This guy is a wrecking machine and he’s hungry!
Scottie came and took some pictures of our Apartments. He kept quoting 'Rocky' films (yes...all of them...). It was annoying. But he shot some lovely views.
Raw like sushi… Or the story of the misunderstood brutes of concrete architecture
Honey Fingers has a think about brutalist buildings. A little history. A little romance. And how maybe likening them to sushi may have changed everything.
What matters?
What matters is the need to democratise architecture... Written by Nikos Kalogeropoulos for "Architecture: What Matters?" presented by Sibling at the NGV.
The Don
Don Cameron is the film director that helped co-create, design and curate the rooms at Hotel Hotel (alongside Nectar of Molonglo Group and Ken of Darlinghurst). Yes film director.
Perfect Imperfect
Karen McCartney talked to us more about her most recent book, 'Perfect Imperfect', which will be launched along with an accompanying exhibition at Hotel Hotel’s Nishi Gallery at the end of the month.
Gamper
The curator of Design Hub, Fleur Watson, interviewed Martino Gamper and together they reflected on the impact of ‘100 Chairs in 100 Days’ on Martino’s expanding practice.
The story telling animals
Chris and Barrie Barton are the brothers from Right Angle Studio – a little studio whose motto is thoughts, words, deeds.
The Prophet and the Dreamer
A story about Sydney artist George Raftopoulos’ latest works. And how they play with the notion of the migrant identity or absence thereof.
Scenario three: ‘Localism’…More equality but worse infrastructure.
When the lights flicker off, the noise of diesel generators spreads across the neighbourhood. You’ve actually got a little coal turbine out on the patio, so you get up from your table...
Scenario one: ‘Current Trends’… Less equality and better infrastructure
So a lot has happened over the course of twenty years, some of it good, some of it not so good, some of it tragic, most of it pretty unpredictable.