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Not a standstill, but definitely impacted. Some trades are still able to work, but once they catch up to where the labourers left off...

It might end up being garish, but I'd be ok with Ikea re-cladding the podium to match the brand. Even if they replaced those limestone...

I'm not denying any of that history, but why is an extant building the only way to appreciate the 1960s context? The mythos of Sid Smith...

183 is a little different. They're a multi-trade union, and huge. It's one thing if the pipe fitters or electricians or whoever walks...

But the building isn't just a passive piece of information on a dusty shelf. It's a building that has thousands of people passing...

I don't think McLennan is in any way inferior to Sid Smith, as a design representative of the time and context. I'd be much more...

I'm not denying that my criticism is reserved for the function of the building. Nor am I suggesting that the sole purpose of a building...

Is this one affected? I assumed this job was ICI?

Ramsay Wright has a great (though small) lecture hall, the hidden gem of an ecological park along the south side, the layout of the...

It's not just the exterior, or the unsympathetic additions, or the changing tastes in design. Sid Smith is programmatically a mess. The...

I find near side lights are often a lot harder to see because we (North America) also tend to put the lights up high. The European...

Wow. Pity we can't just extend the overbuild park further west, and then reinstall a couple bays of the Bush shed as a pavilion up top.

The cat's out of the bag. Once we let Royal York get away with it there's really no grounds to complain about the distances between...

Were the steps on St George a later addition? I remember the building pre-enclosure of the overhangs, and I remember the old lobby, but...

If those were matte colours, yes. But those shades of grey are stainless steel of varying finishes. If they actually clad 84 storeys of...