Home is where the architecture is – update #4

One of the advantages of not having a job for the last couple of months is that it has given me time to do some work on my house, and in particular with the weather rather good it meant quite a bit of work on the outside of the house could be done.

Architects with moustaches

With it being Movember and all and also the fact that I myself am participating in this worthwhile charity I thought it would be a great opportunity to take a look at some architects who sported and still are sporting moustaches during their careers.

Wanted: A chair just like this

You may or may not have noticed a lack of action on the “Home is where the architecture is” front of late but nevertheless there has been some action, most of it in the garden and mostly very boring.

Won over by Westwyck

Last Sunday was Sustainable House Day in Melbourne and seeing that it was nice day out I thought I would check out some of the houses that were open to the public.

Lighting up Gertrude Street

The Gertrude Street Projection Festival 2011 was on over the last few weeks. I managed to pop down and have a look last Friday just before it finished and took these photos.

LightCycle 2011

Friday night saw the opening of the exhibition of entries for the 2011 Electrolight LightCycle competition held at the Donkey Wheel House. For those who don’t know LightCycle is a sustainable light fixture design competition run by Electrolight where entrants are given a new LED light-bulb and are asked to create a light fixture that is beautiful while embodying the principles of environmental sustainability.  Here are some of the entries that grabbed my attention and managed to be photographed using my iPhone.

MIFF 2011: Films of interest

With the Melbourne International Film Festival about to kick off tomorrow, it’s again time to take a look at the films that may be of interest to the architectural/design types out there.

AAMI Park all a glow

The other night I got the chance to take a look at AAMI Park on a guided tour organised by the AIA. As a massive football fan I visit the stadium on an almost weekly basis during the A-League season I was actually more interested in seeing some of the behind the scene facilities that makes up a large part of the stadium that the general public don’t get to see. Unfortunately for all of us on the tour, those facilities were in use so we weren’t able to have a look.

KereKere

If anyone knows me at all they know that I am a sucker for timber box-like buildings with Felipe Assadi and Francisca Pulido’s Fruit Warehouse being one of my favourite buildings of all time. So when Emilio Fuscaldo and Imogen Pullar of Nest Architects invited me to take a look at their project for KereKere I didn’t need a second invitation.

The second year that was

A few weeks ago it was the second year anniversary of idontwearblack, so I thought I would again take a look at what piqued people’s interest over the last twelve months and in particular taking a look at the five most viewed posts and five most used search terms by which people have found this site.