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 [...]
The internet harnesses the wisdom of the crowd pretty much better than anything else. This morning I found Urbanspoon’s list of top 100 Melbourne restaurants as voted by their users. It’s a pretty good list!
What we need now:
a meta-list: i.e. a site which ranks the rankings. How do I know that Urbanspoon is the best [...]
Bank of New Zealand (Australia) Building, Corner Queens and Collins St, Melbourne. Who needs Gothic when you can have neo-Gothic?
Footscray is a suburb in Melbourne’s west that Pauline Hanson probably wouldn’t like. There are significant Vietnamese and African populations, and shops to match – no doubt a good place to find some phở or interesting African cafés.
You can go for an in-city holiday in Footscray. It’s a world away from where I live [...]
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.
