I don’t like Ashton Raggart McDougall’s design philosophy. I can’t like every architecture firm’s work, and I’ll pay that their work is distinctive. I don’t mind if they get commissions to build freestanding buildings like the Melbourne Recital Centre.
What I really don’t like is Ashton Raggart McDougall being allowed to desecrate iconic modernist 80s architecture [...]
Bank of New Zealand (Australia) Building, Corner Queens and Collins St, Melbourne. Who needs Gothic when you can have neo-Gothic?
I love the Nicholas Building. It is dilapidated in the best possible way. I wish I were a jeweller or artist so I could have a studio there. Complete camera roll here.
Yes I am one of those suburban types who likes to pour scorn on anything beyond the perimeter of my usual traversal – i.e. anything much beyond, say, Camberwell in the East, Yarraville in the West, Brunswick in the North and Brighton in the South. And that’s being generous. But I had heard whispers that [...]
I went to Hobart. It’s nice, but there isn’t a convenience store in the CBD and everything looks seriously shut at 8pm. One thing I like about Hobart is it spiritedness. In parts it epitomises the “cool village” – and the determination of its community to punch above its weight in cool. Another thing I [...]
