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• ‘I may have reacted too far’: architect Roger Walker on his groundbreaking buildings

  28-06-2024 21:00
  
  The New Zealander is known for his use of colour as well as turrets, towers, cylinders, cubes and pyramid shapesRadically inventive Wellington architect Roger Walker remembers being at a party a few years ago and overhearing two people who thought he was out of earshot talking about him. One of them asked the other if he would ever use Walker to design something for him. The reply was a firm, “No, I wouldn’t. You can’t tell Roger what to do.”Walker, an architect who has a
  
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• Sydney firm scoops top NSW architecture prize for rebuild of North Head viewing platforms

  28-06-2024 14:00
  
  Judges praise ‘poetic, generous’ design , while awarding apartment building in Sydney’s inner-west the prize for architecture that benefits the people of NSWGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailA structure arising from the ashes of a hazard reduction burn that went horribly wrong in 2020 has taken out New South Wales’ top architecture honours.The new North Head viewing platforms on Sydney’s heritage-listed headland overlooking Port Jackson were awarded the NSW
  
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• ‘A nearby farmer took the whole herd’: how a couple turned a cowshed into a dream home for artists

  28-06-2024 12:00
  
  A former dairy business now hosts a thriving artistic community – and a spectacular converted barnSuzanne Blank Redstone and her husband, Peter Redstone, have lived on the same Devon farm, nestled in a tree-fringed valley a mile from the sea, for 50 years. The couple’s current home was once their cowshed, a simple, functional structure that they built in 1979 to shelter their herd of Jerseys over winter.Today, it’s an architectural statement, albeit a very livabl
  
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