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Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs: César Pelli from 2022-04-09T09:55
Mention the name César Pelli and you can almost predict the sort of building you might see — shiny, sleek, and tall. Usually very tall. For decades, Pelli has been a byword for skyscrapers, and was...
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Why cities are not computers from 2022-04-09T09:35
Cities have been described in many ways. They've been compared to bustling ants' nests and trees, and likened to computers with complex networks of intersecting technologies. But Shannon Mattern, a...
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Annie Smithers'Kitchen Rudimental: Hot cross buns from 2022-04-09T09:20
Chef Annie Smithers and Jonathan head into the kitchen to chat, cook and bake their way through the skills that will help make you a more confident home cook. This week on Kitchen Rudimental, Anni...
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The Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show returns from 2022-04-09T09:06
It's time to turn a new leaf, because the Southern Hemisphere's biggest horticultural spectacular returned for another year… after a two-year pandemic pause. Tim Entwisle, director of the Royal Bot...
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Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs: Japanese manhole covers from 2022-04-02T09:55
While many visitors to Japan might get a crick in their neck gazing up at towering pagodas and Tori gates, there’s one item that is much more down-to-earth but equally unmissable: manhole covers, o...
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Strengthening the voice of urban design from 2022-04-02T09:35
The Urban Design Forum are a group of Australian urban designers who want to put the public back into public space. Their mission? To strengthen a national voice in urban design and show it's more ...
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Fashion, interiors and architecture on film from 2022-04-02T09:20
With another film awards season done and dusted for another year — and while we recover from that slap — design historian Jess Berry is here to walk us through the symbiotic relationship between fi...
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Eric Wareheim's tall order from 2022-04-02T09:06
He's a six-foot-seven lover of "spoofs and goofs, food, wine and cats" whose latest book comes with a glowing testimonial from Jack Black. You may also know comedian Eric Wareheim from the duo, Tim...
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Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs: The Ice Cream Scoop from 2022-03-26T09:45
Just as there's always a debate about whether gelato is superior to ice cream, the means of serving either is open to argument. While there's nothing wrong with using a simple spoon, at least two...
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Fuchsia Dunlop's spicy journey into Sichuan cuisine from 2022-03-26T09:35
If you've ever dabbled in the cuisine of China's Sichuan province, you'll likely be familiar with "the chilli burn". As one of the world's leading experts in the region's cuisine, Fuchsia Dunlop kn...
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Paul Bangay's Garden Rudimental: Water from 2022-03-26T09:20
It's time to dig, mulch and prune with Australia's award-winning landscape designer Paul Bangay. He's here to take you through the basics and give you the skills to become a confident gardener. For...
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Meet the Yarra/Birrarung's riverkeeper from 2022-03-26T09:06
While the term 'riverkeeper' might conjure something out a Grimm brothers' fable, there aren't any trolls or fairies to be found here. Instead, what we've got are a global network of excitable nerd...
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Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs: Coadestone from 2022-03-19T09:55
Eleanor Coade was a woman ahead of her time. Not only did she run an extremely successful business in 18th-century London but she helped develop an outstanding artificial stone known as Coadestone....
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Annie Smithers'Kitchen Rudimental: Preserves from 2022-03-19T09:35
One chef, one cook, one home kitchen… and many ways to make preserves.
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How many cities do you have in your pocket? from 2022-03-19T09:20
We now live in a world where we can walk in one city and scroll in another simultaneously. There are almost 300 million people who consume Kim Kardashian's version of Los Angeles daily. So what is ...
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San Francisco's quest for the perfect bin from 2022-03-19T09:06
How much should a street bin cost... and can a bin do more than simply collect trash? These questions have been rolling around San Francisco ever since 2018, when the city embarked upon a quest to ...
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Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs: Mole Antonelliana from 2022-03-12T09:55
It starts conventionally enough – a solid masonry base facing a narrow street in the centre of the city, classically detailed with columns and porticos, but as it moves upward, it becomes odder, wi...
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How city design affects our feelings of safety from 2022-03-12T09:35
What is it about a dark alley, or an underpass at midnight that triggers a fight or flight mode?
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What does'plant-based'actually mean? from 2022-03-12T09:20
The term is almost ubiquitous in food and shopping culture, but why are we using it?
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Tracing the lineage of Ikea's cheap timber furniture from 2022-03-12T09:06
When journalist Alexander Sammon read about the violence happening on the floors of Romania’s old growth forests, he was compelled to see it for himself. Why were environmentalists and filmmakers b...
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Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs: the Ferris Wheel from 2022-03-05T09:55
The organisers of the Chicago World Columbian Exposition of 1893 wanted something that would capture the world's attention in the way the Eiffel Tower had at the last World Fair of 1889. George W F...
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Annie Smithers'Kitchen Rudimental: tomatoes from 2022-03-05T09:35
One chef, one cook, one home kitchen. In the latest edition of Kitchen Rudimental, Annie and Jonathan count all the ways one can address an abundance of tomatoes, starting with a classic tomato sauce.
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How cities mirror the human body from 2022-03-05T09:20
Arterial roads lead to the heart of a city, parks are a city's lungs; as for it's bowels… let's not go there. But why do we continue to speak of the city in bodily terms? Marco Amati, author of The...
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What can private conservation models offer? from 2022-03-05T09:06
What began as a bunch of friends with a shared cause and $50 in a bank account, has blossomed into the Tasmanian Land Conservancy, an organisation that has facilitated the purchase, conservation an...
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Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs: the Pyrex jug from 2022-02-26T09:55
Who would have thought that railway safety would lead to a measuring jug, an item as common in kitchens as a wooden spoon? But that’s the story of Pyrex.
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Identify, admire and vote for your favourite eucalypt from 2022-02-26T09:35
Stringy bark, coral gum, Silver top ash, lemon-scented gum… with over 900 different species, it's hard to pick a favourite.
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Paul Bangay's Garden Rudimental: Soil from 2022-02-26T09:20
It's time to dig, mulch and prune with Australia's award-winning landscape designer Paul Bangay. He's here to take you through the basics and give you the skills to become a confident gardener.
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Angela Dimayuga on food cultures and Filipinx cuisine from 2022-02-26T09:06
For Angela, food has been the starting point for many different projects examining politics, culture, ephemerality and a culinary kind of theatre. Her most recent project is a debut cookbook titled...
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Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs: Corduroy from 2022-02-19T09:55
With its ridges of soft, tufted cotton woven onto a cheaper base cloth, it combined softness and warmth with strength, making it comfortable to wear and popular with farmers and factory workers ali...
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Annie Smithers'Kitchen Rudimental: Salad Dressing from 2022-02-19T09:35
One chef, one cook, one home kitchen. Infinite possibilities with salad dressing.
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Unearthing women's contribution to gardens and horticulture from 2022-02-19T09:20
Writer and horticultural historian Judith M Taylor has written a book building on the late feminist historian Susan Groag Bell's unfinished work, which explores women's roles as gardeners and found...
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Living With Country: urban planning with Timmah Ball from 2022-02-19T09:06
Living With Country brings together a range of Indigenous Australians to reflect on land management and our built environment. In this edition, hear from Ballardong Noongar writer and former urban ...
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Colin Bisset's iconic designs: the Tolix chair from 2022-02-12T09:55
The Tolix captures a moment of French design, a chair that echoes both the functionality and cleverness of the Citroen 2CV.
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A salon concert in a mud brick house from 2022-02-12T09:35
The house's cathedral ceilings and soaring acoustics are perfect for baroque music concerts, according to harpsichordist Peter Hagen.
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Remembering Thierry Mugler, titan of fashion and spectacle from 2022-02-12T09:20
His work was an exercise in the fantastical, the kind of creative imagination that could team a sense of baroque grandeur with a biker gang aesthetic, or put the the cyborg into Cleopatra. Fashion ...
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Could Australia's suburbs be the key to a liveable future? from 2022-02-12T09:06
The pandemic has changed the utility of our central business districts; working from home means there's no need to commute, let alone have an office. So how might we adapt our cities to allow us to...
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Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs: La Tourette convent from 2022-02-05T09:55
You may not expect beauty in these brutalist marvels but at La Tourette beauty is bountiful in every purposeful step.
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Meet Hinemihi, the Maori meeting house on her long journey home from 2022-02-05T09:35
Over 120 years ago, Hinemihi, one of the Maori's oldest existing meeting houses was taken from her home in Te Wairoa, Aotearoa-New Zealand. After years of negotiation, there has now been a breakthr...
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Annie Smithers'Kitchen Rudimental: Salad from 2022-02-05T09:20
One chef, one cook, one home kitchen, and one big question: What makes a salad, a salad?
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Why Andre Leon Talley will always be'The Only One' from 2022-02-05T09:06
Following his death in January he's been described as many things — trailblazer, genius, iconic force — but there's one label which is perhaps most apt. The Only One, coined by New Yorker critic Hi...
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Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs: the top hat from 2022-01-29T09:55
You'd be hard pressed to come up with a more ridiculous fashion item than the top hat. And yet, as silly fashions go, it's somehow survived for over two centuries.
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Living with Country — fire with Den Barber from 2022-01-29T09:35
Den Barber, a Wiradjuri man, ex-fire-fighter and park ranger, says it's time we reframed our fears about fire. While life in Australia often means watching unsettling bushfires roll out on our scre...
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Paul Bangay's Garden Rudimental from 2022-01-29T09:20
It's time to dig, mulch and prune with Australia's award-winning landscape designer Paul Bangay. He's here to take you through the basics and give you the skills to become a confident gardener.
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How pandemics change architecture from 2022-01-29T09:06
The influenza pandemic of 1918, which killed more than 50 million people around the globe, changed the course of world history — and architecture was not immune. Design and art historian Theodora P...
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Lost and Found — Belfast from 2022-01-22T10:05
Belfast is kaleidoscopic — a product born out of contested histories and the desire to break free from it. As Northern Ireland commemorates 100 years since partition, take a journey through a city ...
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Sense of Place: Kirsty Manning, Cote D'Azur from 2022-01-22T09:35
Author Kirsty Manning transports us to the Cote D'Azur in the 1940s via the music of Noel Coward.
