- ARCHIVE / Modernism
- 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 [...]
- 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 [...]
- 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 [...]
- 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 [...]