September 2010
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Listen to Sufjan Stevens, 'The Age Of Adz'
We’re big fans of Sufjan Stevens in our office. Today we had our first listen to his forthcoming album The Age of Adz streaming on NPR. Just as previous Sufjan albums, it’s truly wonderful!
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Steve Jobs' iPlans for New House
Gizmodo recently featured Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs’ conceptual plans to replace the dilapidated Jackling Estate.
“According to these initial designs, Jobs intends to populate the 6 acres with an assortment of indigenous flora; a simple three-car garage; a modest 5 bedroom home with plenty of windows and decks; a network of lighted stone walkways; and even a private vegetable...
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Faber-Castell 250th Anniversary Birthday Boxset
Faber-Castell 250th Anniversary Birthday Boxset. Limited to 1761 copies, the number corresponding to the German company’s date of creation.
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Beware of Skippy
My kind of Road Sign
Making Sustainability Sexy. Recent interview with... →
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Moon lamps by in-es.artdesign
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Creative Bike Storage
Bike Shelf by designer Chris Brigham. Check out his website ‘Knife and Saw’ for his other great furniture designs and graphic work.
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The Story of Eames Furniture
Comprehensive two volume, 800 page-book by former Eames Office employees Marilyn Neuhart with her husband John Neuhart.
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Quad Shelving Unit by Nauris Kalinauskas
Stunning Quad Shelving Unit by designer Nauris Kalinauskas. Stained plywood shelves with powder-coated backing.
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Nearly Finished
This is a renovation of a Heritage listed theatre in south western nsw. About 1 month to go to completion.
Just Finished
This is a renovation we have just finished south of Sydney
Workshop Yoga
Vijoleta Braach-Maksvytis (a past client of ours) is teaching us yoga on Wednesday lunch times. Vijoleta’s website is: www.sensesandstillness.com
Bright Young Things 2
On Thursday (23 Sept 2010) we’ll be going to the Bright Young Things 2 night. We presented at the first one. The idea for this second event is that some of the people who were in the audience at BYT 01 have now the right of reply. Bright Young Things is a social/ professional forum which sets out to bring the forward edge in architecture, planning, development, councils, politics and...
Tuesday Night Talks at Tusculum
Tuesday 21 Sept, 2010 Ashley will be speaking at the Institute of Architects (3 Manning St, Potts Point) about our studio building Workshop 1. In a short presentation Ashley will cover topics such as architecture under $2000/ m2, living a mixed use development (otherwise known as life/work balance/chaos), the changing face of Botany’s industrial landscape and the contradictory meanings of...
You can't set out to make something beautiful, in...
I was watching a documentary on Anish Kapoor last night (SBS 8.30pm..I think it was called A Year with Anish Kapoor) and he said something like this. I didn’t get it down exactly, so it’s a paraphrase.
Anyway, it seems unwise to say much about it. But it seemed to me to be very true.
