Little Architects launched for 2010
Monday, March 8, 2010 at 12:03PM
Lock-Up Launches Little Architects Program for 2010
The Lock-Up Cultural Centre welcomes back their Little Architects this week with another packed program of art, architecture and design.
Lock-Up Director Gerry Bobsien says the weekly program for school children is a unique opportunity to combine creativity with invention. “The kids involved with this program get enormous satisfaction out of learning design basics and combining this with art and architecture. It is all about exploring the city and the buildings and landscape within it,” she said.
“Our patron, the internationally renowned architect Glenn Murcutt is very passionate about the connection between drawing and design. So we have a strong creative component to the program with excellent tutors skilled in both art and architecture.”
Week 1- Welcome to Little A's 2010
Little A's will use this session to discuss upcoming projects and prepare for the year ahead. They will also do some drawing with a focus on experimenting with marks and observing their surroundings.
Week 2- Exploring colour
This session is all about colour; how we use it, how it relates to design and how it can make us feel. Little A's will be introduced to a range of design concepts relating to colour and will produce an artwork exploring the possibilities of different colour combinations.
Week 3- Feeling the world
This session will explore the idea of using texture to activate spaces and surfaces. Little A's will produce their own cave of textures and will discuss the connection between how things actually feel and how they make us feel.
Week 4- Order vs Chaos
This session will contrast two different starting points for creating a design and will explore concepts of rhythm, pattern and composition. Little A's will begin with a set number of basic design elements which they will piece together to create a work. Little A's will then produce a collage of random elements and use this as the basis for a second work.
Week 5- Fantasy Lands
This session will challenge Little A's to design fantastical buildings in response to a range of strange environments. Little A's will be given photos of different landscapes and will draw/ collage buildings and structures in amongst the environments.
Week 6- Highs and lows
This session is all about the city and how the heights of buildings relate to each other.
Little A's will talk about high rise versus low rise buildings and will then create their own skyscrapers. As a group the little A's will then put together a miniature cityscape.
Week 7- Skin deep
This session is all about the facades of buildings and how surfaces can be activated in different ways. Little A's will talk about different ways architects design the outside of buildings and will then design their own facade. Little A's will be encouraged to think about detail, light and texture.
Week 8- Echoes from the deep
This session is all about sound and acoustics. Little A's will explore the way sound interacts with architecture. They will use various rooms in the lockup to create and record noises and will the put together their own soundscape.
90 Hunter Street
Newcastle NSW 2300
P 02 4925 2265
F 02 4926 5835
Geraldine@thelockup.info
14 April 2009
Warwick Watkins
Director General
Department of Lands
GPO Box 15
Sydney NSW 2001
Newcastle Historic Reserve Trust : Urgent maintenance requirements
Dear Mr Watkins,
This letter follows recent discussions with yourself, Minister Kelly and Allison Bone at the April Cabinet meeting in Newcastle. As discussed, the Newcastle Historic Reserve Trust is concerned with the immediate need to re-paint the three significant State buildings in their care. This letter will provide some background on the buildings, the need to preserve the building fabric and to retain our long-term corporate tenant following the expiry of their lease in January 2011.
The Newcastle Historic Reserve Trust is responsible for the preservation and maintenance of the Newcastle Historic Government Buildings comprising:
- Former Newcastle Police Lock-up
- Former Newcastle Telegraph Office (former CIB)
- Former Newcastle Post Office (former public works).
The group of buildings, along with the existing 1903 Post Office site, are of great significance to Newcastle and New South Wales, having been described as the most important urban group outside the Sydney Metropolitan area.[1] The buildings are listed on the Newcastle Local Environmental Plan as being of State heritage significance.
The NHRT is currently facing the increasing challenges of building repair and maintenance costs and has exhausted avenues for private sponsorship or government grant funding for the scheduled external re-paint of all buildings. This work is not eligible for Heritage Grant assistance as it comes under maintenance rather than conservation. If the buildings remain unpainted there is a danger that the building fabric will be undermined with a greater risk of losing our corporate tenants with their lease expiring in January 2011. We have already applied
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