Month: May 2017
In the future, everything will be significant for 15 minutes
As the great American artists; Andy Warhol stated in 1968; in the future, everybody will be famous for 15 minutes;...
Read moreWestconnex Disconnex
Recently, WestConnex has produced a salvage record of demolished houses in Campbell Street, St Peters in NSW. 11 houses have...
Read moreRose Bay Heritage
In 2013, when the owners purchased the heritage-listed timber cottage at 23 Spencer Street, Rose Bay, the building was in...
Read moreHeritage and the Concept of Beauty
Chris Beer writes (Arbitrating Relatively Good Design: The Aesthetic Governance of Australia’s Cities) that ‘the proposition that the urban built...
Read moreHeritage Policy – Australian Institute of Architects (AIA)
It was only recently that I came across a set of heritage policies put out by the thenRoyal Australian Institute...
Read moreHeritage Policy – Short, Sharp & Succinct
On 7 April 2016, Bass Coast Planning Scheme in Victoria, Australia released its cultural heritage policy. It is an interesting...
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