June 2012
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WatchBotany Bay Rock Pool
Have you ever stared into a rock pool on the beach and listened to the ocean? I did and can recommend it, this was taken in Botany Bay National Park one of our favourite local spots.
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Ashley Dunn + John Carrick present a paper at...
“The thermal comfort reality of some contemporary non air-conditioned architecture in the Australian climate; two case studies”.
Abstract:
The architectural professions are increasingly aware of the principles of Environmentally Sustainable Design (ESD). All of the buildings that the investigators have been involved in have aspired to minimise embodied energy and dramatically...
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May 2012
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IS THIS THE WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE WATER? →
Within the nationwide debate about the Murray-Darling Basin plan, one bitter dispute involving old friends turned adversaries, environmental destruction, and $83 million shows just how complicated it is to do the right thing with scarce water resources. Click link above to read article in The Global Mail.
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Fears for public safety as shooting approved in... →
Greens MP David Shoebridge says;
“There are regular fatalities in other jurisdictions, Victoria, New Zealand, across the Unites States and Canada,” he said.
“Passive users of National Parks do not mix with people with pig dogs bows and arrows and high powered hunting rifles.”
“The Government should know that the electorate knows that, but Barry O’Farrell has...
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Disgusted, Angry and Upset at Barry O'Farrell's... →
O’Farrell buys votes from Shooters and Fishers party by allowing Hunting of feral animals in 79 of NSW National Parks. We are sliding backwards at a rapid rate in the name economic of salvation. Click on link to take you to the SMH article.
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Architecture & Design Press →
Architecture & Design were nice enough to make us headline news today!
Dunn & Hillam Architects wins major project in...
Sydney, Monday 28 May 2012: Sydney-based design and architecture firm Dunn & Hillam Architects has won a major contract to masterplan & design new facilities for a new world-class camping facility in central Australia’s largest national park, the extraordinary West MacDonnell National Park west of Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia.
Dunn & Hillam, a multiple award...
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Workshop 1 Dunn & Hillam Architects simplify...
After 11 years of being somewhat bemused by our own two-tiered name & logo, we have finally cut the Workshop 1 free from the Dunn & Hillam.
We will now be known simply as Dunn & Hillam Architects. Our new logo looks like this:
We can be found at www.dunnhillam.com.au
and contacted at admin@dunnhillam.com.au
Please amend your contact list accordingly. We remain at our studio in...
‘Better design quality is generally achieved by...
While doing a bit of light reading of the British Columbia Park Design Guide and Data 1996, I came across this little gem. Not quoted from some famous architect or philosopher but just there in amongst text describing building stone fireplaces in picnic areas. Author David D. Brown. Nice work David !
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Kids Who Get Driven Everywhere Don't Know Where... →
April 2012
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March 2012
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January 2012
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December 2011
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Theorising the Project: A Thematic Approach to...
I went to a talk last Tuesday held at the NSW Institute of Architects. The talk was given by Dr Michael Tawa, Professor of Architecture at Sydney University. The occasion was to launch his new book; Theorising the Project. To see, hear and feel Tawa’s ruminations on architecture lifted me and reminded me that it is all worth it in the end. The slide show that ran on a loop was one of the...
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November 2011
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Ai Wei Wei’s Forever Bicycles
via gizmodo
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Junee Library Energy + Water Savings Evaluation
Junee Library Energy Savings Evaluation
We have just received our first energy and water savings analysis for the Library we completed in 2009. A massive 96% saving in potable water consumption and a 21% saving in energy use compared to best practice baseline figures. Visit our website to see the Library, link below:
http://www.dunnhillam.com.au/projects/juneelibrary.html
Here are the figures...
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The Art of City Making
We went to the Sydney City Talk on Wednesday evening to hear Charles Landry discuss the role imagination and creativity plays in the development of cities. The panel discussion that followed raised a number of poignant issues, our pick were:
Rod Simpson’s first point to get the discussion rolling was that we need to broaden our understanding of the city and that it is vital that we include...
October 2011
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Laurie Baker's Architectural Principles →
Here are the 20 architectural principles on which the architect Laurie Baker based his practice. I agree with all of them, a man ahead of his time.
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Hold the Press ! Architects are Useful !
So, have you read the BER Taskforce Report ? We did. There were a number of interesting things within the report.
For example;
there were some fantastic success stories, mostly in WA. Where was the good press?
the cost of building wasn’t actually that much on average in NSW. Only about $3,500 per square meter and I think that includes the 20-25% fees that the project managers of...