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The stories of Australia's Vietnamese garment outworkers from 2022-01-22T09:20
Slazenger, Country Road, Jag, New Balance, Bonds and Esprit… if you bought clothes from any of these brands in the '90s, chances are they were made in the garages or spare bedrooms of Australian ci...
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The Matrix Feminist Design Co-operative from 2022-01-22T09:06
Out of the groundswell of counterculture and progressive social movements in 1970s London, a group of women came together to form the Matrix Feminist Design Collective to challenge our male-centred...
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Raising an urban farm from 2022-01-15T09:35
At the back of a school, surrounded by suburban streets. three young urban farmers are cultivating a market garden.
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Annie Smithers'Kitchen Rudimental: Brussels sprouts from 2022-01-15T09:20
Could there be a more controversial vegetable? Chef Annie Smithers and Jonathan join forces to convince the good people of Australia to give Brussels sprouts another chance.
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Living with Country – archaeology with Maddison Miller from 2022-01-15T09:06
The notion of 'heritage' in Australia is most often associated with buildings erected in the years following colonisation. But how should we think about heritage when it comes to Country, and sites...
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Iconic Designs: The yoyo from 2022-01-08T09:55
Today, the humble yoyo might seem rather quaint… but the simple invention has had an exceptional history, taking us back as far as ancient times.
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Goodbye to Anzac Hall from 2022-01-08T09:35
By now you may have heard of the Australian War Memorial's staggering 500 million-dollar redevelopment, which involves the demolition of the award-winning Anzac Hall… which is less than 20 years ol...
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Sense of Place: Heather McGinness, Australia's inland floodplains and wetlands from 2022-01-08T09:20
The senior research scientist at the CSIRO tells us about the migration patterns of waterbirds via the music of John Farnham.
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The Australian nightmare: western Sydney's urban heat from 2022-01-08T09:06
The confluence of geography and development, bad planning and accelerating global warming has made western Sydney an increasingly dangerous place to live.
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Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs: The Lazy Susan from 2022-01-01T09:55
Who was she? The namesake of the Lazy Susan remains unknown, though former US President Thomas Jefferson makes a cameo in the search. One thing is clear though, the object's been a staple of dining...
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Kitchen Rudimental: Brussels sprouts from 2022-01-01T09:35
Could there be a more controversial vegetable? Chef Annie Smithers and Jonathan join forces to convince the good people of Australia to give Brussels sprouts another chance.
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Sartorial stories from 2022-01-01T09:20
Emily Spivack joins Blueprint for a chat about the myriad of relationships people have with their clothes, or, in the case of nudists, an absence of them.
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Disruptive domesticity: the spatial dynamics of the sharing economy from 2022-01-01T09:06
Sharing economy platforms are radically disrupting the social and spatial dynamics of cities. What role can architects play in mitigating or subverting the more pernicious effects of urban 'disrupt...
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Lost and Found - South Auckland from 2021-12-25T10:05
Take a trip to South Auckland, a city within a city; it's geographical lines drawn by greater Auckland's collective imaginary (allowing a glimpse of how one might come to understand race relations ...
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Keeping it cool in Melbourne's west from 2021-12-25T09:45
Planting verdant, well-connected urban forests are critical in mitigating the impacts of global warming in our cities. But what happens when these ideas are put into practice in areas where these i...
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How did Frasier afford his apartment? from 2021-12-25T09:35
Despite being off the air for 15 years, the sitcom Frasier has experienced a renaissance, and it's prompted some to wonder about how the fictional radio host paid for an apartment boasting pricey p...
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Designing for disability from 2021-12-25T09:06
Creating truly equitable cities involves a lot more than just making sure things are wheelchair accessible. A newly-completed community hub in Melbourne's south-east has integrated universal design...
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Lost and Found — Christmas from 2021-12-18T10:06
Christmas in the city… well, a city emerging from six lockdowns. Join Jonathan as he takes a stroll through the spine of central Melbourne decked out in full Christmas garb, with a few street Santa...
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Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs: the sleigh from 2021-12-18T09:55
The sleigh has always been a magical thing. However practical they actually were, they are forever imbued with a mythical quality, thanks to Christmas.
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Tim Entwisle on mistletoe's origins from 2021-12-18T09:45
Mistletoe. It's a staple of Christmas iconography the world over, thanks in part to some old Norse mythology. But how much do we know about the actual plant, of which there's about 1,000 varieties?...
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A very rudimental Christmas with Annie Smithers and Paul Bangay from 2021-12-18T09:20
Pop on your gumboots take a trip around the farm of Blueprint's resident chef, Annie Smithers… because we're finding some treats for Santa and his reindeers. Then, we'll hop in the ute and head ove...
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Merry Murri Christmas from the Murrigellas from 2021-12-18T09:06
Glenda, Julie, Angela, Leesa and Paul generously agreed to join Blueprint for their next worldwide exclusive media appearance, and share a new recipe for Blak Christmas
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Lost and Found — Kefalonia from 2021-12-11T10:06
An odyssey of loukamades, fir trees and feasts for a Patron Saint
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Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs: The BEST products stores from 2021-12-11T09:55
It's certainly easy to dismiss the huge showrooms that dot our suburban retail parks as nothing more than sheds but in America in 1972, one company decided to change that.
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Sense of Place: Gail McConnell, East Belfast from 2021-12-11T09:35
Writer, critic and poet Gail McConnell takes us to the place of her childhood in East Belfast. Her latest poetry collection, The Sun Is Open, rifles through a box of artefacts related to the life a...
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Bruce Pascoe and Bill Gammage want to rekindle our friendship with fire from 2021-12-11T09:20
Their new book, Country: Future Fire, Future Farming, examines Indigenous Australian land management and why its implementation is crucial to bringing down the intensity of fires, and the realisati...
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Navigating the hospitality crisis from 2021-12-11T09:06
In the aftermath of long lockdowns — particularly in Australia's east — hospitality businesses are having trouble sourcing and retaining staff. But for journalist Dani Valent, the pandemic isn't en...
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Lost and Found — Lisbon from 2021-12-04T10:06
It's a global tourist mecca, drawing in visitors to its Wes Anderson-like dreamscape of pastel-coloured row houses, quaint lemon yellow trams, and cobblestone streets cascading down to a glittering...
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Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs: the butler sink from 2021-12-04T09:55
Although popular for at least two centuries, it's only relatively recently that they've become truly fashionable.
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The secrets of kosher sourdough from 2021-12-04T09:45
Jonathan meets with baker Maaryasha Werdiger to chat sourdough, the process of making kosher bread and Chanukah preparations.
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Jeff VanderMeer rewilds his backyard from 2021-12-04T09:35
Through a carefully observed process of research, trial and error, Jeff has managed to create a habitat attracting box turtles, racoons, armadillos and native birds.
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Annie Smithers'Kitchen Rudimental: Panforte from 2021-12-04T09:20
One chef, one cook, one home kitchen.
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Annie Smithers' Kitchen Rudimental: Panforte from 2021-12-04T09:20
One chef, one cook, one home kitchen.
The architects who want action on climate change from 2021-12-04T09:06
There are plenty of industries who don't need to wait for transnational agreement to combat climate change... and architecture is among them.
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Lost and Found — Las Vegas from 2021-11-27T10:06
Is Las Vegas The Strip? Or is The Strip, Las Vegas?
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Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs: The Louis Ghost chair from 2021-11-27T09:55
When the Louis Ghost chair was released in 2002, it seemed the perfect symbol of a new millennium. It was jokey but posh and it reinvented the past.
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Living with Country — placenames with Rachael McPhail from 2021-11-27T09:35
During one night online shopping in the thick of the pandemic, Rachael McPhail had a spur of the moment idea to write in the name of her Country in the address field — and it stuck.
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Sense of Place: Matthew Abbott, Australia's Highway 1 from 2021-11-27T09:20
It's the world's longest national highway that loops around the Australian continent over some 14,000 kilometres, traversing bitumen, red dirt, and everything in between. It's a road which award-wi...
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Cliff Kuang wants to know how'friendly'design really is from 2021-11-27T09:05
What price do we pay for this frictionless world of tech? And who gets to define what's intuitive for us?
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Lost and Found — Patrick McGorry's Swansea from 2021-11-20T10:06
Featuring beautiful landscapes, coal, rugby and Beatlemania
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Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs: the Korakuen Garden from 2021-11-20T09:55
Its name is taken from a word that means later, meaning not only that it was built later than the medieval castle that overlooks it but that it was created for pleasure — the pleasure that comes la...
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Annie Smithers' Kitchen Rudimental: meringue from 2021-11-20T09:35
One chef, one cook, one home kitchen, and a whole lot of meringue.
Annie Smithers'Kitchen Rudimental: meringue from 2021-11-20T09:35
One chef, one cook, one home kitchen, and a whole lot of meringue.
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What are architectural design review panels for? from 2021-11-20T09:20
The architecture design review panel is a process of urban planning increasingly championed by Australian governments of all types — and Melbourne's the latest to join the club. These are made up o...
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Inside Melbourne's bid to stop'spreadsheets in the sky' from 2021-11-20T09:06
The Victorian capital has long touted its position as a city of architecture, design, and 'liveability' — and it was consecutively ranked as the world's most liveable city between 2011 to 2017. But...
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Lost and Found — Mexico City from 2021-11-13T10:06
Pop on your walking shoes and head out to discover the wealth of art, architecture, cuisines, and histories that reside in this seductively chaotic city… as well as the razed metropolis beneath it.
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Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs: the monocle from 2021-11-13T09:55
As the New York Times wrote in 1888, they were 'invented by a fool to diminish the visual capacity of an idiot'. They were, it added, 'the sign of a weak head, not a weak eye.'
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A wake of crows from 2021-11-13T09:35
What can delving into the worlds of crows, and examining the worlds they share with us, tell us about existing in this current moment?
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Sense of Place: Jordan Gogos, Kato Assos from 2021-11-13T09:20
The multidisciplinary designer transports us to the small Greek village, Kato Assos, via the sounds of Zorba the Greek.
