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Uneasy peace | Peter Stanley
The Great War: Aftermath and Commemoration Edited by Carolyn Holbrook and Keir Reeves | NewSouth | $34.99 | 296 pages Having published ten or so books about the Great War over the decade of what Australians tend to call the Anzac centenary, I must admit that I accepted the invitation to review this collection of essays, sight unseen, with trepidation. Like some of its subjects, I feel war-weary.
Where form really does follow function | Joe Rollo
808 words Where form really does follow function 15 December 2019 Architecture | The former ETA Foods factory still pulls at the heart strings Right: Irresistible: detail from Wolfgang Sievers’s photograph of the ETA Foods factory in 1960. Pictures Collection, State Library Victoria Irresistible: detail from Wolfgang Sievers’s photograph of the ETA Foods factory in 1960.
Jørn Utzon’s magnificent obsession | Joe Rollo
This essay is taken from Harry Seidler’s Umbrella: Selected Writings on Australian Architecture and Design, by Joe Rollo, published earlier this month by Thames & Hudson Australia. It was first published in 2004. Jørn Utzon and Richard Johnson are facing each other across a table strewn with drawings and sketches, in a room bathed in light.
How Melbourne became cool again
Melbourne’s famous laneways — like Centre Place, above — get most of the attention, but much more has changed around and within the city. Ozimages/Alamy Melbourne’s famous laneways — like Centre Place, above — get most of the attention, but much more has changed around and within the city. Ozimages/Alamy How was the City of Melbourne transformed from the “doughnut city” it had become in the 1970s, empty of life at the centre, into one of the world’s coolest and buzziest places?
The shock of the old
My earliest firsthand experience of a house designed by Robin Boyd was in 2006, when I (along with several hundred other Boyd fans) made the trek out to Long Forest, between Bacchus Marsh and Melton, about fifty kilometres west of Melbourne, for the auction of his Baker House from 1965.
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