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Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/australian-cities-failure-to-plan-means-planning-to-fail/ Each weekend, Australians everywhere take up the colours of sporting codes. Soccer. AFL. In the right season, cricket. It’s common to play out the match ahead of time. Who’s performing well. Who had a shocker last week. If we’re lucky enough to be part of the live action you can see small plays around the goal that set up for the mark. Skirmishes off to the side that allow for the break away try. A late shuffle in the slips signalling something out wide. And as our eyeballs scan the field for the strategic moves of game play, we’re all doing something that serves as an analogy for the wider urban field of play. We’re witnessing a set of strategic plays unfold. Canadian Ice Hockey star, Wayne Gretzky was quoted as saying; ‘A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.’ Glory on the sporting field is all about anticipating where that puck/ball/catch is coming next. Imagine if that was how we ran our cities? penberthyd@newsltd.com.au (David Penberthy) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/australian-cities-failure-to-plan-means-planning-to-fail/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/australian-cities-failure-to-plan-means-planning-to-fail/#item6820 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 For the vast majority of people, images of the World Trade Centre in New York, and in particular its destruction, are permanently etched into their psyche.  While we understand a great deal about why the towers collapsed structurally, and the political motivations behind the attack, curiously very little is known about their architect and architecture. So who was the architect of New York’s World Trade Centre, and what did his building represent at the time it was built? http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Symbols-of-dignity-and-humanity-long-before-911/ For the vast majority of people, images of the World Trade Centre in New York, and in particular its destruction, are permanently etched into their psyche.  While we understand a great deal about why the towers collapsed structurally, and the political motivations behind the attack, curiously very little is known about their architect and architecture. So who was the architect of New York’s World Trade Centre, and what did his building represent at the time it was built? penberthyd@newsltd.com.au (David Penberthy) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Symbols-of-dignity-and-humanity-long-before-911/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Symbols-of-dignity-and-humanity-long-before-911/#item6688 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 For the vast majority of people, images of the World Trade Centre in New York, and in particular its destruction, are permanently etched into their psyche.  While we understand a great deal about why the towers collapsed structurally, and the political motivations behind the attack, curiously very little is known about their architect and architecture. So who was the architect of New York’s World Trade Centre, and what did his building represent at the time it was built? http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/canberra-a-bastardised-version-of-the-ideal-city/ Today marks the centenary of the launch of the competition to design the national capital city of Australia. On May 24, 1911, Minister for Home Affairs King O’Malley announced an international competition for the design. In 1899, the Colonial Premiers had decided that the permanent capital would be in New South Wales, not less than 100 miles from Sydney, and a Congress was held in Melbourne four months after Federation in 1901 on the planning of a capital. Dalgety was first chosen as the site of the future capital in 1904, but four years later the Canberra Yass region was selected as a replacement. The site for the Australian Capital Territory was transferred to the Commonwealth of Australia in January 1911. penberthyd@newsltd.com.au (David Penberthy) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/canberra-a-bastardised-version-of-the-ideal-city/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/canberra-a-bastardised-version-of-the-ideal-city/#item5906 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 For the vast majority of people, images of the World Trade Centre in New York, and in particular its destruction, are permanently etched into their psyche.  While we understand a great deal about why the towers collapsed structurally, and the political motivations behind the attack, curiously very little is known about their architect and architecture. So who was the architect of New York’s World Trade Centre, and what did his building represent at the time it was built? http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/a-look-at-our-new-and-possibly-improved-national-gallery/ The National Gallery is one of those buildings people like to beat up on. Since its open in 1967the building has been subject to hurtful and unfair sledges such as “pile of concrete poo” and “High Court off-cuts”. Besides the fact the Colin Madigan building is one of the world’s best examples of brutalist architecture, it is also safely Australia’s coolest public building. In a city dotted with real piles of bureaucratic concrete the NGA is an oasis of unique design. penberthyd@newsltd.com.au (David Penberthy) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/a-look-at-our-new-and-possibly-improved-national-gallery/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/a-look-at-our-new-and-possibly-improved-national-gallery/#item4160 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 For the vast majority of people, images of the World Trade Centre in New York, and in particular its destruction, are permanently etched into their psyche.  While we understand a great deal about why the towers collapsed structurally, and the political motivations behind the attack, curiously very little is known about their architect and architecture. So who was the architect of New York’s World Trade Centre, and what did his building represent at the time it was built? http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Oh-Melbourne-get-over-yourself-darling/ If Melbourne was a person she would have been sent to Trinny and Susannah by now. It wouldn’t be her idea of course - it’s one of those shows she would sneer at - but her loved ones would have given her that little encouraging nudge. She’d go and be full of fake bravado, giving as much lip at Catherine Deveny on Logies night, bragging about her coffee, her restaurants, her laneways and festivals. penberthyd@newsltd.com.au (David Penberthy) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Oh-Melbourne-get-over-yourself-darling/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Oh-Melbourne-get-over-yourself-darling/#item3002 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 For the vast majority of people, images of the World Trade Centre in New York, and in particular its destruction, are permanently etched into their psyche.  While we understand a great deal about why the towers collapsed structurally, and the political motivations behind the attack, curiously very little is known about their architect and architecture. So who was the architect of New York’s World Trade Centre, and what did his building represent at the time it was built? http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/making-our-cities-better-by-design/ Former Prime Minister, Paul Keating, has long been a champion of better architecture and planning. Most recently, he caused a stir by describing our national capital as “a great mistake”. Keating also lamented the bulldozing of much of Melbourne’s heritage in the 1970s, but even had a shot at some of the Victorian buildings that remained. “I used to call it Whorehouse Rococo and Bordello Baroque”, he said. And he teased Australia’s “heritage mafia” for making a crust out of pretending that old buildings are of significance. penberthyd@newsltd.com.au (David Penberthy) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/making-our-cities-better-by-design/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/making-our-cities-better-by-design/#item2170 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 For the vast majority of people, images of the World Trade Centre in New York, and in particular its destruction, are permanently etched into their psyche.  While we understand a great deal about why the towers collapsed structurally, and the political motivations behind the attack, curiously very little is known about their architect and architecture. So who was the architect of New York’s World Trade Centre, and what did his building represent at the time it was built?