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I have to share this site (of architectural “abortions”) with you-all…

Imagine! Canberra could have had one of these in its city centre! The Serpentine Pavilions are available for sale. This is where the Gehry pavilion ended up.  Here’s where it could have been. Be warned. Iconophilia will never give up! See the slide show on designboom, and weep.

For those who live in Canberra the other significance of August 21st will be that it will be THREE YEARS TO THE DAY since the ACT Government and/or the NCA gave up on their responsibility to do something better with the dead heart of Canberra. I admit, this is not a big picture issue. It’s not going to divert us from Our Forward Momentum. But in Tidy Town such things loom large in the Civic Psyche. Three years ago we started making sick jokes about these sad little readymades which occupy the potentially important – but currently dreadful – space between the Sydney and Melbourne Buildings on Northbourne Avenue. Apparently they’re the foundations for some kind of signage that never got finished. They remain as an accidental monument to civic despair. But wait! There’s something new! They’ve updated the bin! And what’s that in the background?

Signage! It’s a sign that (in the most elliptical way) tells us how important this site really is… Welcome to BUILDINGS OF COMPONENT PARTS. Crikey! Who composed that? And for whom?

Dear Chief Minister, when oh when are you going to ask someone to take control and do something FANTASTIC with this symbolic space? Suggestion: emulate the Serpentine Gallery’s annual Pavilion. See here and  here…

There. I’ve broken my RULE never to rely on italics or CAPS for emphasis…

is an intriguing idea… see here for the work of Oscar Tuazon

a feature on pavilions is to be found at Da Zeen.

In Basle. See here at ARCspace.

The best 22 structures of the recent past, according to Vanity Fair.

is by Jean Nouvel. See here on ArtDaily…

Puzzled by the necessity to post warnings against rampant ecclesiastics by the good burghers of Freiburg, I was directed to look again at das Freiburger Munster…

Good grief! What were they thinking? (What were they doing?) But don’t be deterred from risking a visit to see for yourself. It is indeed a miracle the Munster survived… If you missed it, see my previous panoramic view in which I remind you that the Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt once said that the church’s 116-meter tower “will forever remain the most beautiful spire on earth”.

at anonymous works