Archive for July, 2009
Urban Islands: Participant Review
A great post from Nick, one of the participants in Urban Islands – well worth a read.
Photos this week
It’s been a little while between the weekly photo posts (while I was covering Urban Islands), but wait no longer. Here is the next installment…
Melbourne Redesigned
Last week Robert Doyle, the Lord Mayor of Melbourne, unveiled the identity that will represent the City of Melbourne into the future. The previous logo was created in the early 90’s, and this update is definitely an improvements – a symbol for a city boldly pushing forwards.
Rising Tide
Some great visualisations and graphics from the Rising Tides competition.
Urban Islands: The Review Day
Last Saturday was the review day for Urban Islands 2009 – both the culmination and then end point of the two week workshop. All the students and instructors, along with a large number if distinguished guests, headed out to the island to view, critique and discuss the finished projects.
Urban Islands: Geoff’s Studio
This is the second of the more detailed looks at the three studios being run for Urban Islands – loosely based around the mid-review of the workshops last Monday. (You can find the previous reviews here and here). The second studio is being run by Geoff Manaugh who ”presents architecture news and conjecture to-the-minute via his acclaimed blog BLDGBLOG” [...]
Urban Islands: Mark’s Studios
This is the second of the more detailed looks at the three studios being run for Urban Islands – loosely based around the mid-review of the workshops last Monday. (You can find the first review here). The second studio is being run by Mark Smout who is ”a Lecturer at the Bartlett School of Architecture, and builds architectural [...]
Urban Islands: Mette’s Studio
This is the first of the more detailed looks at the three studios being run for Urban Islands – loosely based around the mid-review of the workshops last Monday. The first studio is being run by Mette Ramsgard Thomsen - ”an interdisciplinary architect currently working on a series of projects under the heading Robotic Membranes”.
Urban Islands: The Mid-Review
Yesterday I was graciously invited by Joanne to come in and sit in on the Urban Islands mid-review. It is midway through the 2 week workshops, so the instructors and their studios were presenting how the progress was going.
Urban Islands: Photographically
The photos from the day trip to Cockatoo Island with the Urban Islands crew have now been processed and uploaded. It’s much easier to show you what Cockatoo Island is like rather than describe it, so take a look! You can see the whole set of images over here.
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