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Thank Janet – your house sounds lovely. Well done for hanging on to it – and I hope it lasts…
Nemo – I live in a two-story timber framed concrete/stucco house built in 1940 for a photographer who worked at…
I’m wondering – is it the preponderance of concrete that makes people say “ugly” – so, does a new building…
Agreed – that one, I think most people might agree, is definitely NOT fugly. It’s quite cool.
Hi Mark, correct, but you still get a sense of volume at the stairs, and you get sun from both…
Potty-mouth comments were a direct quote from Succession – which can of course be excised. “Shit show in a fuck…
Oh Nemo my friend – you excel yourself !!!!! I have a very serious suggestion to make. This is so…
Apparently the cost for the demolition is in the millions because they can’t just blow it up with all of…
Correct. The facade is <34% NBS which dictates it's earthquake prone status. Removing that and adding a new skin and…
Minor correction to a great post. Unfortunately the often quoted double height spaces do not exist in this building. Living…
From that generation, I’d chuck in the Victory Flats in Berhampore.
I’m going to go with the green-tiled building on Manners St that Athfields did for Telecom in the 1980s -…
Are the old State Insurance Building and the old Defence Building in Stout Street big enough to be large? There…
No one has answered this last question yet…
Hi Shirley, lovely to see you pop up here – you are a LEGEND !!! I’d love to give you…
KLK – you miss my point. Demolition costs serious money. The University has zero spare dollars. Therefore, who would pay…
I used to think this until it was pointed out to me that no-one with money has been given the…
“. . . how much can they screw it up?” Well that’s a dangerous question. Hopefully we never find out.…
Gordon Wilson was Government Architect when I started as a draughting cadet in 1953 in the Ministry of Works. It’s…
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