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It’s a jubilee celebration for the then revolutionary strategy for Sydney turning it from a “concrete jungle” to a liveable, vibrant and global city.

How modernist queen Frances Burke kept wartime Australia looking fabulous We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By Janice Breen Burns Normal text size Credit:Argus Collection, The Age Archives Nanette Carter and Robyn Oswald-Jacobs would dearly love the subject of their book Frances Burke – Designer of Modern Textiles NOT to be remembered primarily as a fashion icon. “You’re not … it’s not going to be all about …” Oswald-Jacobs’ pleas are delicate, not to offend this fashion writer assigned to their story; “Not all about … f...

Elizabeth Farrelly14:00, Jun 29 2021 One of history’s most powerful images is a dramatic black-and-white shot of two women in big dresses and tiny pumps chatting in a transparent glass box. It’s night-time. The glass box is held between two sheer white planes high above the Hollywood hills. Its ribbed ceiling, uplit, soars out over limitless space. Out there, gridded with tiny lights and spread to the horizon, is the vast Los Angelean sprawl. That, of course, was before the hubristic smog arrived. These days, the same image shows an horizon of brown smudge. Sterling Davis/Unsplash A lis...

Normal text size Very large text size One of history’s most powerful images is a dramatic black-and-white shot of two women in big dresses and tiny pumps chatting in a transparent glass box. It’s night-time. The glass box is held between two sheer white planes high above the Hollywood hills. Its ribbed ceiling, uplit, soars out over limitless space. Out there, gridded with tiny lights and spread to the horizon, is the vast Los Angelean sprawl. That, of course, was before the hubristic smog arrived. These days, the same image shows an horizon of brown smudge. The house is Pierre Koenig’s...

Architecture news & editorial desk The Robin Boyd Foundation has launched a ‘Plus1’ fundraising initiative with Creative Partnerships Australia to mark the release of the book ‘After The Australian Ugliness’ as well as to support design advocacy in Australia. Every donation made to Robin Boyd Foundation’s ‘Amplify Our Voice’ campaign, which runs 6 May - 6 June 2021, will be matched dollar for dollar by Creative Partnerships Australia, and the funds raised will be used to enable new advocacy projects that amplify the voice of architecture and good design in Australia. ‘After Th...