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Ruby Tandoh wants you to cook as you are from 2021-11-13T09:07
Home cooking is often joyously messy, unglamorous, and improvisational — so how can a cookbook assist with that?
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Lost and Found — Vilnius from 2021-11-06T10:06
A journey to the Lithuanian capital featuring a visit to Vilnius' last remaining synagogue and a day trip to a Soviet theme park.
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Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs: the cruise ship from 2021-11-06T09:55
While some of today's cruise ships are as bulky and graceless as factories, many of the smaller vessels follow a similar blueprint to the ship that started it all, the SS Prinzessin Victoria Luise.
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Introducing Amsterdam's night mayor from 2021-11-06T09:35
Amsterdam was the world's first city to elect a mayor representing everyone's right to the night — a model that has been replicated in other global cities including New York, London and Paris.
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Annie Smithers' Kitchen Rudimental: Frittata from 2021-11-06T09:20
One chef, one cook, one home kitchen.
Annie Smithers'Kitchen Rudimental: Frittata from 2021-11-06T09:20
One chef, one cook, one home kitchen.
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Living with Country — Michael-Shawn Fletcher on wilderness myths from 2021-11-06T09:06
What comes to mind when you think about the word wilderness? For many, it conjures up images of pristine, wild landscapes untouched by humans. But increasingly, the term's being recast, as environm...
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Lost and Found — Cemetery from 2021-10-30T10:05
Contrary to what we see, there is plenty of life to be found in an urban cemetery – especially where trees and plants are concerned.
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Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs: the rubber band from 2021-10-30T09:55
It may be a minor character in the sometimes competitive history of rubber itself but that doesn't lessen its importance.
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How is food made? from 2021-10-30T09:35
Answering this question involves getting up to speed with the sheer scale of industrialised food processing — a major part of our world few of us know little about.
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Artificial intelligence and the'Frankenstein'city from 2021-10-30T09:20
In a world where artificial intelligence is increasingly taking the place of fallible humanity, do we risk making a monster of our own creation?
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Attracting, hosting and keeping bees from 2021-10-30T09:06
Or in your backyard, on your rooftop, or in your front garden – Blueprint consults an expert on all your urban beekeeping needs.
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Lost and Found — Bath from 2021-10-23T10:06
Tuck into a brioche-style Sally Lunn bun, admire Palladian and neoclassical Georgian architecture, and retrace the footsteps of a 25-year-old Jane Austen to the Pump Room.
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Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs: Temple Grandin from 2021-10-23T09:55
The designing mind comes in many forms, seeing solutions to problems in a myriad ways. It's certainly true with Temple Grandin, whose particular sensitivities helped change the design of many slaug...
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Surveying Malaysia and Singapore's'creole classicism' from 2021-10-23T09:35
For too long, Malaysia and Singapore's examples of classical architecture have been derided as poor imitation of their European forebears, but architectural scholar Soon-Tzu Speechley begs to diffe...
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Annie Smithers'Kitchen Rudimental: fruit mince and Christmas pudding from 2021-10-23T09:20
One chef, one cook, one home kitchen... and a few fruit mince pies and puddings.
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Annie Smithers' Kitchen Rudimental: fruit mince and Christmas pudding from 2021-10-23T09:20
One chef, one cook, one home kitchen... and a few fruit mince pies and puddings.
Why do we gender typography? from 2021-10-23T09:06
Letters have no gender, but that hasn't stopped our species ascribing masculine and feminine qualities to them. It's a phenomenon type designer and scholar Marie Boulanger examines in her debut boo...
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Lost and Found - Seoul from 2021-10-16T10:06
A bustling, futuristic metropolis with a strong sense of history.
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Colin Bisset's iconic designs — Albi Cathedral from 2021-10-16T09:55
Being known as one of the largest brick buildings in the world is a pretty banal accolade. But then you look at the cathedral at Albi in the south west of France, the birthplace of the man who almo...
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The psychology of getting dressed from 2021-10-16T09:35
When you try on a piece of clothing and think, 'this isn't me', what's happening psychologically?
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Sense of Place: Allee Richards, Cape Paterson from 2021-10-16T09:20
It's time to head to Victoria's Cape Paterson with novelist Allee Richards. Pack your togs, sunscreen, a few paperbacks, and let the jangly sounds of Melbourne's Dick Diver take you to this sleepy ...
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Living with Country — oceans and'love bombing'with Emma Lee from 2021-10-16T09:06
What's love got to do with it? For Trawlwulwuy woman Emma Lee, 'love bombing' has been central in her mission to get Indigenous Tasmanians back into the state's contemporary history, as well as a s...
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Lost and Found — Western Sydney from 2021-10-09T10:06
Too often obscured by news headlines and stereotypes, it's time to get to know the vast urban expanse that is Western Sydney.
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Colin Bisset's iconic designs: Lawrence Johnston from 2021-10-09T09:55
Johnston created two gardens that are marvels for anyone with the least interest in colour, form, plant biology and garden structure.
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Annie Smithers'Kitchen Rudimental: kitchen fundamentals part two from 2021-10-09T09:35
One chef, one cook, one home kitchen. Chef Annie Smithers and Jonathan continue their discussion of the best kitchen basics to have on hand. Are fancy kitchen gadgets worth it? And what's the diffe...
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Annie Smithers' Kitchen Rudimental: kitchen fundamentals part two from 2021-10-09T09:35
One chef, one cook, one home kitchen. Chef Annie Smithers and Jonathan continue their discussion of the best kitchen basics to have on hand. Are fa...
A walk through the Botanic Gardens in spring from 2021-10-09T09:20
It's picnic season! Tim Entwisle leads Jonathan Green on a tour of the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria in spring.
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What if we all stopped shopping? from 2021-10-09T09:06
Complete societal collapse? Or a chance to start anew? Hear from journalist and author JB Mackinnon whose recently published book considers this very idea.
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Lost and Found — Florida from 2021-10-02T10:06
To the outsider, 'Florida' evokes a certain kind of hot, swampy and technicolour Americana — a particular kind of heat-warped American eccentricity...
Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs: Chintz from 2021-10-02T09:55
'Oh chintzy, chintzy cheeriness,' runs a line in John Betjemen's poem Death in Leamington, published in 1932. It encapsulates a genteel interior wi...
Introducing South Australia's Nature Festival from 2021-10-02T09:35
How many creative ways can we humans interact with nature? Blueprint's Annie Hastwell gives us a glimpse into the festival trying to answer that ve...
What can informal urbanism teach us about the crowd? from 2021-10-02T09:20
The crowd can be both euphoric and menacing at once, and it's a phenomenon that urban scholars identify as a form of informal urbanism: shaping cit...
Finding home with Stephanie Alexander from 2021-10-02T09:06
We've spent an awful lot of time in our homes, and for some this has re-started a romance with home cooking. Chef, restauranteur, food writer, and ...
Lost and Found — Bookshops part two from 2021-09-25T10:06
It's time to go on a journey of the mind around the world via the bookstore. For our second and final edition, let some new and old friends whisk y...
Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs: The Bendix automatic from 2021-09-25T09:55
When the Bendix automatic washing machine was launched in 1937 it changed the way we looked at domestic laundry. It not only simplified a laborious...
It's time to pick your Bird of the Year! from 2021-09-25T09:35
It's the wonderful time of the year… it's time to nominate your pick for Australia's Bird of the Year! Sean Dooley, national public affairs manager...
Kitchen Rudimental: Kitchen fundamentals part one from 2021-09-25T09:20
If you're building a kitchen from scratch, then this Kitchen Rudimental's for you. Let resident Blueprint chef Annie Smithers guide you through the...
Breathing easy amid COVID-19 from 2021-09-25T09:06
What are the design interventions we need to make to help us breathe easy indoors? Lidia Morawska, a distinguished professor and director of the In...
Lost and Found — Bookshops part one from 2021-09-18T10:06
It's time to go on a journey of the mind around the world via the places that are the ultimate conduits for escape — the bookstore. In part one of ...
Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs: Georges Paulin from 2021-09-18T09:55
You can thank Georges Paulin for the hardtop convertible. He was the French dentist who dared to dream of a world where cars could open up to the s...
Inside the moronic moped journey from 2021-09-18T09:35
How far would you travel to pay tribute to a dear friend? For Paul Taylor, it's about 2,900-kilometres. He's embarked on a moped journey through so...
What it takes to be a New York street vendor from 2021-09-18T09:20
New York City's street vendors are as much of a fixture of the city as steam rising from the sidewalk, or a taxi driver with a story to tell. But c...
Living with Country — speculative design with Daniele Hromek from 2021-09-18T09:06
How do we move beyond the legacies of colonial ways of seeing, and inhabiting, the urban grid? This is where speculative design comes in handy, whe...
Colin Bisset's iconic designs: Lina Bo Bardi from 2021-09-11T09:55
Lina Bo Bardi is a perfect example of how place can shape the direction of our work. She was also a rarity: a female architect making headway in th...
What is public space anyway? from 2021-09-11T09:45
The concept of 'public space' is an ever-evolving one.
Sense of Place: Mette Jakobsen, the Karelia woods from 2021-09-11T09:35
Novelist Mette Jakobsen transports us to a dense and lush forest on the border between Finland and Russia. Turn your phone off, take a long walk, s...
The Bangladesh Accord has been renewed from 2021-09-11T09:20
In 2013 the fire at Dhaka's Rana Plaza captured the world's attention and starkly laid bare the conditions faced by garment workers who make our cl...
Healing oceans through 3D-printing from 2021-09-11T09:06
The Reef Design Lab create 3D-printed 'ecological structures', which assist vulnerable marine ecosystems in tropical and temperate waters. Founder ...
Lost and Found — Torres Strait Islands from 2021-09-04T10:06
A mind journey to a landscape of sky and water, bubbling reefs and delicious food shared generously.
Colin Bisset's iconic designs: Giorgio Vasari from 2021-09-04T09:55
Vasari's Lives may not have invented the renaissance but it opened our eyes to the creative life and showed how there is always a story behind ever...
