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Photography: David Kelly
Thanks to Brisbane News for two things:
My truly wonderful, generous client, Susan, and I had a great morning recently showing writer Lizzie Stafford through the garden as she prepared for the story.
So thanks are also due to both Susan and Lizzie!
You can check out this issue of the mag online here.
Read moreWe've all heard arty 'soundscapes' where someone's recorded their local garbage truck reversing and overlaid it over the screech of train brakes and pigeons cooing.
Design student Akko Goldenbeld wanted to test a different idea about the sounds of his city.
He make a giant pianola roll using a 3D plan of Eindhoven, connected it to a piano keyboard, and then proceeded to 'play' the sound of the city.
Click on the play button above or view the video here.
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Extension to the Sackler Gallery by Zaha Hadid. Image: O Palsson via Flickr under Creative Commons licence.
Pritzker Prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid died overnight, aged 65.
I admit to being no huge fan of her work, but I did admire, and respect, the way she walked a no doubt lonely life as the world's only female 'starchitect'.
One of the things that is so clever about the BBC's Desert Island Discs is how it can use music to really 'get inside' the people we only know from their public persona.
A couple of weeks ago Zaha Hadid was the show's guest, and she spoke very movingly about her life, musical influences, and the power of architecture.
I'll let others write about her architectural legacy, but for me, the music tells its own tale, as art often does.
Listen to the episode here.
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Favourite map finds this month:
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Also Known As: Four Things That Made Me Who I Am.
Also Known As: Oh Right, That Explains A Lot.
As you may know, I sit on the National Council of the Australia Institute of Landscape Architects.
The current National Council first met at the end of last year, and our newly elected President, Daniel Bennett, had a great idea: at each of our face-to-face meetings, a few of us would do a small presentation to the group. We would each have four slides, and a maximum of four minutes. There were no other rules, other than we had to somehow introduce ourselves to the group.
A fortnight ago we met again in Geelong, and my number came up.
I decided not to show any landscape-y photos and not to talk about anything landscape-y that you couldn't already find out from my website.
Click here or on the title above to see what was revealed...
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