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LANEWAY ART 2012
It is no secret that the City of Sydney is trying to change perceptions about the city’s laneways. The Laneways Art Project has been running for four years and this year we’re excited to be making our own interpretation of how public art can intersect with architecture. In collaboration with Sydney via New York artist Kim [...]
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blue city
Last nights architectural modelling workshop in the aboriginal caves of the australian museum was a great success. A bustling crowd of boisterous event-goers produced an architecturally diverse city in blue foam. Rem Koolhaas’ (OMA) ‘City of the Captive Globe Project’ provided thematic inspiration as each would-be architect took on the task of modelling their ideal [...]
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JURASSIC LOUNGE, KALDOR ART PROJECTS, THOMAS DEMAND AND STEPHEN COLLIER ARCHITECTS
As the sun sets on March 27th, Stephen Collier Architects has been commissioned by Kaldor Public Art Projects to help transform the Australian Museum into a hive of activity. Armed with blocks of blue foam and hot wire-cutters, we will be hosting an after-hours model-making workshop where we invite people to craft an image of [...]
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Lavender Bay Boatshed Video
Here are a few highlights from our latest site inspection at lavender bay blog – site walkthrough 22-12-2011 from Stephen Collier Architects on Vimeo.
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WHAT’S HAPPENING AT THE CORNER OF SOUTH DOWLING & FLINDERS STREETS IN SYDNEY?
In Spanish grammar, a written question is always preceded by an upside down question mark (¿) to alert the reader to the fact that the following words (or meanings as the case may be) are a question and not a statement.
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UNMADE BED BILLBOARDS
New York September 2009 Felix González Torres The last serendipitous day of my trip in New York. Managed to (finally) see one of the sweetest artistic commentaries on sexuality and politics, via the vast, beautiful and wistful image of an unmade bed located on billboards throughout Manhattan. The work was by the late Cuban-American artist González Torres who [...]
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CORNERS: THE BILLBOARDS PROJECT
At Sydney Customs House yesterday I unveiled the ideas and people behind a public art exhibit on the subject of corners. This was part of the Sydney Architecture Festival. The project consists of 2 public billboards at the intersection of South Dowling and Flinders Streets (Sydney) that forms the main eastern gateway into the city from [...]
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STEVEN HOLL
New York 24.09.09 Out of all the major buildings of note in New York one stands out for me as perhaps the most interesting in its simplicity and restraint. A tiny V shaped gallery space on Kenmare Street across the road from The Corner Café. A collaboration between Vito Acconci and Steven Holl it is a [...]
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FELIX GONZALEZ TORRES
New York23.09.09 I meet with Andrea Rosen from the Andrea Rosen Gallery, home of the Felix González Torres Foundation. The intersection that I made in my PhD between architecture, art, aesthetics, sexuality and politics can be attributed to his work. This connection made from a personal architectural perspective seems to be amongst those Rosen feels [...]
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GEHRY & LIBESKIND
Toronto September 2009 The best thing about Daniel Libeskind’s recently completed Royal Ontario Museum is the exit. In comparison, Frank Gehry’s Art Gallery of Ontario (completed late last year) is a great surprise. Both buildings entail new insertions and the restructuring of 19th century buildings. Gehry’s early work is extraordinary because you could see him struggling to turn his [...]
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