Kitchen Rudimental: fruitcake from 2021-09-04T09:35
Kitchen Rudimental: One chef, one cook, one home kitchen. As we approach Father's Day weekend, and what better way to celebrate than with the Annie...
On the beauty of car design with Ian Callum from 2021-09-04T09:20
Ian Callum is one automotive designer whose designs have had some staying power in an industry that's notorious for chasing new trends. Hear from t...
A walking tour of Melbourne's modern buildings from 2021-09-04T09:06
Melbourne's modernist buildings tell the story of rapid post-war growth which laid the foundation for the city as a cultural centre.
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Lost and Found — The Enchanted City from 2021-08-28T10:06
Come on an urban tramp, in search of enchantment, to discover the industrial city anew.
Colin Bisset's iconic designs: St Clerans, Galway from 2021-08-28T09:55
An elegant, seemingly simple house in Galway that was home to Robert O'Hara Burke, later John Huston and host to some of the 20th century's creativ...
Pru La Motte from 2021-08-28T09:45
Pru La Motte was a weaver, painter and potter, fiercely determined and relentlessly productive; we take a tour of the Wombattery in Adelaide where ...
Kitchen Rudimental: in praise of butter from 2021-08-28T09:35
Annie Smithers talks the pleasures of butter and shows Jonathan a recipe for buttery green beans and almonds.
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Sense of Place: Durkhanai Ayubi, Oxford from 2021-08-28T09:20
The author of Parwana takes us to Oxford via the music of Armenian composer Komitas.
Join the re-knit revolution from 2021-08-28T09:06
Swiss darn, stitch hack, replace cuff, alter section, reknit, cardiganise and take back fashion for the people.
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Lost and Found — Manila from 2021-08-21T10:06
The Philippines is a melange of Austronesian, Spanish, Chinese, and American histories which have their focal point in the capital, Manila. But to ...
Colin Bisset's iconic designs: slippers from 2021-08-21T09:55
Snug and warm, a pair of slippers takes us back to babyhood, when our fat little feet were kept toasty in knitted booties.
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A community-led pollinator corridor from 2021-08-21T09:35
The community-led project aims to link together hundreds of suburban nature strip gardens to create a safe and attractive place for pollinating ins...
Living with Country: Beau de Belle on artefacts from 2021-08-21T09:20
In Australia, more than 350 such items have been returned to Indigenous Australians from overseas institutions since the 1980s, but there's still a...
How design has shaped us from 2021-08-21T09:06
Design is one of those frustratingly elusive terms which seemingly evades concrete, tangible examples; yet it's effects are felt and lived by all o...
Lost and Found — Taipei from 2021-08-14T10:05
Hop on board one of the best transit systems in the world and arrive on time to enjoy hot pot, oyster omelettes and braised pork over rice; before ...
Iconic Designs: Bird baths from 2021-08-14T09:55
If you were to describe the perfect garden then you'd probably include a birdbath. They're part of our horticultural landscape and yet the birdbath...
Kitchen Rudimental: Recipe for a kinder life from 2021-08-14T09:35
Join Blueprint's resident chef Annie Smithers in a chat with Jonathan Green about her memoir, Recipe for a Kinder Life. She reveals an "incredibly ...
Collectivising the Australian pub from 2021-08-14T09:20
What if we all owned a stake in our local pub? It's an idea that was first generated in the Swedish city of Gothenburg in the late-19th century, an...
Gardening in a time of climate change from 2021-08-14T09:06
Climate change is happening faster than we thought, and it's going to have profound effects large and small, including in our backyards and balconi...
Lost and Found – Tokyo from 2021-08-07T10:06
From the outrageous street-styles of Harajuku to Le Corbusier's concrete legacy, we take you on a journey through the thrilling metropolis of Tokyo...
Iconic designs: Melnikov from 2021-08-07T09:55
The house he built for himself and his family in Moscow is famous because it’s just so odd.
Living with Country – Kevin O'Brien on architecture from 2021-08-07T09:35
Award-winning architect Kevin O'Brien joins Blueprint to discuss the myth of the blank page and a new architectural installation at this year’s Ble...
Sense of Place: Katherine May, Whitstable beach from 2021-08-07T09:20
Discover the exhilaration of ocean swimming on a frosty winter’s day via the music of Joni Mitchell
The politics of glass in Beirut from 2021-08-07T09:06
A conversation with Batoul Faour, a Lebanese Canadian architectural researcher and designer whose essay titled Glass Politics: On Broken Windows in...
Lost and Found - Norman Swan's Glasgow from 2021-07-31T10:06
Come on a journey of the mind overseas and through time, as the ABC's Norman Swan transports us to the Glasgow of his childhood.
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Iconic designs: the Olympic Cauldron from 2021-07-31T09:55
In a special edition of iconic designs, Colin is joined by Jonathan for a chat about Olympic cauldron design and the symbolic use of fire.
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Kitchen Rudimental: soup from 2021-07-31T09:20
One chef, one cook, one home kitchen. This week on Kitchen Rudimental, Annie and Jonathan discuss the wonders of a winter soup.
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Exploring the Nicholas Building from 2021-07-31T09:06
Built in 1926, the building has housed business in the rag trade, architects, medical professionals and is now a creative hub for Melbourne's arts ...
Lost and Found — New Zealand Bubble from 2021-07-24T10:06
So you're considering a holiday across the ditch. But where to start?
Colin Bisset’s Iconic Designs: Wunderlich from 2021-07-24T09:55
Ernest, Alfred and Otto Wunderlich transformed the look of the Australian built environment, one terracotta tile at a time.
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A winter wander with Tim Entwisle from 2021-07-24T09:20
Put on your beanie and gloves, exhale some steam and take a COVID-safe winter wander through the Royal Botanic Gardens of Victoria with its directo...
Greenwashing the Olympics from 2021-07-24T09:06
Every four years, the International Olympic Committee compels host countries to expend huge amounts of capital and capital works to produce the gam...
Lost and Found – Urban London from 2021-07-17T10:06
Urban music… it's a London thing. From grime to garage, to drum & bass, the city itself has been instrumental in incubating these rich musical cult...
Iconic designs: marbled paper from 2021-07-17T09:55
In Turkey, the practice is called ebru, from a word meaning water surface. The water itself was thickened into what is called size, using carrageen...
America and the zoot suit from 2021-07-17T09:45
Worn by figures such as Cab Calloway and Malcolm X, the suit rose prominence among Mexican-American youth during the second world war.
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Kitchen Rudimental: Potstickers part two from 2021-07-17T09:20
One chef, one cook, one home kitchen.
Thinking ecologically with Timothy Morton from 2021-07-17T09:06
In the age of the Anthropocene and ecological collapse, what does it mean to be ‘all in this together’?
Showcasing Indigenous fashion at Barunga Festival from 2021-07-10T09:45
Featuring Grace Lillian Lee, Teagan Jan Cowlishaw and Jay Jurrupula
Creating contemporary Indigenous cuisine from 2021-07-10T09:35
Two First Nations chefs discuss the role of ecology, history, relationships and consultation as part of a new gastronomic undertaking at this year’...
Propagating and collecting Indigenous plants and seeds from 2021-07-10T09:20
Jonathan meets Naomie Sunner, propagation and volunteer co-ordinator at the Victorian Indigenous Nurseries Co-op (VINC), to learn more about native...
Living with Country – archaeology from 2021-07-10T09:06
The notion of ‘heritage’ in Australia is most often associated with buildings erected in the years following colonisation. But how should we think ...
The Green School, Bali from 2021-07-03T09:55
It's no surprise that the Green School in Bali is something of a pin-up for bamboo architecture given the way it sits so beautifully in its surroun...
Fight for your right… to repair! from 2021-07-03T09:45
Have you ever tried to fix a broken phone screen, only to be told that it's cheaper to replace the whole thing? Well, one intellectual property law...
Restoring Tasmania's Linda Hotel from 2021-07-03T09:35
It's a renovator's dream! Or perhaps a nightmare? Of the eight people who live in the town of Linda, Tasmania, one woman has been brave enough to a...
Sense of Place: Guy Williams from 2021-07-03T09:20
The host of popular Kiwi comedy show New Zealand Today transports us to the allegedly haunted town of Marton, population 180, via the sounds of Nes...
Lost and Found — Mount Bogong from 2021-06-26T10:06
Victoria's tallest summit is Mount Bogong, a place of dazzling beauty nestled in the Great Dividing Range on Yaithmathang country. Jonathan Green t...
Iconic Designs: The Lazy Susan from 2021-06-26T09:55
Who was she? The namesake of the Lazy Susan remains unknown, though former US President Thomas Jefferson makes a cameo in the search. One thing is ...
Designers Kym Ellery and Duran Lantink create a sustainable wardrobe from 2021-06-26T09:45
Re-engineering clothes, whether it's your own wardrobe or an entire warehouse, requires careful thought, planning and expertise. Abi McNeil heads t...
Kitchen Rudimental: Potstickers, part one from 2021-06-26T09:20
One chef, one cook, one home kitchen: It's Kitchen Rudimental. This time, we're looking at dumplings.
Lost and Found — Byron Bay from 2021-06-19T10:06
Beautiful beaches, ideal surfing conditions, national parks and plenty of sunshine; it's not hard to see why Byron Bay attracts everyone from holid...
Iconic designs: the bobby pin from 2021-06-19T09:55
The bobby pin seems to sum up femininity, even when used by men, from Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot, who kept his hair in place at night using t...
This is your brain on food from 2021-06-19T09:45
Do we all experience taste in the same way? The relatively new discipline of neurogastronomy — the study of food and the brain — suggests otherwise...
Why is mending trending? from 2021-06-19T09:35
When was the last time you mended a piece of clothing rather than buying a replacement? The modern mending movement is here to show how to slow dow...
Eucalypts in a time of climate change from 2021-06-19T09:20
Victoria's recent devastating storms have shown us the risks climate change poses to Australia's Eucalypts. But the resilient species has survived ...
