Nice. Subtle. BCakes. Bentley.
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The Worst of Perth 
One would think that an “Innovation Centre” would have a building that was less Cold War bunker and more….. well, innovative.
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Well, there IS some curved brickwork. Borders on art deco.
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Le Corbusier precursor to the tilt
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Post Shedism?
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Virilio and the oblique
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horizontal banding also a nod to art deco.
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Draws in the eye. It does have this 1980’s aura of Alan Bond shedism.
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Let me say the pre shedist treasury and old Lands buildings are looking fantastic. Treasury could do with a skillion roof though.
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your original cynicism perhaps wrong?
keep an eye on the roof.
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It looks restored but old. Which is perfect.
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Let’s get rid of innovation entirely and replace it with shitloads of vibrancy.
Much more pertinent to present day administrative thinking.
Changing things is just so unsettling.
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Must be an innovation center for dwarves. Roof looks about 4 foot high
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Turn it into a meth lab. That would be innovative, if somewhat unoriginal.
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hardly innovative in this town.
now, a car through the front wall into the meth lab, that might be something.
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I had just been standing at the retort stands only a few minutes before…
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In Radelaide it’s falling trees that sometimes expose their clandestine activities: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-02-04/hydroponic-drug-crop-exposed-when-tree-falls-onto-house-during-/5236396
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We don’t need no stinking thinking under our retro leadership.
http://joannenova.com.au/2014/02/the-deification-of-climate-saints-curtin-universitys-sacred-nobel-wall
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I see Drew Blottie has run this one up the flag too.
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/prize_exaggeration_at_curtin_universitys_shrine/
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“There are non so blind as those who will not see.”
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Oh, did you have to do that? Now I feel all kind of dirty, and not in a good, porn-watching sort of way.
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And so, in return:
http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/hotel-casanus
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It screams, ‘innovation without inspiration’.
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Look Shazz, we’re both in in South Freo. I swear to god I can hear a dog barking in French!
Also get a Staffy..
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