Mining billionaire Leonie Baldock has bought a $3 million Sydney pad; philanthropist Judith Neilson has sold her designer Chippendale guest house; and the Hunter Valley’s Brindley Park is available for $15 million.
Mining billionaire Leonie Baldock has bought a $3 million Sydney pad; philanthropist Judith Neilson has sold her designer Chippendale guest house; and the Hunter Valley’s Brindley Park is available for $15 million.
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Sydney’s Candalepas Associates has brought a slice of brutalism to the city’s Punchbowl suburb with an orthogonal new mosque. A welcoming entrance sequence, the street facade also has a series of windows opening the mosque to the streetscape. The first more public of the two courtyards, is accessed directly from the street and abuts the Mosque. AR43 was one of the 5 Finalists shortlisted from 43 entries. Traditional Islamic architecture informs ornamental concrete vaulting in Punchbowl Mosque One wall is decorated with a relief inscribed in the concrete, and is visible through a … Punchbowl mosque has been described as an architectural masterpiece by the director of the Sydney Architecture Festival, Timothy Horton. Located in the suburb of Punchbowl, the religious building provides space for 300 men and women worshippers to congregate. The concrete structure provides a new home for the Australian Islamic Mission, and its various educative and commun
What drives Judith Neilson? Inside an astonishing Sydney art empire
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Elizabeth FarrellyColumnist, author, architecture critic and essayist
February 12, 2021 5.00pm
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The Australian art wars are a lop-sided affair. Against: the federal government; the state government; universities; the Murdoch press; the mining, roads and tobacco industries; the think tank IPA; the Packers and arguably all other developers (until they want to buy respectability) aside from Stanley Quek. And the fors: a host of impoverished creatives, a few underfunded institutions and Judith Neilson.
Sydneysiders are fascinated by anyone with money. Almost everything written about Neilson drools over the numbers: the size of her art collection, her property portfolio, her bank balance. At the same time, we’re told, the art world is currently enchanted not by young men, but by older women. All