Lost and Found — Silicon Valley from 2021-06-12T10:06
A mind journey to the sprawling Californian centre of wealth, techno utopianism, self-optimisation and exemplar of the contradictions and excesses ...
Iconic Designs: Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park from 2021-06-12T09:55
Grief, loss, life and beauty all encapsulated in a single gingko tree by a riverside.
Kitchen Rudimental: pancakes from 2021-06-12T09:20
Annie Smithers talks clarified butter and showed Jonathan how to make the perfect pancake.
Lesley Lokko on architecture, identity and race from 2021-06-12T09:06
Scottish-Ghanaian architect, Lesley Lokko reflects on her affinity for architecture, the future of architectural education and the enduring questio...
Lost and Found — Milan from 2021-06-05T10:06
Behind the cosmopolitan, dynamic, and fashion-filled city of Milan lies a long and rich history. Down your aperitivo, hop on the underground train ...
Does the fashion week need a redesign? from 2021-06-05T09:45
With Australian Fashion Week just having just passed, it feels as though the local fashion industry's snapped right back after a 2020 pause. But af...
Sense of Place: Rohan Storey from 2021-06-05T09:35
What does it mean to think about place... on Instagram? Planning and heritage guru Rohan Storey has done just that, informing thousands of follower...
Have You Eaten? A crowd-sourced Sydney foodie guide from 2021-06-05T09:20
Have you ever been in a new city desperate to find new restaurants and cuisines that aren't usually captured on city guides? If you're in Sydney, H...
Two garden walks under lockdown from 2021-06-05T09:06
Bound by their respective five-kilometre lockdown radiuses in Melbourne, Jonathan goes on a garden stroll… well, over the phone… with Tim Entwisle,...
Lost and Found - Richard Leplastrier's House from 2021-05-29T10:06
Gamilaraay man and ABC Top 5 Arts residential scholar Beau de Belle brings us along on a visit to the house of his mentor and friend, the revered a...
Iconic Designs: The Adirondack chair from 2021-05-29T09:55
The laid-back comfort of the great outdoors is perfectly encapsulated in the Adirondack chair — a design classic that first appeared at the turn of...
Inside the bid to put Australia's pre-fabricated buildings on the World Heritage List from 2021-05-29T09:35
While the idea of the flat-pack may conjure up ideas of Swedish minimalism and perfectly-timed supply chains, a lesser-known forebear emerged in th...
Kitchen Rudimental: The Brussels sprout returns from 2021-05-29T09:20
It's time for the second act of the "devil's grapes"… or the Brussels sprout.
Animal, Vegetable, Junk: a conversation with Mark Bittman from 2021-05-29T09:06
While agriculture supports the lives of billions, the West's contemporary relationship to food is dependent on 'just in time' supply chains and hea...
Lost and Found – Xinjiang from 2021-05-22T10:06
Arid dessert air, plunging temperatures at night, bright white light and framed by multiple mountain ranges: Xinjiang is the kind of place that ins...
Iconic Designs: The dishwasher from 2021-05-22T09:55
Penury is often the mother of invention. Just look at the inventor of the dishwasher, Josephine Cochrane.
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Sense of Place: Scott Ludlam from 2021-05-22T09:45
Join author and former Australian Greens senator Scott Ludlam, on a traipse through the wetlands and sleepy suburban streets of South Perth.
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The 'benevolent' asylum? from 2021-05-22T09:35
Care homes and social services come in for a lot of criticism, but imagine a time when there was nothing. The Melbourne Benevolent Asylum changed a...
Instagram and on-demand flowers from 2021-05-22T09:20
The billion-dollar flower industry is part and parcel of our world's appetite for 'on-demand' products — a process far removed from the seasonal fl...
Lost and Found - Costa Rica from 2021-05-15T10:07
A country rich in biodiversity, a festival for every saint and 16 different types of avocado: come on a journey to Costa Rica.
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Sense of Place: Maria Tumarkin from 2021-05-15T09:35
Ukranian-Australian writer Maria Tumarkin takes us to the St Petersburg of her youth, a time just before the Soviet regime's collapse.
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Kitchen Rudimental: Brussel sprouts from 2021-05-15T09:20
Could there be a more controversial vegetable? Chef Annie Smithers and Jonathan join forces to convince the good people of Australia to give Brusse...
Finding the ethical flower from 2021-05-15T09:06
Much has been made about the importance of ethically and sustainably consuming food and textiles, but what about flowers?
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Lost and Found – Botanic Gardens from 2021-05-08T10:06
From New Zealand to China, to the Kew Gardens in the UK, Jonathan goes on a journey-of-the-mind to the world's botanic gardens via a walk with Tim ...
Iconic Designs: All Saints Church, Brockhampton from 2021-05-08T09:55
It's a church that appears like a medieval one at first glance, but on closer inspection it's one from 1902. Enter, William Lethaby's All Saints Ch...
Urbanism in the digital age from 2021-05-08T09:35
How might digital technologies shape our cities if the usual tech giants weren't at the helm?
Lost and Found — Berlin from 2021-05-01T10:06
Come on a mind journey through the 'unloved capital' to discover Berlin's rough charm, it's currywurst, its art and the unavoidable weight of it's ...
Iconic Designs: Father Marie-Alain Couturier from 2021-05-01T09:55
The Dominican priest who coaxed the greatest names in Western art into producing some of their finest work.
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Sense of Place: Nevo Zisin, Melbourne from 2021-05-01T09:35
Nevo Zisin talks about their abiding love of the city and why it feels like a place of great possibility and cultural richness.
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Kitchen Rudimental: raspberry jam from 2021-05-01T09:20
Annie Smithers and Jonathan Green pick berries, take in a duck pond, rank jams and warn of the dangers of spitting quinces. Plus, a recipe for rasp...
Climate change and cities from 2021-05-01T09:06
In part two of our conversation about the impacts of global warming on urban spaces, we explore how different geographies and climates inflect the ...
Lost and Found - Queer Melbourne from 2021-04-24T10:06
Turn a 'queer eye' to Victoria's capital city on a walking tour with historian Graham Willett.
Iconic Designs: Glass House from 2021-04-24T09:55
Glass is the material of fantasies. It's the nearest one can get to building with nothing but air.
The life, love, death and art of Neanderthals from 2021-04-24T09:35
It turns out they were super smart, resourceful and more than a match for homo sapiens.
Sense of Place: Karla Grant, Central Desert Region from 2021-04-24T09:20
Host of NITV's Living Black Karla Grant takes us to the Country of her grandma’s family, the Central Desert Region of the Northern Territory, via t...
Big Weather: a meditation on climate change and Country from 2021-04-24T09:06
A new exhibition reflects the sophisticated appreciation of weather systems existing within Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge.
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Lost and Found — Greek Islands (Paros and Hydra) from 2021-04-17T10:06
From the whitewashed houses and idyllic waters of Lefkes, we travel in space and time to the heady bohemian days of Hydra in the 50s and 60s.
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Iconic Designs: Velvet from 2021-04-17T09:55
The smoothest, richest fabric, imbued with the soul of craftsmanship that transforms everything it touches into a work of limitless sensuality.
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Kitchen Rudimental: an autumn kitchen garden from 2021-04-17T09:35
Annie talks about why it was a bleak summer for tomatoes, waxes lyrical about the beauty of cabbage and laughs lovingly at some alien kohlrabi.
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World travel, in the footsteps of Anthony Bourdain from 2021-04-17T09:06
Laurie Woolever reflects on the life and legacy of Anthony Bourdain and takes us on a journey through the eyes of the late chef, from the cosmopoli...
Lost and Found - Brasília from 2021-04-10T10:06
How might you go about building a capital city from scratch?
A Food Lover's Guide to Slow Cooker Glory from 2021-04-10T09:35
Katrina Meynink on the pleasures of the slow cooker and why slow cooked food is always worth the wait.
A garden in autumn from 2021-04-10T09:20
Amidst a landscape transformed by a sea of red and yellow fallen leaves, Tim Entwisle and Jonathan Green take a tour of the Royal Botanic Gardens.<...
Designing the 'new normal' from 2021-04-10T09:06
Ross Harding, Jefa Greenaway and Clare Cousins talk architectural visions for the future and what architects can do in a moment of profound crisis....
Lost and Found — Jerusalem from 2021-04-03T10:06
A journey to an ancient city marked by both beauty and ugliness, where intractable allegiances, passions and pasts collide.
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Iconic Designs: the retractable tape measure from 2021-04-03T09:55
Has there ever been a better way of measuring a piece of string?
A very foodie season from 2021-04-03T09:35
Annie Smithers on food traditions, ritual, and the changing customs of this most food-centric of seasons.
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Inside the bleak 21st century apartment interior from 2021-04-03T09:06
A journey into the speculative interior of a seemingly generic, inner-urban, mass-produced apartment takes a dark, uncanny turn.
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Iconic Designs: Jože Ple?nik from 2021-03-27T10:55
An individual voice with a singular architectural vision to give pleasure and dignity, embodied in the city of Ljubljana.
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Buttergate from 2021-03-27T09:20
The story behind the mysteriously unsoften-able Canadaian butter.
Mary Quant – Fashion revolutionary from 2021-03-27T09:06
A look back at the kaleidoscopic colours, raised hemlines and emancipatory fabrics that characterised Mary Quant’s extraordinary fashion.
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Lost and Found - Melbourne Cricket Ground from 2021-03-20T10:06
In anticipation of Australian football's return, journey to the MCG, a centuries old meeting place with many stories to tell.
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Sonica botanica: listening to plants from 2021-03-20T09:35
Sound artist Patrick Cronin has created an immersive botanical listening experience.
Lost and Found — Bergen from 2021-03-13T10:06
A city of beauty, inwardness, and relentless, driving rain from which emerged Neo-Fjoridc cuisine, Karl Ove Knausgård and with him a great literary...
Iconic Designs: De Havilland Comet from 2021-03-13T09:55
In the 1940s, a prototype of the world's first and most beautiful jet airliner took to the skies; it would forever change the way we travel.
