How strange for a new Perth building to be a not worst! The new library was lovely. Not entirely sold on the outside, maybe timber rather than the granite, but it was good. Light and open. But a library must be judged by its contents no? Specifically you need to look at the Cussler Clancy ratio. Unfortunately there’s about a metre and a half of Cusdlers to a scant few Clancys. Yes, both are shit writers, but Cussler is an insult to reading. But the library location can help. One too many Cusslers and you can either drop in on She-Ra for a spot of Darjeeling, hit the reasury bars, or pray at the cathedral. Any choice is the right one. I joined on the spotT
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The Worst of Perth 
Thanks. Didn’t know it had moved back.
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Is Winton in Action or Thriller?
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His books are in the “Aboriginal Ghost Appears On Page 54” section.
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Winton is in self – improvement .
Marvellous to see potboiler authors , unlike certain architects , now credit the real sources of their output .
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Lol, I didn’t even notice those Clancys weren’t Even written by fucking Clancy!
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Check out the cusslers too from that standpoint ( smaller print )
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Who had Dick Doodlehole as the protagonist? Cussler or faux Cussler I think.
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Isn’t that D D on the ceiling ? with plants and things growing on him
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If Cussler wrote an Aussie Tempest, yes.
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Nah I doubt it then … All the co – cusslers have names that sound like golf pros and Perth isn t Bermuda
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Well , architectural standards in Perth are admittedly low … This warmed over Asplundh and Aalto might have been worse .
The Swedish meatballs at IKEA are cheap and delicious and salmonella free
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“A shot rang out…”
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Spare a thought to what this income displacing ( for the Anglican Church ) library has caused a bit further west : a refurb of cloisters square into yet another impenetrable megablock to house some of the the former law chambers .
Its cheap as chips exterior treatment closely resembles its predecessor in design sophistication .
Its trendy food court is the oughties equivalent of the fern bar minus liquor that once was a venue for cops on cathedral square
Perhaps a smallish price to pay for a nice above ground reading room but hardly progress
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Haven’t been to cloisters for a long time. Must have a look.
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Don’t bother.
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Yeah on the outside it actually looked better before
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There’s a beautiful car park at the waterfront Mirvac hotel in Cairns which the interior — what the hell , the exterior too ! — of our new library closely resembles …
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Old school media , the book is dead.
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Ceci tuera cela !
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Has anyone done an essay on wrapping the ground floor of public buildings in cellophane ( ie butt jointed glazing ) as a symbol of transparenz and openness to the worthy public aka us the taxpayers ?
A few steps away cox did it in their refurb of the town hall undercroft arcade with similar throwaway results .
If this were reversed at least the ground floor of p t h could resume its original and rightful function as open air market
But in the care of this round peg in a square hole it is the only way to play peekaboo with SGC from Hay Street . So much for site permeability
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The building next door is somewhat unfortunate. I forgot to get a shot. I was too weighed down with Cusslers to get my phone out.
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The SAT building. I could spend hours watching people walk into the glass panels that look like automatic doors.
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Despite that one, it’s a nice space to be in, between library cathedral and treasury. With She Ra’s hideout behind you. On the other hand, I stood in the carpark of Barberry Square Kalamunda this very morning, with the tilt up completing an almost 360 degree vision of hell. I don’t think there a worse built space in the entire city.
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But no better place to buy clumpy shoes and get a gas bottle refilled.
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Gas might be another of Kalamundas famous “for lease parlours” now. I think I saw it gone last time at Golden Eagle. Not sure.
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A metaphor for planning controls in this town if ever there was one !
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Have you stood in the carpark of Barberry Square Kalamunda? You’ll love it.
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YES
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Kalamunda is near the bibulmun which , if you hollow it along piesse brook as far as the rocky pool , you ll see many fine relics of other ancient human habitations
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Kalamunda’s entrance statement to the track, was the original inspiration for Teh Brandenburg. Must see.
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Better go back and have a closer look then ! and remember to channel Langhans when I do …
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What the track people don’t say is that the indig ppl living there were shot by cops and settlers. They started where the lakes now is, took a bearing of mt dale, shooting at every group they found around the back of Pickering brook to the darkin river, roughly following where the b.track now is. Interestingly, they were shot at by an unknown party they presumed were other settler vigilantes hunting the same Noongars. You’d think kala shire would be proud of their history and share with tourists. It wouldn’t necessarily wreck the wilderness experience. That book about City dudes getting hillbillys up their bums did wonders for bluegrass music pre g.clooney. A dead hand emerging from mundaring weir would make a good poster. If tourists are really lucky they may even see a blind inbred playing banjo in barberry square.
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Our day will probably come too , at the rate we seem to be going . But what we leave behind wind be nearly as fine
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wind = won’t
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Yes, I agree. Timber rather than granite for the facade of a building containing books of record. Far more combustable.
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I trust the federal govts Winston Eradication Squad have gone through the building with a fine tooth comb….can’t have books masquerading as litreture cluttering up the place.
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Another good reading room for archi & design mags etc is the foyer level of the new northbridge tafe … The one with the laser lighting and mega ducts .
Meditate on what percentage of the local and foreign students will ever put what they see on paper to use …
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Well they won’t use it here. Unless it was mini orb weekly they were reading.
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God darn auto spell nu fangled rubbish gizmo thingy….
Winton, not Winston…..get it?
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One day there will be a reading room in there named after him … mark my words !
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Probably is already. Didn’t go past level 2
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Now I really AM scared …
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not yet.
the terrace is a fine place to admire the roofs of the treasury buildings.
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