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Synopsis
This book is not just about a building; it is about how major architecture gets commissioned, managed and built in Australia today. In this case, we look at the new billion dollar Melbourne Convention Centre. The book follows the whole process – from the three trucks of drawings, documents and models sent to the Premier’s office, which won the initial design competition, through to the newspapers lurching into gear with their familiar rhetoric. Yet, despite the glare of media attention, the process that lies behind big architecture is far from clear. This book explores this process, through a building that not only challenges the conventions of public space, but also what architecture means in the contemporary city.
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- PublisherORO Editions
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 064651377X
- ISBN 13 9780646513775
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages216
- EditorMacKenzie Andrew
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The Private Life Of Public Architecture (Melbourne Convention Centre)
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URO Media, Architecture & Design Publishing, Melbourne 2009, 2015
ISBN 10: 064651377X
ISBN 13: 9780646513775
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Seller: THE CROSS Art + Books, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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27.0 x 21.0cms, 218pp, colour illusts, fine hardback with decorated boards (no dustwrapper as issued) This book shows how Multiplex Plenary Consortium designed, documented and costed the construction operations and management of a $500 million convention centre in 16 weeks. The chapters are: processing the public city; what's at stake; globally specific; thinking; Washington workshop; RFP, voices, planeary group; Brookfield multiplex; PPPS & design quality; making; images. Seller Inventory # 145640
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