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Japanese fermentation and the magic of 'koji' from 2021-03-13T09:35
Meet Yoko Nakazawa, the woman making miso, mirin and soy sauce from scratch in suburban Melbourne.
Kitchen Rudimental: how to make schnitzel from 2021-03-13T09:20
In part three of Annie Smithers' celebration of butter, she shows us how to make a schnitzel.
Owning the Street from 2021-03-13T09:06
What has the pandemic-led reclamation of public space revealed about ideas of ownership, belonging and rights to the modern city?
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Lost and Found - Toronto from 2021-03-06T10:06
Take a tour of Canada's largest and most multicultural city via it's underground walkways, it's myriad of restaurants and a Toronto Raptors home ga...
Iconic Designs: Case Study Houses from 2021-03-06T09:55
Open, timeless and original: Los Angeles' twenty-two houses that were influential around the world.
Mt Buffalo Chalet from 2021-03-06T09:35
When it opened in 1910, the Mount Buffalo Chalet was the epitome of elegance and elevated sophistication. Fiona Gruber takes a tour of the faded st...
Sense of Place: Meg Bignell, Bream Creek, Tasmania from 2021-03-06T09:20
Tasmanian dairy farmer and debut author Meg Bignell on finding her place, the Bream Creek show and the problem of being a proud country woman and a...
Iconic Designs: St Clerans from 2021-02-27T09:55
An elegant, seemingly simple house in Galway that was home to Robert O'Hara Burke, later John Huston and host to some of the 20th century's creativ...
Pru La Motte retrospective from 2021-02-27T09:45
Pru La Motte was a weaver, painter and potter, fiercely determined and relentlessly productive; we take a tour of the Wombattery in Adelaide where ...
Reknit revolution from 2021-02-27T09:06
Swiss darn, stitch hack, replace cuff, alter section, reknit, cardiganise and take back fashion for the people.
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Cool cities from 2021-02-20T09:35
A proposed walkable urban landscape shows how architecture and landscape design can improve urban climate and make our cities sustainable into the ...
Eating with my mouth open from 2021-02-20T09:20
Sam van Zweden on food writing, food memories, the problem with wellness culture and the pleasures of eating.
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Understanding a global fire crisis from 2021-02-20T09:06
How land use change might help us make sense of recent global fire crises from California to Siberia, Brazil to Australia.
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Lost and Found — Rome (in poetry) from 2021-02-13T10:06
A journey through the ancient Italian capital - from the Spanish Steps to the Villa Sciarra - through the eyes of the poets.
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Iconic designs: The Jet d'Eau from 2021-02-13T09:55
So simple it's almost laughable – a single jet of water shooting upwards out of a lake, as though a giant whale has got stuck on pause.
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A return to the garden with Costa from 2021-02-13T09:45
Gardening Australia's Costa Georgiadis takes the nation's botanical temperature, after a year of weather extremes.
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Kitchen Rudimental: how to make a butter cake from 2021-02-13T09:35
Annie Smithers makes a basic butter cake, talks appliance design and explains the science of creaming butter and sugar.
Citizen scientists recording climate change from 2021-02-13T09:20
Tim Entwisle takes a walk to discover how the new ClimateWatch app is enabling citizen scientists to contribute to improving our understanding of h...
Hole-y heck: the great bucatini shortage of 2020 from 2021-02-13T09:06
In pursuit of the truth about disappearing bucatini, one brave investigative journalist went deep into the shadowy world of Big Pasta and unravelle...
Lost and Found — Copenhagen (part two) from 2021-02-06T10:06
Our Danish journey takes a dark turn with a focus on dismemberment, watery death, rogue detectives and a trip across the Øresund Bridge.
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Sense of Place: Tim Ross, North Melbourne sharehouses from 2021-02-06T09:35
Tim Ross on memories of 90s sharehouse life in Melbourne’s north and the relationship between architecture and memory.
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Dressing up the death drive: fashion and psychoanalysis from 2021-02-06T09:20
Psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster on the relationship between fashion and death and what it means to dress up in a time of pandemic.
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Killing Sydney: The Fight for a City's Soul from 2021-02-06T09:06
When Elizabeth Farrelly first arrived in Sydney, it was love at first sight; but since, untrammelled development, privatisation of public land and ...
Architecture of the swimming pool from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
"There are no epaulettes in the banya", according to an old Russian saying, but is the pool the truly egalitarian space we like to imagine? ...
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Kitchen Rudimental: how to chop onions from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
One chef, one cook, one home kitchen: this week, slicing and dicing onions.
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Urban inequality in "world class" cities from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Housing exclusion, evictions and nuisance ordinances: how the criminalisation of vulnerability is transforming our cities. ...
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Fashion in Jane Austen's time from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
What Regency fashion can tell us about Jane Austen's world.
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Lost and Found — Galway from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Ornate doors, relentless rain and a rich literary heritage, we take a mind journey to the beautiful city of Galway.
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Iconic Designs: the handkerchief from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Snot-rag, status symbol or style icon? The knotted history of the handkerchief.
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Plant societies from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In an age of atomisation, plague and climate crisis, plant societies offer plant enthusiasts a collective respite and help conserve some of Australia's rar...
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People's Power: Reclaiming the Energy Commons from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Can public control over energy commons offer a solution to the climate crisis gripping our cities?
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The futurist cookbook from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
A dive into the weird pasta-free, velvet-coated, fennel heart-filled world of futurist cooking.
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The Conran Effect from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
A tribute to the late iconic British designer who shaped the world of British design, bringing terracotta chicken bricks and scrubbed pine into otherwise d...
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Sense of Place: David Pocock, Murrumbidgee River from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Rugby player David Pocock takes us to a quiet spot along the Murrumbidgee River where he finds peace, quiet and natural beauty in an otherwise frenetic wor...
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Kitchen Rudimental: cooking sous vide from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
One chef, one cook, one home kitchen. This week, more ways with water and gentle heat.
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Politics and fashion from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
From Trump's ties to Hillary's pantsuits, attention has increasingly turned to politicians clothes, in the search for meaning. ...
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Lost and Found - Tour de France from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Eat, cycle, repeat as Sporty's Amanda Smith joins Jonathan Green on a journey of the mind to a European summer.
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Iconic Designs: the world's first municipal park from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
A feature of urban life that today we take for granted but that once upon a time marked a democratic shift, allowing everyone access to fresh air, open spa...
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Springtime in lockdown from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
A wander through a Melbourne park in springtime, in lockdown, in anticipation.
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Fashion after COVID-19 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Working from home has changed our relationship with what we wear. So how will we emerge, sartorially, from this moment?
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Momofuku's David Chang on food, fame, identity and ugly deliciousness from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
From noodle bars, to Michelin stars, David Chang has become one of the most influential chefs of a generation; he reflects on the problems of fame, class, ...
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Lost and Found — Prague from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Richard Fidler takes us on a tour of Prague and reveals the unsettling beauty in the city's hundred spires and cobbled streets, baroque domes and Gothic st...
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The Harry Styles Cardigan from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
How Harry Styles, modern day pop star and Gen Z sex symbol inspired a viral DIY cardigan craze.
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Kitchen Rudimental: Steaming from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
One chef, one cook, one home kitchen; this week, the third principle of cookery - steaming
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Greenery: journeys in springtime from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
A journey through spring with its migratory birds, from swallows in midsummer South Africa, to storks venturing the Straits of Gibraltar. ...
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Uyghur Forced Labour is making our clothes from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
China's Uyghur people are now being used as an involuntary labour force to make some of the world's best known products, from Nike sneakers to PPE masks fo...
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Lost and Found - Oahu from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Learn the true meaning of Aloha, deepen your appreciation of the ukulele and take a detour to some of Oahu's most significant cultural places. ...
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Iconic designs: Vico Magistretti from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The Carimate chair became a staple for smart Italian restaurants around the world, who wanted to evoke Italian tradition and Italian flair all at the same ...
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First Dog on the Moon's Guide to Country Living from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
First Dog on the Moon is Walkley award-winning cartoonist and a reformed inner city dweller. He now lives among the pademelons and wallabies on a very stee...
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Cooking from the iconic Soviet cookbook, The Book of Tasty and Healthy Food from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In the Soviet Union there was one official cookbook for everyone, The Book of Tasty and Healthy Food. Today a young Muscovite, together with her grandmothe...
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Does Melania's Rose Garden signal the end of American democracy? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
What does Melania's severe geometrical redesign of the White House Rose Garden suggest about the direction of American politics? ...
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New York City is sinking; is there a plan? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
As New York City, the self-proclaimed "real estate capital of the world" sinks into the sea, we ask, is there a plan to save it? ...
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Lost and Found — Helsinki from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Quiet darkness, modernist delights and all the herring - a mind journey into the cosmopolitan Finnish capital.
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Iconic Designs: Ballet Mécanique from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
An irreverent Zurich apartment building that transforms the idea of home into a work of kinetic art.
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Kitchen Rudimental: Poaching from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
One chef, one cook, one home kitchen. This week, the second principle of cookery: poaching.
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Crispy duck and pink peppercorn gin… in a potato chip? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
How chip flavours evolved from humble salt and vinegar to black truffle oil and wagyu beef and wasabi. And why.
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The politics of face masks from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
While COVID-19 has radically transformed every aspect of contemporary life, it is the face mask that has perhaps become its starkest symbol. So why has the...
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Lost and Found - Broken Hill, Wilyakali Country from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Hop on a pink bus named Priscilla, turn up the music and look out the window at beautiful Wilyakali country in this week's journey to Broken Hill. ...
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Iconic Designs: the Mouseman of Kilburn from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
To some, an oak table with a mouse running up one of its legs represents the worst of English kitsch; to others, it's a charming reminder of a simpler time...
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Martin Margiela: In His Own Words from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Filmmaker, Reiner Holzemer, discusses his intimate portrait of the enigmatic, media-shy Belgian designer, Martin Margiela. ...
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Big Mob Nachos with Murrigellas from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Inspired by Nigella Lawson, @murrigellas is a place to exchange recipes, share cooking triumphs and give support to each other's cooking adventures. ...
