...]
- Whitley houses ‘preserved’
Canberra is a young city. Due to World Wars and Depression, its early development came in fits and starts. As a result, there are few public buildings left from this period and even fewer examples of modernist public housing.
Take a look at them now, because before too much longer, these rare and unusual examples of [...]