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INTERVIEW: Open House Melbourne, with Emma Telfer

Dan — Fri, 12 Jul 2019 06:31:19 +0000

Join David and Dolly Diamond as they discuss all things architecture with Emma Telfer from Open House Melbourne.

Open House Melbourne is an independent organisation that fosters public appreciation for architecture and public engagement in conversations about the future of our cities. The much loved Open House weekend in Melbourne, Ballarat and now Bendigo sees tens of thousands of people coming out to celebrate architecture and the city.

By empowering people with knowledge around the impact of good design decisions in our built environment, Open House Melbourne aims to ensure Victoria—and its capital city—remains a liveable and vibrant place now and in the future.

Since 2008, Open House Melbourne has facilitated more than 900,000 visits to 934 sites across Melbourne, enabling 229,660 people to explore and celebrate their city. Open House has contributed more than $20 million to the Melbourne economy and has been supported by more than 5,226 volunteers who have donated over 26,130 hours of their time.

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INTERVIEW: Warren Kirk (Photographer) on his new book “Suburbia – The Familiar and Forgotten”

Pete — Wed, 14 Nov 2018 03:25:13 +0000

David and Sue talk to Warren Kirk who has been a documentary photographer for the last thirty years. He’s the photographer behind the acclaimed Westography and he lives and works in the west. His new book “Suburbia – The Familiar and Forgotten” which has been described as “a nostalgia-soaked coffee table book” and “a time capsule” of suburbia in Australia. So, if you love the photographic history of Australia as much as we do you’ll certainly want this book which is brimming with photos of living in the Australian suburbs. You can purchase it through most online platforms and at most good bookstores.

The book is described on the publisher’s website as:

“Warren Kirk’s photos will strike a chord with anyone who’s grown up in the Australian suburbs in the past 50 years. Somehow both achingly familiar and unimaginably strange, these luminous images continue his 30-year project of documenting a way of life that is slowly disappearing, along with the people who lived it.

Taken with loving attention and considerable skill, and with the utmost respect for the people and places that appear in them, Kirk’s photos of shops and houses, of gardens and lounge-rooms, of people surrounded by the things they love, are beautifully evocative and powerfully nostalgic.”

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INTERVIEW: Jodie & Martin on the St Kilda Foreshore Land Art Generator Project Winning Entry

Pete — Mon, 05 Nov 2018 05:43:14 +0000

David & Sue talk to Jodie from the Land Art Generator Initiative & Martin from NH Architecture about the St Kilda foreshore triangle design which was the winner of this year’s Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI) Competition. LAGI (Land Art Generator Initiative) 2018 was free and open to anyone around the world, and invited artists, architects, designers, landscape architects, scientists, engineers, and others to submit proposals for large-scale and site-specific public art installations that generate clean energy for a site in Melbourne. You can find out more on the LAGI website. The competition was supported by both the City of Port Phillip and the Victorian State Government.

The winning entry was the one by NH Architecture who describe their entry and winning the award on their website as follows:

“NH Architecture is delighted to have been awarded the winner of the 2018 Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI) competition for the entry “Light Up” – a large scale public arts and urban design initiative that produces clean energy.

The St Kilda Triangle was named as the site while previous design sites included Dubai, New York, Copenhagen and Santa Monica. This year, participants from more than fifty countries submitted concept proposals for the free global competition.

Designed in collaboration with Ark Resources, John Bahoric Design and RMIT Architecture, the proposal combines solar, wind, plant fuel-cell energy harvesting, and battery storage into the landscape of the St Kilda Foreshore.

Our design response is a lightweight tensile structure formed of some 8,600 solar panels that would create a light-filtering canopy over Jacka Boulevard, providing shade for visitors and improving links between existing public, pedestrian, and street networks. It would produce 2,220 megawatt hours of clean energy annually for the St Kilda Triangle site, enough to power nearly 500 Australian homes as well as Luna Park, and the Palais.”

And what an amazing, innovative entry it was.

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