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Supply chains interrupted from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The outbreak of panic buying earlier this year revealed as much about the nature of global supply chains as it did about our own collective sense of their ...
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Lost and Found - Cranbourne Gardens from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Just days before Melbourne went into Stage Four lockdown, Jonathan drove to meet Tim Entwisle for a walk through Cranbourne Gardens ...
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Iconic designs: engineered timber from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Australia has always loved timber architecture, from its Queenslanders to the new vernacular of architects like Glenn Murcutt and Richard Leplastrier. ...
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Kitchen Rudimental: Boiling from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
One chef, one cook, one home kitchen; this week the second principle of cookery: boiling.
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Lost and Found — Buenos Aires from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Come on a journey of the mind to the Argentine capital and revel in its faded elegance, frenetic pace, moodiness, its colour, and its seductive intensity. ...
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First Dog On the Moon's Guide to Country Life from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
First Dog on the Moon is Walkley award-winning cartoonist and a reformed inner city dweller. He now lives among the pademelons and wallabies on a very stee...
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In defence of durians from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
You could be missing out on a transcendent culinary experience.
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A repressed history of the analytic couch from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
How the psychoanalytic couch became an icon of interiority and self-reflection as well as a site for pleasure, privacy, transgression, and healing. ...
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The dehumanisation of cyclists in a car-dominated world from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Like it or not, cyclists will become a more prominent feature of city life in the wake of COVID-19. So what social and psychological shifts are required to...
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Lost and Found — Mannahatta from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This week, a journey in space and time to the place the Lenape called, Mannahatta, a lush forest and complex ecosystem onto which the modern metropolis of ...
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Kitchen Rudimental: the principles of cookery from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
One chef, one cook, one home kitchen; this week an introduction to the basic principles of cookery.
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Coronavirus and the veggie box from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Has the pandemic nudged you closer to eating seasonally?
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Monuments: the problems of history and memory in public space from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Award-winning artist, Jane Cavanough, on designing memorials and what to do with today's contested monuments.
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Sambal: the fiery heart of the Indonesian table from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Chef Lara Lee on the importance of sambal in Indonesian cuisine, as comfort in times of isolation and as a vehicle for memories of a home she'd never seen....
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Iconic Designs: Brand logo from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
From cattle to humans: the story of how we came to brand ourselves.
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When fashion 'transparency' remains opaque from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Have 'transparency’ and ‘sustainability’ become empty gestures, reinforcing the status quo?
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Why does fast food smell like ...fast food? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Wherever you go in the world, the smell of McDonalds and Subway is instantly recognisable; and detectable from miles away. So how is it produced, why is it...
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Lost and Found — Hanoi from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Inhale incense, dodge scooters, and devour a bowl of Pho in the Vietnamese capital where Buddhism, Catholicism, Confucianism, communism, remnants of French...
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Bill Henson's Garden from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Acclaimed photographer Bill Henson gives us a tour of his surprising garden.
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Sense of Place: Tony Tan's Hong Kong from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Chef Tony Tan takes us through the breathtakingly rich and varied food scene of Hong Kong.
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Italy's pasta-making nonnas from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Food writer Vicky Bennison has been filming Italian matriarchs in their kitchens for five years, as part of what she calls a 'Noah's Ark' of hand pasta-mak...
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The urban politics of COVID-19 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The urban dynamics of COVID-19 tell us as much about how we got here as they do about how we might get out.
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Indigenous plant gardening from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Tim Entwisle gets a tour of an unusual garden featuring only indigenous plants and animals.
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The Black Chef Movement from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The Black Chef Movement, based in Brooklyn, New York, have been leading a team of chefs to prepare and distribute food to those on the front lines of the B...
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Lost and Found — Annie's Farm from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Annie Smithers is a chef; she lives on a small farm in Lyonville, Victoria. This week she takes us on a tour of her kitchen garden and orchard that are pro...
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Iconic Designs: Robert Mallet-Stevens from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
If you ever need relief from the austere aesthetic of Gropius, Mies and Corbusier, consider the sumptuous work of Robert Mallet-Stevens. ...
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Food in fiction from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
We hear a lot about the story of food but what about the food of stories? Valerie Stivers talks about how food can help us read the classics and why trying...
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Reclaiming the city from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In Seattle, Washington State, protestors have occupied the site of an empty police station and the blocks surrounding it. Jeff Hou explains the significanc...
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Lost and Found — Budapest from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
From the Ruin Bar to Budapest's spectacular thermal bath houses, Bela Lajta's proto-deco Parisiana nightclub to Bartok's transformational impact on 20th ce...
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Iconic Designs: Arcosanti from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In the unforgiving landscape of Arizona, there's the remnants of a big dream, a place that was planned as a huge city where thousands would live in harmony...
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Architecture in Global Socialism from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
How collaboration during the Cold War between architects, planners, and construction companies from socialist Eastern Europe and those in West Africa and t...
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Kitchen Rudimental: reopening du Fermier from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
One chef, one cook, one home kitchen; this week, Annie Smithers discusses the challenges of reopening a restaurant in the wake of a pandemic. ...
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Lost and Found — Copenhagen from 2021-01-30T10:06
We discover the joys of Smørrebrød, rail against the Noma-inspired culinary trend of muscle reduction, indulge in a hygge polemic and visit and exp...
Scoff: A History of Food and Class in Britain from 2021-01-30T09:35
Napkins, fish knives, scones and teatime: a study of the strange and enduring relationship of class and food in Britain.
Kitchen Rudimental: cooking with late summer zucchini from 2021-01-30T09:20
Chef Annie Smithers makes zucchini pasta.
The architecture of bathing from 2021-01-30T09:06
Dive into the architectural history of communal bathing, from the Soviet banya to the onsen, hammam to our contemporary COVID-safe public pools.
Lost and Found — Christchurch from 2021-01-23T10:06
Willows, green grass, craft beer, arts festivals and the crispest air - come on a mind journey to ?tautahi.
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Iconic Designs: polar fleece from 2021-01-23T09:55
A manmade fibre that signalled a shift in our relationship to nature and the great outdoors.
COVID-19, the meat industry and the climate crisis from 2021-01-23T09:35
Troy Vettese on the relationship between infectious disease, industrial agriculture and environmental degradation and why meatworks have been at th...
The invention of the slow cooker from 2021-01-23T09:20
The strange and cholent-inspired origins of a great culinary invention that, almost a century on, is having a major revival.
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Corridors: from utopian origins to sites of dread from 2021-01-23T09:06
The corridor has long been a source of psychic disturbance - from gothic fiction to horror films and haunted houses. So how did the corridor go fro...
Lost and Found — Lake Burley Griffin from 2021-01-16T10:06
Come on a mind journey to Canberra's great not-so-natural wonder, Lake Burley Griffin, featuring carp, politics and a surprise stopover in Lucknow,...
Iconic Designs: the cable car from 2021-01-16T09:55
A stomach-churning but memorable experience of elevated transportation.
Letting the restaurant industry die from 2021-01-16T09:35
Who would benefit most from going back to life before Coronavirus?
Sense of Place: Rick Morton, outback Queensland from 2021-01-16T09:20
Journalist and author Rick Morton takes us to the harsh, isolated, arid world of far west Queensland where he grew up.
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Beyond the North Wind: Russia in recipes from 2021-01-16T09:06
Darra Goldstein takes us north of the Artic Circle where she discovered the true heart of Russian cuisine.
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Lost and Found — Reykjavik from 2021-01-09T10:06
Step into the icy wilderness and come on a tour of the Icelandic capital, featuring cardamom pastries, hot springs and a visit to the phallological...
Iconic Designs: the bowler hat from 2021-01-09T09:55
Cartoonish, sexy, menacing, political - the perplexing and varied history of a fashion icon.
Falastin: a love letter to Palestine from 2021-01-09T09:35
From East Jerusalem to Nablus, Haifa to the West Bank, Sami Tamimi and Tara Wigley take us on a tour of Palestinian cuisine and reflect on the rela...
Jonathan Safran Foer on a world without meat from 2021-01-09T09:20
Jonathan Safran Foer talks about the relationship between the production of meat and racial injustice, economic inequality and environmental degrad...
The architecture of urban violence from 2021-01-09T09:06
Founder of Forensic Architecture, Eyal Weizman, discusses the reinvention of the city as the site of politics and the use of urban space as a means...
Lost and Found – Vienna from 2021-01-02T10:06
These days the Austrian capital is widely known as the world's most liveable city. But in the cosy, domesticity of that term 'liveability', there's...
The many advantages of a bird bath from 2021-01-02T09:45
After a hot, destructive summer, a backyard bird bath could provide welcome respite for wildlife.
Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism from 2021-01-02T09:20
From Marie Kondo to empty imboxes, cleanses and detoxes to light and airy instagrammable interiors, minimalism now touches every aspect of contempo...
The politics of street food from 2021-01-02T09:06
What does street food do for the life and liveliness of a city? Does it's resurgence reflect a desire for a different kind of urban social life?
Lost and Found — Brixton from 2020-12-26T10:06
Come on a mind journey to Brixton, an bustling intersection where diversity, community, gentrification, house music and calypso collide.
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Aesthetically and ideologically bankrupt: the problem with tiny homes from 2020-12-26T09:35
Jack Self on the bleak economic compromise and minimalist mystification of tiny homes.
Ruby Tandoh on lockdown food dreams and rice pudding from a can from 2020-12-26T09:20
Ruby Tandoh talks about the joys of chicken nuggets, the nihilism of the wellness industry and how we might recover pleasure in a world of food anx...
The architects who shaped Jerusalem from 2020-12-26T09:06
A journey through the fraught, messy, complex streets of modern Jerusalem, a city definitively shaped by three very different architects.
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Lost and Found - Country from 2020-12-19T10:06
Has there ever been a better time to learn about this place, our home; about country, connection, the stories of the land and its people?
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Stonefields: a visit to the farmhouse from 2020-12-19T10:06
Landscape design, seasonal planting and rural tranquillity; Paul Bangay gives us a tour of his iconic garden.
