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Category: Urban Islands

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An Update

Hi everyone. It has been a little quiet here for the last little while. I have been a little snowed under with client work the last fortnight, but am through the worst of it now. We should be picking up at the next Architectural Portfolio Design article very shortly.
In other exciting news – if you [...]

Urban Islands: National Geographi

Another project from Urban Islands – A fake National Geographic article from a distant future.

Urban Islands: Project Update

BLDGBLOG has updates and details on two of the student projects from Urban Islands 2009. Pop over and read about the Island of Future Airships and The Missing Buildings of Cockatoo Island.

Urban Islands: Participant Review

A great post from Nick, one of the participants in Urban Islands – well worth a read.

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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