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  • Modifications proposed to Harry Seidler’s Edmund Barton building

    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 [...]

    Posted on Sep 21.08 to Canberra, Harry Seidler, Heritage, Modernism   Comments Off   

  • Modernism in Australia—a collaborative Google Maps project

    The exhibition Modern Times, currently at the Powerhouse Museum, reveals how modernism transformed life in Australia across five decades from 1917 to 1967. Given that a major outlet for modernism has been the built environment, there exists an opportunity to extend the reach of this exhibition out of the museum and into Australian cities. A [...]

    Posted on Aug 31.08 to Modernism   Comments Off   

  • Canberra’s top twenty modernist houses—at Flickr and Google Earth

    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 [...]

    Posted on Jul 14.08 to Canberra, Heritage, Modernism   1 Comment   

  • Brisbane Modern—independent content from Chris Osborne

    Independent content publishers deserve all the help and support they can get. Issue 2 of the excellent Brisbane Modern: mid 20th century design magazine was released in June. It’s a recently established publication which examines that city’s architecture, art and design from the mid twentieth century. What’s also interesting, to me, is that it’s an [...]

    Posted on Jul 08.08 to Modernism   Comments Off   

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