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In an age of automation and with the rise of artificial intelligence, this article considers how emergent BIM technologies may help to re-shape and improve our ability to work within heritage contexts. Challenging traditional notions of recording, analysing and interpreting historic buildings, new technologies can reveal hidden secrets and provide new opportunities for understanding the built works which came before us.
Read MoreDespite this being more of a rant, I must confess, I had never thought until I returned to Sydney, that I would ever believe capitalism to be at the root of some great cosmic evil. Though for the mere price of AUD$35 Million, it appears that the deal has been sealed and the fate of Sydney’s last public sandstone assets given away to Singaporeans for ninety-nine years. I will not attempt to presume but if James Barnet did not turn in his grave when the Crystal Boudoir Burlesque show opened at the General Post Office, then he surely will be tossing and turning today, knowing that his jewels of civic pride are now to be privatised.
Read MoreIt is perhaps Freddie Mercury’s vision of flying through the Metropolis of 1927 lamenting our love of ‘the new’ and disregard for ‘the old’, which sets the appropriate melancholic and cynical tone for this piece. The beloved city of Sydney is once again standing over a precipice and facing another architectural crisis, with the impending doom of selling three iconic sandstone structures along the all too historic Bridge Street – The Colonial Chief’s Secretary Building, the Department of Education and Training Building and the iconic Lands Department Building.
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