http://www.canberrahouse.com Mid-century modernist architecture Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:28:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.canberrahouse.com/2008/07/14/canberras-top-twenty%e2%80%94at-flickr-and-google-earth/ 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 ... http://www.canberrahouse.com/2008/07/08/brisbane-modern%e2%80%94independent-content-from-chris-osbourne/ As I drive or ride over Commonwealth Avenue Bridge, I often think of Sir Robert Menzies—no, really. Menzies thought the Bridge was the ‘finest building in the National Capital’. Opened to traffic in November 1963 over the yet to be filled lake, the bridge was and is regarded as a ... http://www.canberrahouse.com/2008/06/30/the-finest-building-in-the-national-capitala-bridge/ A 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 ... http://www.canberrahouse.com/2008/06/20/heritage-nomination-backlog-beginning-to-shift/ 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 ... http://www.canberrahouse.com/2007/09/26/going-once-going-twicestill-going/