An Obadiah Slope column. The Saturday Paper might be an unlikely place for good news about a Bible College, some readers of this blog might think. But here’s an insight into Darwin’s Nungalinya College in a review of an Architectural… Continue Reading
Charles Brammall on Frank Gehry (1929-2025 ) My architecture-trained wife’s favourite designer is the late Jewish Canadian architect Frank Gehry (who died on December 5, aged 96). She inspired me to understand, the most beautiful and skilful buildings are not… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope Column Drawing to a close: Can you change the world with paper and pencil? The answer is yes if you consider the work of the visionary architect Léon Krier who died this month. He hardly built a… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column Massively under-reported in the great south land: PresidentTrump signed an executive order on the design of Federal buildings: “I hereby direct the Administrator of the General Services Administration, in consultation with the Assistant to the President… Continue Reading
It’s not even a second-best solution: plans for an aboriginal cultural centre in the enormous “cutaway” under the hollow headland at Barangaroo on Sydney Harbour have been cancelled and the Museum of Sydney (MoS) space in the CBD has been… Continue Reading