Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 30-Apr-2009 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 11 Wordcount: 794 How gravity foiled the ABC’s bloodless Anzac website ELIZABETH FARRELLY Anzac Day is one of the great reminders, not just of war and waste but also, for me, of gravity. My Irish grandfather, as family legend has […]
——————————————————————————– Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 23-Apr-2009 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 13 Wordcount: 897 CORRECTION! Colonising guerillas could help feed the city ELIZABETH FARRELLY ‘I’m never going to see again but I’m getting good at being blind,” says Sean Canavan, with a rueful wee smile to camera as he snips […]
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 16-Apr-2009 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 11 Wordcount: 797 Pritzker gives permanence to an ephemeral magic ELIZABETH FARRELLY ‘I like to read literature,” the quiet silver-stubbled man tells his hushed, black-clad audience. “I like to read philosophy. I like intellectual thought, I don’t like the architecture […]
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 09-Apr-2009 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 15 Wordcount: 831 Confine narcissism to those who can pay for it ELIZABETH FARRELLY The critics and claquers who habitually called him America’s greatest living architect no doubt meant it as a compliment. But Frank Lloyd Wright took it differently. […]
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 04-Apr-2009 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: News Review Page: 8 Wordcount: 2472 When the Push came to shove Elizabeth Farrelly Elizabeth Farrelly explores what remains – in memories and legacy – of Sydney’s most famous fringe. It’s a summer evening book launch in the upstairs back room of […]
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 26-Mar-2009 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 17 Wordcount: 891 A massive leap of faith makes a wee bit of sense ELIZABETH FARRELLY Immensity can be depressing. I don’t know, maybe it’s an ego thing and therefore some kind of sin. Like when you accidentally glance […]
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 19-Mar-2009 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 15 Wordcount: 746 Architecture as a cultural art gets lost in translation ELIZABETH FARRELLY I met the legendary architect James Stirling once, although “met” is really too strong a word. More “breathed the same air as,” although on reflection […]
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 12-Mar-2009 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 15 Wordcount: 879 All jokes aside, engineers are practically creative ELIZABETH FARRELLY The avalanche of angst triggered by my last column – mostly from Grossly Offended, Chief Engineer, City of Widgie-Blackstump – just proved my point really. Engraved in square-bottomed […]
——————————————————————————– Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 05-Mar-2009 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 15 Wordcount: 838 A lonely tree cries out for a drink in a city ruled by uncivil engineers ELIZABETH FARRELLY Evidence that engineers are vastly over-represented among the ranks of international terrorists will come as no surprise to architects, […]
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald Pubdate: 26-Feb-2009 Edition: First Section: News and Features Subsection: Opinion Page: 15 Wordcount: 864 Dubai’s darkening sky where the crane gods are eerily still ELIZABETH FARRELLY For longer than I can remember – six months at least – I’ve wanted to write on Dubai as a ruin. Not that I’ve been […]