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Iconic Designs: the magician's wand from 2020-12-19T09:55
From the Zoroastrians of Persia to Harry Potter, the magic wand has endured as a cultural icon.
Kitchen Rudimental: a Christmas special from 2020-12-19T09:35
One chef, one cook, one home kitchen. This week, Jonathan and Annie talk Christmas turkey, pudding, pavs and what to do with a glut of berries.
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Sense of Place: Tim Ritchie, Sydney Harbour from 2020-12-19T09:20
Photographer and former broadcaster Tim Ritchie on pre-dawn loneliness and the beauty of empty Sydney.
Sense of Place: Nguy?n Phan Qu? Mai B?c Liêu, Vietnam from 2020-12-12T10:46
Author Nguy?n Phan Qu? Mai takes us to the small rural town where she grew up and witnessed the devastation of war in 1970s Vietnam.
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The Blade - Australia's love affair with lawn from 2020-12-12T10:35
Annie Hastwell takes a behind the scene look at a new travelling exhibition following the history of the lawn, and of that game changer, the lawn m...
Pre-colonial multiculturalism... on a plate from 2020-12-12T10:20
We're not used to thinking of multiculturalism in this country as something that occurred before colonisation, but it was present nevertheless.
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Plexiglass: a cultural history from 2020-12-12T10:06
From the illusion of epidemiological and economic resilience to social and racial segregation, Plexiglass has become a potent material symbol of th...
Lost and Found — Montreal from 2020-12-05T11:06
Come on a culinary journey through Montreal, from the world's greatest bagels to maple whiskey, via Leonard Cohen's favourite steak house.
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The irrepressible rise of the mocktail from 2020-12-05T10:45
A decline in drinking particularly among young people has been accompanied by the increasing popularity of the mocktail; intrepid producer Buffy Go...
Kitchen Rudimental: a meditation on the picnic from 2020-12-05T10:35
One chef, one cook, one home kitchen. This week, we tap into the COVID-normal zeitgeist and get some hot tips on how to do summer picnics.
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Sex and death: the story of the orchid from 2020-12-05T10:20
Phaius australis, once found throughout the wetlands of the Queensland coast and hunted to near-extinction, is reanimated in a new installation by ...
The art and science of food pairing from 2020-12-05T10:06
The aromatic molecules behind your favourite food pairings, from strawberries and balsamic, to orange and chocolate and possibly even oysters and k...
Lost and Found - Golf course from 2020-11-28T11:06
Golf courses have become sites of contest, where urgent questions around public space, environmental protection and community in rapidly growing ci...
How budget airlines and silicon valley start ups shaped tourism and travel from 2020-11-28T10:55
There was a time in travel culture when internet cafes and travel agents reigned supreme.
20 years in design: Colin Bisset on bamboo, shabby chic and the proliferation of screens from 2020-11-28T10:45
Colin Bisset and Jonathan look back on the first two decades of design since 2000, through the lens of materials, trends and innovation.
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From Devil Wears Prada to Rana Plaza, a look back at the last two decades in fashion from 2020-11-28T10:40
Fashion and sustainability journalist Clare Press discusses the challenges faced by the fashion industry during this period.
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How the 21st century has shaped our cities so far from 2020-11-28T10:20
Landscape sociologist Claire Collie joins Blueprint to chart our cities trajectories over the last two decades.
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20 years of gardening trends and discovery with Millie Ross from 2020-11-28T10:06
Gardening Australia's Millie Ross traces gardening trends, from backyard blitzes to indoor plants and reflects on her own journey as a gardener.
Lost and Found — Los Angeles (Part Two) from 2020-11-21T11:06
From food court dumplings to rooftop martinis, Alhambra to Compton, we take a journey through the sights, sounds and flavours of LA.
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Return to Kangaroo Island from 2020-11-21T10:45
Half of Kangaroo Island was lost to blazing bushfires last summer; but with Australians confined now to the continent, local producers are enticing...
A walk through late spring from 2020-11-21T10:20
From the coolth of fern valley to the arid world of succulents, via spring time viburnums, Jonathan takes a tour of the botanic gardens as the seas...
Stephanie Alexander's life in food from 2020-11-21T10:06
On her 80th birthday, the great doyenne of Australian cooking reflects on her life in food, restaurants and words.
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Lost and Found — Los Angeles (Part One) from 2020-11-14T11:06
From farmers markets to taco trucks, Bel Air to Compton, we take a journey through the sights, sounds and flavours of LA.
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Kangaroo Island: after the fires from 2020-11-14T10:45
Half of Kangaroo Island was lost to blazing bushfires last summer; but with Australians confined now to the continent, local producers are enticing...
Kitchen Rudimental: Braising from 2020-11-14T10:35
One chef, one cook, one home kitchen. This week, how to braise lamb.
Sense of Place: Richard Flanagan, Tasmania's West from 2020-11-14T10:20
The great Australian writer takes us to Tasmania's west and reflects on beauty, destruction and a vanishing world.
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Piinpi: the first major survey of contemporary Indigenous Australian fashion from 2020-11-14T10:06
A chat with exhibition curator Shonae Hobson and artist Naomi Hobson about fashion performances, connection to country and the movement between the...
Lost and Found — Naples from 2020-11-07T11:06
In Napoli beside the sea, under the dormant eye of Mt. Vesuvius, a bustling hub of culture awaits.
Iconic Designs: Syracuse Cathedral from 2020-11-07T10:55
One of the world's oldest cathedrals that tells the story Sicily, both sacred and profane, in one slightly crazy burst of architectural energy.
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Cooking together with The Bent Spoon from 2020-11-07T10:35
Introducing a new cooking program where food becomes the meeting point of support, storytelling, cultural traditions and celebration of the LGBTIQA...
Sukkah: an architectural celebration of spring from 2020-11-07T10:20
In celebration of the Jewish harvest festival of Sukkot ( delayed in Melbourne by lockdowns) a Sukkah has opened as a space for Melburnians to at l...
The 99% Invisible City from 2020-11-07T10:06
Roman Mars on a decade uncovering the functional genius and accidental absurdity of our cities, from street signs and power grids to fire escapes a...
Lost and Found — Bondi Beach from 2020-10-31T11:06
Grab your reef-friendly sunblock, your towel, your beach book and find a place on the sand of Sydney's most iconic beach.
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Iconic Designs: Gae Aulenti from 2020-10-31T10:55
A figure of inspiration for women in a male-dominated profession, who combined architectural elegance and utility in a unique way.
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Sense of Place: Sarah Wilson, Crete from 2020-10-31T10:35
Writer Sarah Wilson recounts the hikes, Greek hospitality, grief and healing she experienced whilst visiting the Greek island.
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Kitchen Rudimental: Poeling from 2020-10-31T10:20
Annie and Jonathan continue their journey through the principles of cookery; this week, poeling.
Urban auscultation from 2020-10-31T10:06
From audiometers in the 20th century to speech recognition and audio analytics in the 21st, the history of our cities is a history of listening.
Lost and Found — Berlin (an urbanist's tour) from 2020-10-24T12:06
Occupied power stations, community gardens, squats and cooperatives - a journey through a city unique for its unwavering collective commitment to o...
Sense of Place: Anandavalli, Kapaleeshwarar Temple from 2020-10-24T11:45
The internationally-renowned dancer, choreographer and teacher of Bharatha Natyam and Kuchipudi transports us to the South of India where Indian cl...
Architecture of the university from 2020-10-24T11:35
In light of the current university crisis we look to its architecture and ask how it has reflected prevailing ideology and what the dematerialised ...
Grief, mourning and the world of lost objects from 2020-10-24T11:20
A new play explores the relationship between grief, mourning and the world of things - themes particularly resonant in a city consumed by a sense o...
State of the World's Plants and Fungi from 2020-10-24T11:06
A new report assessing the health of the worlds plants and fungi delivers grim findings.
Modern architecture and climate: design before air conditioning from 2020-10-17T11:45
In the history of modernism, air conditioning has long been seen as a great turning point; but, in an age of climate crisis, what is to be done abo...
Kitchen Rudimental: Stewing from 2020-10-17T11:35
One chef, one cook, one home kitchen. This week, the fourth principle of cookery - stewing.
Sense of Place: Alex Wheatle, Port Maria from 2020-10-17T11:20
The award winning author takes us to the site of one of Jamaica's bloodiest rebellions via the music of Bob Marley and the Wailers.
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Hunger in Australia in 2020 from 2020-10-17T11:06
Bushfire and economic recession have exacerbated Australia's hunger crisis in 2020. Where to from here, and what can individuals do to help?
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Lost and Found - Torres Strait from 2020-10-10T12:06
A mind journey to a landscape of sky and water, bubbling reefs and delicious food shared generously.
Iconic Designs: The blackhouses of the Outer Hebrides from 2020-10-10T11:55
Against a wild landscape, pummelled by Atlantic winds and framed by a vast sky, stand enchanting, traditional Scottish houses.
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Sense of Place: Jinghua Qian and Liz Crash, Footscray from 2020-10-10T11:35
Explore the streets of Footscray and uncover its secret histories.
Hetty McKinnon on ancestry and authenticity from 2020-10-10T11:20
Cook Hetty McKinnon discusses the flavours and meals of her childhood and the pleasure of cacio e pepe udon noodles
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The legacy of Kenzo Takada from 2020-10-10T11:06
In the wake of the great designer's death, Ben Mazey reflects on his colourful legacy and his transformative impact on the world of fashion.
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Lost and Found - Jakarta from 2020-10-03T12:06
Megacity of 30 million people, culturally rich, rapidly sinking, we take a tour of frenetic, thrilling Indonesian metropolis.
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Iconic designs: The rotary clothes hoist from 2020-10-03T11:55
The forgotten history of an icon of Australian domesticity and an essential feature of the Australian backyard.
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Eat Like a Fish from 2020-10-03T11:45
Reformed fisherman, Bren Smith, is leading a campaign to get people to rethink sea-based agriculture and argues seaweed is a crucial ingredient in...