Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 02-Oct-2010 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: News Review Page: 6 Wordcount: 1834 Bring on drama and boldness BARANGAROO Elizabeth Farrelly As a partner to Bennelong and the Opera House, Barangaroo should be brilliant, but it’s way too polite, writes Elizabeth Farrelly. One night in August, as Clover Moore […]
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 07-Oct-2010 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 15 Wordcount: 858 Democracy – seeds of doubt or seeds that will sprout strong? JOIN THE DEBATE ELIZABETH FARRELLY Charming it was, last weekend, to see the Opera House working not as a venue but as a campus. The crowds […]
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 09-Oct-2010 Edition: First Section: Spectrum Subsection: Arts & Entertainment Page: 16 Wordcount: 12 Watch this space Architecture DESIGN ELIZABETH FARRELLY Brutalism meets beauty in the National Gallery’s new wing, writes ELIZABETH FARRELLY. The National Gallery saga is another of those Australian specials where a competition winner is selected, announced and […]
——————————————————————————– Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 14-Oct-2010 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 17 Wordcount: 931 Gender and feminism, a guilt trip ELIZABETH FARRELLY Tell me it’s not throw-up material, this sudden parade of glamorous career women arguing across the front pages about the best way to birth, suckle and rear their […]
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 21-Oct-2010 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 15 Wordcount: 986 Hair today, gone tomorrow – what will they think of next? JOIN THE DEBATE ELIZABETH FARRELLY Not having been raised Catholic – admittedly, this was something my Irish father, himself lapsed early and often, had occasion to […]
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 28-Oct-2010 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 17 Wordcount: 953 Design fails to think outside the square JOIN THE DEBATE ELIZABETH FARRELLY Near where I live is an uber-chic window display of square toilets. The blurb cites the old Bauhaus line “less is more”, but it’s a […]
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 29-Oct-2010 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Page: 9 Wordcount: 576 From the offbeat to serene, the future has been designed ELIZABETH FARRELLY COMMENT ‘Home”, the indefatigable Clare Boothe Luce once quipped, “is where you hang your architect.” And many there have been, over the years, who would agree, […]
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 11-Nov-2010 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 13 Wordcount: 980 Deal with our fear of heights JOIN THE DEBATE ELIZABETH FARRELLY Up or out. We often talk as though cities must do one or the other, but what typically happens is they do both, giving us a […]
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 13-Nov-2010 Edition: First Section: News Review Subsection: Page: 18 Wordcount: 1792 ELIZABETH FARRELLY Road to nowhere The essay ELIZABETH FARRELLY Accuracy matters, as much for charting a dirt track along the dingo fence as for pinpointing a mediaeval English landmark. THE story starts in the red-dirt border-town of Hungerford, population […]
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 18-Nov-2010 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 15 Wordcount: 943 Mayor with might, or it’s gridlock JOIN THE DEBATE ELIZABETH FARRELLY I love postmodernism, or whatever it is we’re in now. Consider the sign that sprouted recently from one of Clover Moore’s new kerbside inner-city planters, proudly […]
