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viewfromkingstreet:

Sigh.

It’s not that I mind different ideas about how to redevelop libraries and art galleries, but why does everything in Newcastle have to become an inexplicably complex battle?

OK. My thoughts.

1. I think that competing plans are confusing…

2. Although the Lord Mayor’s new plan (put library in Post Office) is better than than his old idea of splitting the Gallery between two sites, it remains a plan bedevilled because…

3. The Council does not own the post office.

4. The Post office has already been promised to UoN Alumni

5. The Post office is subject to an outstanding Native Title Claim and

6. It needs serious work amounting to up to $10 million (as reported in the Herald itself).

7. The plan has been “sold” as saving funds and sitting within a $14 million envelope. Does that mean that after the $10 million refurb of the post office the remaing works linking the two buildings and converting the library would cost only $4 million? Sounds odd to me, particularly since it presumes the Post Office would be granted to the City for free…

8. I was surprised to see that the Herald reports “A SINGLE hand-drawn sketch is all Newcastle City Council has to show for its $21million art gallery plans, which were sent back to the drawing board this month after budget bungles and cost blowouts.”. I’ve seen more than a hand drawn plan. I mean…this brochure from the Council seems to include more than a hand drawn plan.

9. Who paid for the new plans from EJE architects? Was Council money used?

10. I was at a Council meeting where the Mayor offered to lead a personal delegation to Sydney to ask for funding from the State, an offer he now seems to laugh at.

11. I think that the last time I saw a sudden change like this, it was a Premier planning a Metro on the back of a napkin…

12. I prefer consensus and “Win Win politics”. Newcastle City Council seems to be heading for a “Lose Lose” situation…

Being such a hipster lol
#hashtag #dontknowwhatimdoing

Hahaha
Spending my days off at the beach and on Darby St just relaxing!

I wish I could do this on my holidays!!
Can’t wait to get to QLD and enjoy my time off!

Get fit feb

Get fit feb!

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That’s amazing

Yes. Oh yes.

(Source: dedmune)

Interiors
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Stairs inside a new office build­ing designed by Bur­ck­hardt & Part­ners
Pho­tog­ra­phy by Thomas Jantsch­er

Wow

Twin Peaks House by Jackson Clements Burrows
Dave, contemporist.com

Jackson Clements Burrows designed the Twin Peaks House in Melbourne, Australia..Project descriptionThis project involved the design of alterations and addition to an existing Edwardian house of some historical significance which is located in an a…

Mmmmmm nice.