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Evolving a small modernist project home from 1964 meant balancing its design heritage while adapting it for contemporary family living.
Sydney House, originally a Pettit & Sevitt (P&S) home in the leafy suburbs north of the Harbour Bridge, lacked practical family spaces but sat on a gently sloping sun-soaked site, rich with tall eucalypts, birds and visits from native fauna. Alterations and additions by Sam Marshall, architect of Sydney s Museum of Contemporary Art, pays homage to its modularity, connection to nature, and simple natural materials.
The house is one of the original Pettit & Sevitt Lowline designs by the late acclaimed architect Ken Woolley and it was the Lowline B which won the Royal Australian Institute of Architects design award in 1967 for project homes. A proponent of Sydney School modernist architecture, Woolley s designs drew from Japanese post-and-beam construction and organic design elements among other things.
As COVID-19 upends fundraising for Pennsylvaniaâs already strapped volunteer fire services, more departments are trying to recoup money spent on emergency services by billing insurance providers. Shawn Mederâs ringing phone can attest.
Meder, president and owner of Pa Fire Recovery Service LLC, a Macungie-based company that works with fire departments â including 79 in Northeast Pennsylvania â to bill insurance companies, said that prior to COVID-19, heâd get one or two phone calls in a week from fire officials seeking information on how they can collect.
Now, thatâs a normal day.
âCOVID and the lack of fundraising is definitely the driving force right now,â Meder said.
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A competition to design Melbourneâs new contemporary art museum opens on Friday with a challenge to create âarchitectural magnificenceâ and a building that will be regarded as one of countryâs great landmarks.
NGV Contemporary, the cornerstone of a $1.46 billion state government plan to redevelop the Southbank arts precinct, will be the biggest of its kind in the country with 30,000 sqm of floor space, and will house the NGVâs growing collection of contemporary arts, design and fashion.
Artist impression of NGV Contemporary (gallery building to be designed) viewed from the new public garden.
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The competition will be strictly for locals. Only Australian teams can enter, and at least one team member must be a Victorian business.