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Not simply a kick-ass name, this wonderful renovation by Liddicoat & Goldhill takes a dowdy cluster of 18th century farm buildings and transforms them into an inventive, environmentally conscious home that screams "Please! Come and live with me forever!"
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If your jealousy will bear it, more pictures here.
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In late 2015 Sunshine Coast Council announced a design competition seeking ideas for its planned new public toilets in Isaac Moore Park, just outside Kenilworth.
The competition was intended to flush out an 'iconic facility' that would become a landmark and bring visitors to Kenilworth.
Whilst our scheme was not one of the 12 shortlisted finalists, we really enjoyed the process of interrogating the design brief and proposing a solution we felt would work well for people using the park facilities, whilst also protecting the council's assets.
Click to see our entry on our Projects page.
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Our friends at the Asia Pacific Design Library have launched the 2016 edition of Arch-I-Spy.
Run each year in conjunction with the UQ Architecture Lecture Series, you enter by snapping a pic of your favourite building or detail, posting to Instagram, and tagging with #ArchISpy2016.
Design mags are on offer for each week's winner.
Click to read more about the rules and prizes.
This picture of the James Birrell carpark on Wickham Terrace is our first entry. Follow Landscapology on Instagram to see what else we capture, and good luck!
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Image: Andrew Seles, via Flickr under Creative Commons licence. Image cropped from original.
Iconic is a grossly overused word, but in the case of the Sheats-Goldstein House it's bang on the money.
Designed by John Lautner is 1963 the house is a landmark in the City of Angels. It played the home of a hustler in the (also iconic) Coen Brothers film, and is now set to become a museum, under the auspices of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
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Image: State Library of Queensland
Landscapology is a big fan and long time resident of Spring Hill.
On 25 February, UDAL, the Urban Design Alliance, presents its first event of the year, a forum discussing the opportunities and challenges of development in the historic suburb, particularly in light of Brisbane City Council's planning updates.
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Read moreI reckon you'd consider giving up the desk job to muster cattle, if it meant you got to stay in this award winning, rammed-earthed, green-roofed accommodation building in Western Australia.
Image: Edward Birch
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