Month: August 2008

‘Monumentality’ is a Social Justice Essential—Brisbane architect, Russel Hall, speaks out at the Group of 17

by Dan O’Neill

On Wednesday the 3rd of September at 7pm, the next rambunctious though convivial meeting of the 17 Group in unit 6 at 20 Drury St West End:

Well-known Brisbane architect Russel Hall on the need for monumentality… Is Brisbane too gutless to inspire its citizens as it builds QPACS and Museums with low ceilinged public spaces?… Go to Article

Zionism’s dying – a change in Israeli perspective?

By Ray Bergmann 13/08/08

Israeli historian Ze’ev Sternhell, described in The Founding Myths of Israel (published in Hebrew in 1995 and in English in 1998), the motive of Israel’s leaders for retaining the conquests of 1967 as “imperial expansion”, and he decried the Israeli occupation and Israel’s nationalistic settlement of the West Bank as a major impediment to “Israel’s ability to develop as a free and open society.”… Go to Article