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respecting craftEARTHBOUNDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06961850253935016460noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8077965398314650479.post-18607625100957667512016-09-21T16:27:00.000-07:002016-09-21T16:27:37.783-07:00what's worth saving?<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sad to hear that this building is slated for demolition, as I recall it well, having spend a good part of my late teens and early twenties crossing the Harbour bridge passing it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Brutalist styling isn't for everyone, but Ive always been impressed by how simple the actual design is and how it's modular nature informed a facade that managed to blend into the surrounding streetscape. Maybe it's because I'd seen it for so long that it never felt an imposition which is so often the characterisation of Brutalist buildings, but it's a simple form that's articulated really well in my eyes.</span><br />
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<br />EARTHBOUNDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06961850253935016460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8077965398314650479.post-53187208351077369162016-09-19T07:01:00.003-07:002016-09-19T07:01:47.136-07:00sanctuary<br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Love the form of this building - </span><span style="color: #303030; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Midden Garden Pavilion / Metropolis Design</span><br />
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<span style="color: #303030; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">such an elegant simple form </span><br />
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<span style="color: #303030; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">floating yet still anchored to the ground</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Found this link recently, and was pleased to see an under-funded group receiving some recognition, albeit in the form of an award by a multi-national...but better than not I guess?</span><br />
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2014 Holcim Awards for Sustainable Construction</h3>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Great looking project in Sri Lanka working at re-skilling ex soldiers to do positive community building projects, designed by an Australian trained local I believe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been off air for some time...studying architecture and becoming a father have been great learning curves. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the interim, I've been watching, experiencing, growing...... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a new cubby house - lasted 18 months </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and then recycled</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'd like to share a recent comment I came across, by Jonathon Ive - head designer for Apple, </span>http://www.dezeen.com/2014/11/13/design-education-tragic-says-jonathan-ive-apple/<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Avoiding his criticism on the state of design skills in the world today, due in part to the tendency of education to be driven by computer based designing rather than the physical ability to make an item, I picked up on a couple of interesting points....</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"It's made it better. There's integrity there. You hope that people can tell the difference."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">I pride myself on our integrity, both in workmanship but in attempting to be transparent in our costings. For most people, it's the biggest investment they will make in their lives...surely you'd like to know how the money is being spent...is it on a thoughtfully designed well-built home, or on a house that will need repairs and maintenance sooner than later due to poor material and design choices?</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The sad thing is that so much of what we're surrounded by in the physical world that is a product of manufacture, so much of it testifies to carelessness. The one good thing about that is if you do care it is really conspicuous."</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;">I feel that our work </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">stands out as unique and considered....rare in this homogenous world. Not purely to create a statement, but because there are better ways to do things than just reproducing what's been done before...and because when we design we consider the best way to make our home's last...be it site position, design detailing, material choice, or purely how we install. It's an all encompassing regime.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">The detail is in the design...considered from the very beginning. </span></span><br />
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<div class="tabTitleh2" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><h2 style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"Design Philosophy</h2></div><div class="profileContent" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">I design a house instead of a building. The house is the amateur architecture approach to the infinitely spontaneous order.<br style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Built spontaneously, illegally and temporarily, amateur architecture is equal to professional architecture. But amateur architecture is just not significant.<br style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />One problem of professional architecture is, that it thinks too much of a building. A house, which is close to our simple and trivial life, is more fundamental than architecture. Before becoming an architect, I was only a literati. Architecture is part time work to me. For one place, humanity is more important than architecture while simple handicraft is more important than technology.<br style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />The attitude of amateur architecture, - though first of all being an attitude towards a critical experimental building process -, can have more entire and fundamental meaning than professional architecture. For me, any building activity without comprehensive thoughtfulness will be insignificant."</div><div class="profileContent" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><br />
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such a shame that so much design<br />
and construction today is based on dollar value, energy consumed and saved and the like...<br />
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Wang's modesty in saying " amateur architecture is just not significant" belies the true value of simple creative spirit in homes.<br />
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How do you "value" creative input?<br />
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Can a feeling be given a tangible value?<br />
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Designed by myself in conjunction with the owners, it was an interesting study in renovations<br />
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The site is heavily overlooked by all the houses around it due to being the lowest site in the street. Everyone could look into the backyard and the existing house was very small - one bedroom effectively so there was nowhere to escape the streetscape and neighbours.<br />
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Paramount was to create comfortable living areas that gave northerly sunny aspect, yet reduced the opportunity for the neighbours and passers-by to look into the house.<br />
We aimed to create a separation between the original and new sections of the house so it could become a separate section for visiting family and their kids and the new living/ kitchen/dining area and master bedroom.<br />
