Platform exhibition

Installed our exhibition in the glass boxes at Platform on Monday. It is a compare and contrast look at Charles Garnier's L'Opera in Paris and our recent project in Oxford St, Collingwood. We have used a combination of real materials (carpet and glass extrusions from the chandelier) and images of the spaces. Within the facade of the Paris Opera we have created a periscope that allows visitors to secretly view passers-by. 

Set within the representation of the Collingwood splash back are additional photographs of the Oxford St interior. They are back-lit and viewed via mirrors which makes them seem like glowing screens imbedded in the tiling pattern.

If you are in the city on Friday evening, come and have a look and join us for a drink.

 

Marquette for Platform exhibition

We are a part of a group exhibition at Platform gallery opening next Friday (3rd May). Our piece is a compare and contrast display of our recent Paris Opera, Collingwood which has photos of Charles Garnier's original building alongside our interpretation. To the side will be a variety of periscopes for spying!

Opening is from 6 - 8pm. Everyone welcome. 
More details and invite to follow.

(Gallery space is located in 
Campbell Arcade, also known as Degraves Street Subway, Melbourne.)

Earlier posts of this project can be found here, here and here.
Finished photos to be blogged soon.  

Another gratuitous plug

Another exhibition coming up in North Fitzroy.

Opening night is Wed 3rd October. 

Come along for a look and a drink.

For images of work in progress or earlier works see Kirsty's blog.

gratuitous plug

 

One of our director's has an art exhibition coming up in North Fitzroy. Opening is Wed 15th June, 2011. For a sneak peek and to see earlier works visit Kirsty's blog.

rembrandts exhibition

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Towards the end of November, Rembrandt’s Entertainment Centre briefly reopened its doors to the public. Instead of a floor show, an affordable buffet meal or a debutante’s ball, the drawcard was a newly abandoned restaurant concealing art installations. On display were site-specific installations created by nine Melbourne artists and architectural firms in response to questions of community, civic centre and the place Rembrandt’s held in the cultural memory of Melbourne’s eastern suburbs. The exhibition was part of an ongoing RMIT research project investigating suburban development in the City of Knox. We have written a review for Architecture Australia. Click here for entire article and pictures.

Venice Biennale

This model, made for the Australia Stand at the Venice Biennale 2008, abstracts a number of themes explored in residential alterations undertaken by our practice. Traditional architectural model making techniques are combined with domestic and bush crafts, using new (gold wire and boxboard) and recycled (street sweeper blades and beer boxes). Our built work focuses on the fabric of building and the ritual of habitation. In this model the investigation of 'making' is separated from that of occupation. The inner spindle creates rooms with occupiable edges. It synthesises the connectedness of the modernist open plan with the spatial and social ordering of the Victorian parlour spaces. The golden screen is a technological experiment. It provides a protective skin for the delicate silhouettes, filtering light and mediating views.