Writing, editing & publishing, mostly words on design & cities.
Melbourne, Australia
Joined May 2010
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I had a great chat last Friday with author @PennyCraswell about her fantastic new book Design Lives Here, which captures Australian design objects right at home, in Australian architecture & interiors! Watch the video of the interview online here: uropublications.com/blogs/ne…
Forgotten histories, missing people library.mpavilion.org/living… The first in the Living Cities podcast series that @A_A_Mackenzie & I are hosting for @MPavilion explores the visible & invisible legacies of colonialism (& outright racism) permeating our cities
On the outskirts of Brisbane, an urban drain takes on a life of its own foreground.com.au/parks-plac… living, breathing hydrological infrastructure that can change shape over time, in the middle of the burbs. Truly remarkable stuff from @Landscapology @alanhoban & @IpswichCouncil
Gothic cathedral meets... mega-mall? architectsjournal.co.uk/buil… I visited the new @MakeArchitects addition to Chaddy back in April for this @ArchitectsJrnal review. I never thought I'd feel nostalgic for a shopping centre, but here we are...
What happens when living heritage becomes dead wood?
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Thank you to the @BoydFoundation for sharing with me their efforts to give a 'significant tree' a suitable send-off (& to find a suitable replacement!)
Rudofsky gave us architecture without architects, Julia Watson gives us infrastructure without engineers foreground.com.au/culture/ju… I thoroughly enjoyed talking with Watson for @ForegroundNews about this hopeful, quietly radical book
Stripes & folds! A huge pleasure working with @RMIT & @okinterrupt on this book on the influence of Edmond & Corrigan on Australia’s architectural culture. Hardback out now through @UroPublications in a limited edition uropublications.com/collecti…
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European plazas are becoming increasingly less comfortable places as summer temperatures soar, prompting Gunther Vogt to say "This is interesting for me: aside from climate change, what is the cultural change?" #landscapearchitect
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"Just like Yencken’s Greening of Swanston, there will always be debate about what makes good public space. And that is exactly why we need more radical ideas for our cities" foreground.com.au/public-dom… @AILA_National @msdsocial Future Park ideas competition yields some good crazy
I went on a deep dive editing this fantastic, free-ranging interview between landscape architect Gunther Vogt & @ForegroundNews foreground.com.au/cities/gun… one memorable discovery? Ladakh has infrastructural ice 'stupas'...
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Nightingale Village in Melbourne’s inner north is using the power of the collective to pioneer a potent new model of #SustainableDevelopment. #neighborhood @NightingaleAus @morelandcouncil foreground.com.au/planning/m…
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“Public space should not be managed as a business” Apple is out of Fed Square. For now. Citizens for Melbourne explain the issues, as well as possibilities for the future... @FedSquare @taniadavidge @Red_Black_Archi @jameslesh #FedSquare @HeritageVic foreground.com.au/public-dom…
No matter what shade of lipstick, @apple, it's still just a greedy grab for a chunk of Melbourne's most high profile public space architectureau.com/articles/… #FedSquareNOTAppleSquare
“Designers must be accountable & state clearly what & who they are fighting for” - Pierre Bélanger
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In Tasmania, Playstreet is bringing child-life back to urban wilderness foreground.com.au/public-dom…
To make cities that work for children, we’ll have to overcome our culture of fear foreground.com.au/cities/mak…
Wow: 'Gaudí's first built house set to open to public for first time' -Spain calling (even more loudly than usual) dezeen.com/2017/05/25/antoni…
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Perry Lethlean on Episodic Urbanism - a testament to Peter Elliott's "mastery of the architecture of public space" architectureau.com/articles/…
Artist Stephen Wiltshire draws a bird's eye panorama of Mexico City after 1 afternoon’s viewing & 5 days of drawing news.nationalgeographic.com/…
The formerly fusty @nytimes looks like it might not only survive, but thrive, in the digital media space wired.com/2017/02/new-york-t…