Mid-century modern houses and buildings are always vulnerable when they’re located on valuable land—whether heritage listed or not. And so it is with the Allawah, Bega and Currong flats in Braddon (1954), which sit on land close to Civic estimated to be worth $63 million.
The Canberra Times of 11 April, 2010 reports that the “ABC Flats”, [...]
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Modifications proposed to Harry Seidler’s Edmund Barton building
Canberra, Harry Seidler, Heritage, Modernism ~ 21. Sep, 2008
Disturbing news report from the Sydney Morning Herald about the fitout of Harry Seidler’s heritage listed Edmund Barton building on Kings Avenue. It seems like the consultation with Seidler and Associates promised by the owners of the building, Stocklands, isn’t working out so well. The Federal Government spent over $40 million refitting Anzac Park West [...]
UC Student Residences among latest additions to ACT Heritage Register
Brutalist, Heritage, John Andrews ~ 02. Aug, 2008
More recent activity at the ACT Heritage Unit, as several places have been provisionally registered under the Heritage Act 2004. Among buildings included in the latest batch are works by Frederick Romberg, Enrico Taglietti, Ken Woolley and John Andrews.
The latest provisional registrations are for:
Ken Woolley’s Woden Library and Phillip Health Centre (1977)
Frederick Romberg’s Lutheran Church [...]
Over at my Flickr photostream I’ve put together an image set called Canberra’s Top Twenty—a list of Canberra’s most important modernist houses. The images are geo-tagged, and I’ve created a KML file for you to play in Google Earth.
While some may argue that the list is arbitrary, it is substantially based on significance according to [...]
Canberra’s heritage nomination backlog beginning to shift
Canberra, Heritage, Roy Grounds ~ 20. Jun, 2008A large backlog of nominations to the ACT Heritage Register has been building up over the past decade. During that time the RAIA has nominated a number of important houses and buildings to the ACT Interim Heritage Places Register. Unfortunately, few of these have ended up as actual heritage listings.
Some good news though—the ACT Heritage [...]
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 [...]
Recent Twentieth Century heritage press coverage
Heritage, Pettit and Sevitt, Robin Boyd ~ 14. Sep, 2007It’s been pleasing to see some coverage of twentieth century heritage in the mainstream media lately.
ABC TV’s The Collectors aired a segment on 7 September about a restored apartment (or a flat, to use a period-correct term that’s gone right out of vogue) in the c. 1940 Sydney building Number Seven Elizabeth Street. The owner, [...]
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