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architecture and design

Urban development rubbish

the property industry looks for sympathy

You have to cringe when you see how easily the property lobby take the public for ride with misleading information published as serious article in The Age – being Melbourne main newspaper.

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Visiting National Trust Como House

Exhibition: Traces of Girlhood

On Saturday 7th Sept 2024 in Melbourne, we travelled over to South Yarra to visit a National Trust property, Como House. Till 20th October it is open house on the weekend (see times below)

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Councillors who fence sit their constituents

what priority given to urban aesthetics?

The October 2024 local government elections provide Melbourne residents with the opportunity to examine the record of their councillors on the key issue of development and the reshaping of the amenities and aesthetics of their suburbs, the place they have chosen to invest in for the rest of their lives.

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How many storeys are inappropriate?

Ivanhoe Urban Architecture

Political spin justifies anything

Recently in The Age (19th July 2024) several local politicians and a few ‘experts’ spoke of  the coming of apartments towers to the central areas of Ivanhoe with the emphasis on those sites nearer the railway station.

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Councils and high street architecture

Ivanhoe Urban Architecture

On the main intersection on Upper Heidelberg Road in the middle of the Ivanhoe shopping strip, stands this building that I think is all about the real estate agency on the first floor – meaning I suspect the real estate is also on the upper floors. On the ground floor are two businesses.

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