Posts Tagged ‘public art’
June 4, 2011
Here are the new painted Laman Street fences. (more…)
Tags:aerial roots, art competition, brand Newcastle, Buenos Aires, Cr Cook, Cr Osborne, fences, gates, general manager, laman street, Laman Street working party, Lillian Fowler reserve, Lord Mayor, Mattheck, NCC, propaganda, public art, Pull Test, racism, Ryde Council, Saving our trees, Working Party
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May 11, 2011
A briefing was given to Council about the Draft Street Tree Masterplan last night. Can’t remember a more boring evening at Council, and that’s saying something – I do not know how Councillors do it week in and week out. (more…)
Tags:arborist, bucket list, iPads, Memorial Grove, New Orleans, plastic, Port Stephens Council, public art, Street Tree Masterplan
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March 18, 2011
TGIF. This week has been full of Stuff like children’s homework and deciding whether to apply for positions on Laman Street working parties (decided not to) and new staff at work and sad Japanese disasters – since I seem to be so inefficient about the time it takes to write blog posts there hasn’t been enough time to write one. (more…)
Tags:Austria, Chernobyl, crepe myrtles, Frank Lloyd Wright, Fukushima, Japan, laman street, NCC, Newcastle City Council, nuclear power, Oregon, Portland, public art, Sydney Morning Herald, Three Mile Island, Working Party
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January 26, 2011

What is it about Wheeler Place that’s so disappointing? (more…)
Tags:charette, Civic Theatre, date palms, Google Earth, Laman Street Civic Park draft framework, Livesites, Louis XIV, NCC, Newcastle, Nicolas Fouquet, public art, The Herald, Vaux-le-Vicomte, Versailles, Wheeler Place
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January 24, 2011

Presumably we have Energy Australia to thank for the latest bit of barbarism in the CBD. Sorry – that makes it sound like barbarism is common; it isn’t. (more…)
Tags:CBD, charette, Civic Park, consultations, council survey, energy australia, King St, laman street, Memorial Grove, Newcastle, Newcastle Voice, public art, slideshow, The Herald
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January 20, 2011
How cool is this bus stop? (more…)
Tags:bus stops, Clarendon Hotel, compliance, Laman Civic Design Framework Survey, laman street, placemaking, public art, smoking policy, State Transit, survey
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