Eighty percent of Australians live within 80 miles 

of the sea;50 percent of the country’s houses sit

less than 8 miles froma beach.When Sean Godsell

Architects began its latest experimentwith an

ecofriendly, rectangular residential form, the
Glenburn House, it naturally built a first prototype

on the coast. Theprecursor to this scheme, the St.

Andrews Beach House, located on apeninsula south

of Melbourne, is raised up on stilts above the dunes,
oriented at right angles to the sea, and acts as a

telescope to the horizon,where sky and ocean meet.

At Glenburn, a rural area 90 minutes northeast ofMelbourne,
the relationship between the house and the water is reinterpreted. The
box is presented as a ship slicing through swells of earth. Instead of facing
water, here the house’s

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How Gehry, Hadid, Nouvel, and Ando envision their cultural venues on Saadiyat Island.
By ArchNewsNow
February 2, 2007
Architecture and art pundits are already chiming in (see below) with optimistic/pessimistic takes on the recently introduced plans for a multi-billion-dollar, 670-acre (271-hectare) cultural district in Abu Dhabi, capital city of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Frank Gehry: Guggenheim Abu Dhabi

Approaching the design of the museum for Abu Dhabi made it possible to consider options for the design of a building that would not be possible in the United States or in Europe. It was clear from the beginning that this had to be a new invention, and in my discussions with Tom Krens, the director of the Guggenheim, we explored what those inventions might be. We did not have a pre-conceived

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High-Tech Haven
This 1938 English-manor-style home was in poor condition when technology tycoon Scott Jones bought it in the mid-1990s. But he knew the 50-acre property in Carmel, Ind., had potential. So he tripled its size to 27,000-square-feet, outfitted it in turn-of-the-century English country décor and wired it to create the ultimate high-tech haven.

Jones is able to able to control lighting, air conditioning and music with the touch of a button. Fingerprint recognition is used throughout the home to control access to certain rooms such as the wine cellar. Even the wine cellar is a technological marvel. A computer keeps track of which wines Jones likes and dislikes and re-orders his favorites so he's never out of stock. Another unique feature of the home is the 28-foot mahogany

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(top left) House attack, view from the court of the MuseumsQuarter, Vienna.

(top right)House attack, installed on MUMOK's external façade.

For Wurm, [..], anything can become sculpture: actions, written or drawn instructions, or even a thought. His art often treats elementary as well as banal life needs and actions, as well as their perversion, as can be expressed in physical deformations. (source: MUMOK)

Wurm's most recent work is the object "House attack", installed on MUMOK's external façade: the single family house as a symbol of the everyday plunge into the façade of the museum.

The installation is accompanied by the exhibition "Keep a Cool Head", by Erwin Wurm (Opening: 19 October, 2006 - 7.00 p.m.).

Finally, the architecturally boring MuseumsQuartier (by Ortner & Ortner)

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Whether it's Norman Foster, Zaha Hadid, SOM or OMA - successful architectural practices are building in Dubai: What kind of architect's dream these projects fulfill? Certainly, they leave a mark on the planet, at least reminiscence to the global ¥E$.

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