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Wednesday 19 November 2008
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What if a McMansion was pulled down and rebuilt—using all the materials in different ways— into two or three other houses or apartments? The idea of this fascinating project, 'Reincarnated McMansion', is to find an existing but worn out, big, poorly designed and built house, and an owner who wants a big change in their life. The house will be pulled down and redeveloped, recycling the materials from the McMansion into two or three modern environmentally sound houses or apartments on the same site.
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This week we're taking to the dance floor to investigate a trend that could allow night-clubbers to dance the night away while helping the environment.
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For half a century, the Barbie doll has endured bad press. Her pointy-breasted, teeny-waisted body has even been linked to eating disorders in young women. But Barbie turns 50 next year, and this significant milestone raises the question, how has Barbie remained an international cultural icon for 50 years?
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And now we move to the garden and to a new book just published by ABC Books, Contemporary Australian Garden Design, by John Patrick and Jenny Wade, which looks at 20 of Australia's top garden designers and takes you into their gardens.
Wednesday 12 November 2008
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Bakelite radio sets what were big in this country from the thirties to the fifties - the very sight of one evokes the period - and, though many were brown, many were very colourful and exuberantly designed. There's now a book about them. It's called Radio Days and one of its authors, Peter Sheridan, comes on to the show to tell us about it.
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A new show at the Mornington Peninsula Art Gallery pieces together the important architectural innovation and heritage of the Mornington Pensinsula, just outside Melbourne.
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Trends and Products is the part of the show where each week we look at what's happening in a particular part of the designed world. Since primitive man designed the first spear, people have been fashioning objects from wood. In Australia the state of Tasmania has won a reputation for its high quality of contemporary and innovative woodwork. Some of the finest examples are housed in Tasmania's Design Centre, a beautiful building in Launceston designed by architects David Travalia and Richard Leplastrier
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The National Gallery of Victoria has opened an exhibition, Remaking Fashion, that looks at the shift towards de-constructed fashion -- those clothes that put the seams on the outside, or the underwear as the outer wear. Much of this style of clothing is now very much streetwear, a trend that has been going on longer than you might imagine.
Wednesday 05 November 2008
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Alan Saunders talks with one of Australia's top chefs, Peter Gilmore, from the Quay Restaurant, Sydney. This is part of By Design's series of conversations with key thinkers in the world of design, architecture and food.
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Alan Saunders talks with Professor Joseph Rykwert, author of The Judicious Eye.
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By Design's Trends guest this week is Leah Heiss, who is developing jewellery that has a therapeutic purpose. She has designed pieces that help the diabetic, and pieces that you might need in an out of the way place - practical and discreet way of taking arsenic and bacteria out of water. These pieces form her show Liminal, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne.
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Ernest, Alfred and Otto Wunderlich began importing zinc roofing during the 1880s. Wunderlich has since become a synonym for decorative metalwork, but there was more to this famous Australian company. Through its production of tiles, terracotta and asbestos-cement (fibro), Wunderlich had a profound influence on the style and design of Australian domestic, public and commercial buildings. The talk will detail the story of Wunderlich, its people and products.
Wednesday 29 October 2008
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The website link below will give you the full list of winner's in the national awards handed out this year by the Australian Institute of Architects
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Alan Saunders talks to Philip Goad from the University of Melbourne about portable kitchens and teaching children how to cook.
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And our Trends and Products segment this week looks at a product that is at the front end of a trend revolutionising surgery.
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By Design has been running a series on the houses that are finalists for the Robin Boyd Award - this award is for the best residential house in Australia, given out each year by the Australian Institute of Architects.
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Adrian Franklin joins By Design -- as he does every now and then -- to spin us a yarn and give us some insight into the world of design and collecting.
Wednesday 22 October 2008
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Jean Nouvel is the 2008 Pritzker Prize winner. He talks to Alan Saunders about architecture, Aboriginal art, and reveals a little bit of his life as a modern day global 'star' architect.
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Our Trends guest this week is James Calder from the architects Woods Bagot, who work now pretty much across the globe. Woods Bagot is an interesting firm in that they have been doing a lot of research and thinking about culture, about cities and about how we live our lives.
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Australian architect Jeremy Edmiston lives in New York, and has for nearly two decades. With US architect Douglas Gaultier he created the BURST House, which is on show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. This house was chosen from over 400 world-wide to be one of five houses at the show Home Delivery: Fabricating The Modern Dwelling, curated by Barry Bergdoll, curator of architecture at MOMA.
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Carlo Ratti is a modern cartographer looking at new ways of mapping a city through our behaviour. So the number of times we make a phone call and the way we connect through our computers, for example, is the information of interest here.
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