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Friday, October 29

Houses of the Future - until Sunday 31st Oct 

Clay House. Architect: Tone Wheeler of Environa Studios


Concrete House. Architect: Peter Poulet of the NSW Government Architects Office

Went to see the Houses of the Future exhibition yesterday. It was great! They had fact sheets to collect and the names of the products used were on display. You could walk through the houses. I liked the 'green roof' with the plants on top of the concrete house, and the artwork on the concrete walls by Peter Poulet was really cool. I liked the flexible, movable units in a couple of the houses too. They included kitchen benches, wardrobes, and beds, that were on wheels and made of steel and bold laminate colours. They were produced by Interspace. Go and see the exhibition if you have time!

Blurb from City of Sydney website: "An exhibition of six cutting-edge homes built to celebrate the Year of the Built Environment. Constructed in steel, timber, clay, concrete, cardboard, and glass, the houses show new developments in affordable, sustainable and prefabricated housing and are large enough for visitors to walk through."

Location: Sydney Opera House Forecourt
Dates: 15 - 31 October
Time: 9.30am - 5.45pm

W: http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/artandabout/Housesforthefuture.html

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