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Edited 6 Sept 2013. This post was about tours of  the Ultimo College - a very fine building by William E Kemp. I don't think these tour...

I don't know if any of you still check this blog now that semester has finished (well, except for marking), but Designboom have just pu...

More at the OMA website

I expect none of you will have time today to watch this (see you all later) and it is almost 10 minutes long, but this is a fabulous and irr...

Video of the construction of the Casa Garoza by Herreros Arquitectos below. More at Designboom . Herreros Arquitectos - Casa Garoza 10.1 Mo...

Anthony Gill of Anthony Gill Architects will also be coming in. Photograph below of Restaurant Berta is by Peter Bennetts .

Marcus Trimble of Bennett and Trimble and Super Colossal will be coming in. Image below of the Goldcoast Cultural and Civic Precinct Maste...

Huw Turner of Collins and Turner will be returning for your final crits. Photograph below by Richard Glover . Sadly, Georgina Blix is not a...

A little bit amazed to learn that some of you do not know Peter Zumthor's work. Please Google him. All his buildings are extraordinary. ...

Marcus Trimble has advised that Pecha Kucha Sydney is on again tomorrow night (Thursday 2nd June) at the Carriageworks. More Info Tickets A...

BD Online has shown time-lapse footage of construction of the London Olympic Orbit Tower by Anish Kapoor with Arup and Ushida Findlay :

Last day of studio before juries. For this reason, please bring in as much of your work as possible, in whatever its current form. Please th...

I mentioned to Vivienne yesterday that many of Spain's cities have Municipal Archives. This is an image of the Archivo Municipal de Tole...

Here's a short video on automated storage systems. Lots more if you Google automated storage or automated warehouse .

Plataforma Arquitectura have been kind enough to publish a little feature on one of my favorite projects by one of my favorite architects: t...

I think we may have briefly discussed this in studio. A nice example of the increasingly tired idea of "let's just stack things up&...

One of last year's jurors, Mark Gazy, pointed out this scheme after mid-semester juries. See post here . What is lovely and relevant is ...

Sonni, one of the students for this subject last year, has made me aware of the video below. You may also want to have a look at the earlier...

Thought I should draw your attention to this project by Johnston Marklee as Lars Holt, a friend of mine, worked on this project. Lars was pa...

Presume you all know about this, but Mark Lee of Johnston Marklee is giving a lecture at UTS Monday evening. Lecture is titled Generic Spec...

Archdaily have recently published some of Iwan Baan's photos of the Museum of Ocean and Surf (Cité de l’Océan et du Surf, Biaritz) by S...

Alessandro has pointed in the direction of this project. Alessandro's comments here . Dezeen article here . Kada Wiffeld Architektur web...

This was the subject of a post last year too. Photos below are by Duccio Malagamba, published at Dezeen . There are plans and more photos a...

Worth having a look at the Cien House by Pezo von Ellrichshausen . Image below from Architectural Record . Photo by Cristóbal Palma . Have ...

Iwan Baan has also published photos of the Pavillion by Herzog de Meuron in the Jinhua Architecture Park we have previously discussed.

For very clever planning of apartments on a tight site have a look for Kazuo Sejima's Okurayama Apartments. The plan is beautiful. Iwan ...

Some of the work presented last week reminded me of the very beautiful "Garden and House" by Ryue Nishizawa. The image below is fr...

Huw Turner, one of your jurors , suggested I make you aware of Waro Kishi. A good idea. His website here . Image below from this website .

Caitlin has suggested a visit to the Art Gallery of NSW next Wednesday evening (18 May) see Caitlin's comments below ). I'd encourag...

Thanks Alessandro for the comment on Orozco below . I am a big fan too. I would love to see his La D.S. project (image below). You might a...

Huw Turner is a director of Collins and Turner . Huw has worked for Eva Jiricna, the Richard Rogers Partnership, Hassell Architects, was an ...

Tim Turner is a director of Constructive Dialogue Architects . The focus of Constructive Dialogue is community buildings - aged care, child ...

Georgina Blix, a relatively recent UTS graduate, has agreed to come in next week. Georgina works at Tzannes Associates . The image below is ...

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A few of my photos of the Kursaal in Donostia-San Sebastián by Rafael Moneo:

The roof access in Robbrecht en Daem's Dairy Project in Gaasbeek is quite lovely. Have a look by visiting their website (have a good lo...

Info at MVDRV's website . You can get quite a lot of images by doing a Google Image search for "MVRDV Hannover" Image below fr...

Gabriel Orozco's Four Bicycles (There is Always One Direction), 1994. From Art Tattler

The Brooklyn Digital Foundry has also made an animation of the Droog Town House (at Vimeo ): Droog Town House from Brooklyn Digital Foundr...

Dutch design company Droog collaborated with Atelier Bow Wow on the design of a townhouse in Amsterdam. It seems a hotel is also on the dr...

A well as being directed by Jean-Luc Godard , the film is based on a novel by Alberto Moravia and stars Brigitte Bardot , Michel Piccoli , ...

One of the buildings mentioned yesterday. Designed by the client, Curzio Malaparte with early work by Adalberto Libera . Built by Adolfo Am...

Studio Banana TV has interviewed Yoshiharu Tsukamoto of Atelier Bow Wow . It's worthwhile keeping an eye on what both Studio Banana TV ...

I trust you've all had a productive break (I had a quick study tour of Beijing - hence the silence). It's important you attend studi...

Gunnar Asplund's Stockholm Public Library Jože Plečnik's National and University Library of Slovenia Respective images (from Wikiped...

Louis Kahn's Exeter Library is also very well worthwhile to look at. Amongst the very many beautiful ideas is the use of carrels to arti...

Any time that you have to learn about Henri Labrouste's Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève is time very well spent. Images below from Wikiped...