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The new dwelling has a beautiful ambience, with a sense of privacy that will only be enhanced by the plantings once they grow to screening height. Light, playful and open, with a spacious courtyard garden allowing interaction with the outdoors.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Dining to Kitchen view - monolithic rammed earth wall, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">custom heavy timber "floating" joinery on the wall. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The contrast between simple palettes enhances the connection </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">between dwelling and site.</div>EARTHBOUNDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06961850253935016460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8077965398314650479.post-12219607782080741842011-08-28T09:47:00.000-07:002011-08-28T09:47:36.132-07:00RESPECT-1we have been very fortunate to have help from a family of amazing joiners - the Turners<br />
always willing to help<br />
always full of life and good humour<br />
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boat builders<br />
traditional heavy timber framers<br />
ecologists in the real word<br />
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they have my utmost respect and love<br />
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andrew created the amazing traditional japanese joinery in the salvaged oregon beam structure that supports our main bedroom.<br />
mortise and tenoned, spline joints<br />
dove tail was my little addition to his craftsmanship<br />
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i learnt so much working alongside andrew.<br />
his oldest son Rye is an accomplished luthier as well<br />
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much respect<br />
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</div>a nice aside is that the beams are 300x150mm and average 7.2m long.<br />
they were 15 m long when pulled out of the old army warehouse in sydney!<br />
I love the contrast of a strong structural element against the simple white palette.<br />
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claudia gabriel limEARTHBOUNDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06961850253935016460noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8077965398314650479.post-23496067594354379402011-08-28T09:30:00.000-07:002011-08-28T09:30:22.419-07:00SIMPLICITY"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication"<br />
Leonardo da Vinci<br />
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our house...<br />
learning the language of architecture<br />
a reflection of the beautiful local trees<br />
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detailed timber work is our forte<br />
key is creating a clean simple palette to allow the details to present themselves<br />
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salvaged oregon 12x6" beam<br />
salvaged brushbox flooring<br />
natural paint finishes<br />
all natural lighting<br />
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EARTHBOUNDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06961850253935016460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8077965398314650479.post-51252375439463416682011-08-25T06:38:00.000-07:002011-08-25T06:38:38.121-07:00ARTMartin Worthington is my hero!<br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">I have been enthralled by his work for as long as I can remember being interested in surfing. I recall seeing my uncle's 70's Surfing World magazines with crazy ad's for Hot Buttered boards with Martin's Psychedelic work.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">I've met him several times and he has been so humble about his work, which I consider part of the evolution of Australian surf-lore.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">I'm fortunate to have several boards with Martin's amazing work on it.</div><br />
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Typically most people think that his work is only on Hot Buttered boards, but actually he has been the production sprayer for many well known labels over the years. I have a very cool Aloha sprayed by Martin in '82 ( thanks Adam), and a beaten up classic Tom Curren Channel Islands also sprayed by him.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Great Greg Clough shape with textured deck and Worthington 80's spray</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Martin graciously signed this one for me<br />
Dig the rockets!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Quirky almost bonzer fin set up - early thruster experiment</td></tr>
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Check out Kye Fitz's blog for a cool insight into Martin and his work. There are some seriously nice boards ridden beautifully by Kye!<br />
http://www.doublewingflyer.blogspot.com/<br />
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Here's one of Kye's own boards; A 5'10' Modern Drifta<br />
Shaped by the man himself - TF, with inspirational spray by Martin!<br />
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EARTHBOUNDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06961850253935016460noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8077965398314650479.post-33909213731263748992011-08-20T22:18:00.000-07:002011-08-20T22:18:03.511-07:00IMPERMANENCEAlways the same....<br />
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We tried to save them one year, they refused food, rested, but really didn't recover well. Upon release one took off never to return, the other was harried by the local sea eagle, despite our best warding off attempts. Foolish of us to interfere.<br />
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I have left them alone from them on, despite how forlorn it seems.<br />
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Next season we had more luck helping a beautiful sea snake that had been washed down the coast by the strong NE storm swells that time. They are amazing - so colourful, so feared, yet harmless to humans and absolutely beautiful to see it the ocean.EARTHBOUNDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06961850253935016460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8077965398314650479.post-75572448767190980272011-08-18T20:55:00.000-07:002011-08-18T20:55:46.264-07:00SPACEalways searching for new expressions of space<br />
private and intimate are coveted<br />
peace from the madding crowds<br />
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as our life becomes ever increasingly public, I crave the cubby house above the trees, or a little cave, hidden that I can peak out from to watch the days travails.<br />
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Solace in natureEARTHBOUNDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06961850253935016460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8077965398314650479.post-57847911258976851672011-08-18T20:13:00.000-07:002011-08-18T20:13:54.144-07:00TEXTUREwalking at the beach with dog and son<br />
sky held a real sense of foreboding<br />
sand was crisp<br />
ocean was raw yet warm<br />
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when we reached the rocks, i found a treasure trove of tactile joy<br />
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EARTHBOUNDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06961850253935016460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8077965398314650479.post-47179317911598051502011-08-18T18:57:00.000-07:002011-08-18T18:57:11.478-07:00MOODso often a feeling is what drives an idea<br />
how to describe that<br />
that's the challenge<br />
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