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You'll blush when you flush in this loo with a view
Monica Bonvicini: odours and mirrors.
(SMH 26.12.03)

Push to preserve Taroona pub's style
Art Deco Society not happy about approved demolition of a streamlined moderne hotel.
(Hobart Mercury 24.12.03)

Add colour, and city dowagers trip the light fantastic
Martin Kinnane, lighting designer, to highlight forgotten architecture of Sydney's CBD.
(SMH 24.12.03)

Heritage council cloud over landmark building
Heritage Council gives T&G building a provisional listing after redevelopment announced.
(Townsville Bulletin 23.12.03)

Top that! A taller storey of towering ambition
Secular spires confuse the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.
(Age 22.12.03)

Suburb to undergo heart transplant
Richard Francis-Jones and FJMT attempt to insert public space into Chatswood.
(SMH 22.12.03)

A view of the city
Norman Day surveys the good and the bad of Melbourne architecture 2003.
(Age 22.12.03)

Twisting New York skyscraper to replace twin towers
Final tower design unveiled.
(Stuff NZ 20.12.03)

QVB to vamp in a dash of bold colour
Queen Victoria Building to get a colourful tart up by Ken Woolley.
(SMH 19.12.03)

Developer challenges student's figures
A 13 year old school girl wins a science award for disputing a developer's claims about cast shadows.
(NZ Herald18.12.03)

Dentists pull top salaries
And architecture graduates draw the lowest, $28,800, which is about $5000 below the architects award rate...
(Herald Sun 16.12.03)

Heritage postcards celebrate local architecture
North Shore City Council finally realises it has some very special modernist houses.
(Scoop NZ 15.12.03)

It's enough to make an architect walk the planks
Ed Lippmann not very happy at changes to the Boy Charlton pool complex.
(SMH 15.12.03)

Sorry, but the new NGV is a failure
Michael Rahill's opinion of the alterations.
(Age 15.12.03)

Residents prisoners of lesser lights
Ivanhoe ho ho. Something seasonal. I wonder if they needed planning permits.
(Age 14.12.03)

New rail proposal not the favoured option
Multiplex plans for a Fed Square in Perth not cheered.
(WestOz 13.12.03)

Architects in clash of towering egos
Libeskind and Childs not chummy any more.
(Oz 12.12.03)

Made to Measure
Artists playing with scale: Callum Morton and Peter Booth.
(SMH 13.12.03)

Future up in the air for Afghani youths
One year 12 refugee on a TPV is determined to study architecture here.
(7.30Report 12.12.03)

Big Things - The Man Who Makes Them
Big rams, aphrodites, and buddhas and how to build them out of GRC (glass reinforced concrete).
(ABC 12.12.03)

Architecture can make or break a city
This editorial comes down against the St James apartments proposal in Auckland.
(NZH 11.12.03)

Big Pineapple survives
One of Queensland's architectural wonders is almost juiced.
(Age 11.12.03)

A primal art-space fills in the blanks
Anti-icon infill? Farrelly dissects the NGV renovations by Bellini, in Melbourne.
(SMH 09.12.03)

$200m buys Britomart a new look
Britomart - the sequel. The contract for above ground works is being let to a developer consortium, what they will do exactly is 'secret'. No mention of stage 1 architect Mario Madayag.
(NZH 29.11.03)

Home, cheap home
High prices driving people to become owner-builders and use mud brick. “I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone with a shaky relationship,” said one owner-builder.
(Age 27.11.03)

Brilliant career took root at garden party
Gabriel Poole's lucky break.
(Courier Mail 27.11.03)

Sketch me if you can
A backgrounder article to Sydney's Esquisse event.
(SMH 27.11.03)

Architects oppose 'ugly' apartment tower in Auckland
The St James is about to get very big. Here is the council press release from September 14, only showing a historic photo.
(NZH 26.11.03)

Breaking China
8 Australian architects hawk their wares in China.
(SMH 25.11.03)

TarraWarra builds on tax break
Norman Day reviews Allan Powell's new Healesville gallery.
(Age 24.11.03)

Auckland ferry passengers to wait in style
The increasingly busy ferry terminal quays are about to get swathed in what looks like sail cloth. They're not trying to be Christo, they're wanting an airport feel.
(NZH 24.11.03)

Home, cheap home
High prices driving people to become owner-builders and use mud brick. “I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone with a shaky relationship,” said one owner-builder.
(Age 27.11.03)

Construction site fatality reinforces importance of building control regime
Auckland City Council goes after developer.
(BIA 17.11.03)

Home smart home
UTS and CSIRO go nana over nano technology's possibilities in the home.
(SMH 25.11.03)

Facelift for Arc de Triomphe
Tart up for arc.
(Age 13.11.03)

Genius doesn't mean pleasure
Farrelly on genius, Seidler and the 'pig and whistle, moral rights, Wright, Corb and the Sydney Architecture Walk.
(SMH 11.11.03)

Building upon the judgements of the past
Norman Day reviews a book revisiting award-winning buildings in Melbourne.
(Age 10.11.03)

The Big Squeeze: Cities that grow up in style
Auckland has been looking to Portland, Vancouver and Sydney for waterfront and apartment ideas.
(NZH 09.11.03)

Barcelona readies for forum feast
Herzog and de Meuron have gone green for a blue building. The triangular building in Barcelona will be the centre for a major forum on sustainable development.
(ABC 07.11.03)

AUT builds $35m school
Big building for central Auckland, JASMAX to design it.
(Market NZ 07.11.03)

Council wants to inject life into Hargreaves Mall
Bendigo desparately seeking architect to fix hippy car-free mall. The architect will, "revive and update it from the 1970s concept that saw the area closed to traffic."
(Bendigo Advertiser 06.11.03)

City plan praised
Newcastle draft master plan. Plan for the inner city is, "a civic and cultural precinct different to the suburban shopping malls."
(The Star 06.11.03)

Wedge politics
Melbourne 2030. Contradictions in the metropolitan plan are aired, and Delahunty goes hammers and Tongs with Yarra. Meanwhile the city edge keeps on creeping.
(Age 06.11.03)

This square should be roundly condemned
Melbourne. Veteran broadcaster launches broadside at Fed Square.
(Age 02.11.03)

Blank faces a blot on skyline
Aucklanders grizzle about the many many lousy apartment buildings that have gone up.
(NZH 02.11.03)

Australia remembers its war dead
London war memorial.
(Age 02.11.03)

Keeping house for Vali
Melbourne. Nicholas Building studios of artist Vali Myers to be opened to the public.
(Age 01.11.03)

Daring architect eyes Acland Street
Rijavec gets on the front page with this intro! "He is known as "Cheese-grater Ivan", a daring - some would say audacious - architect..."
(Age 01.11.03)



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