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EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS FREE ADMISSION -
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EXHIBITIONS
Remodelling Architecture: Architectural Places - Digital Spaces Exhibition Space, Level 2 Five years after the first Australian Architecture Association (AAA) Young Architects exhibition at Customs House, curator Gerard Reinmuth revisits this theme but with a focus on Sydney practitioners exploring the potential for digital technology in architecture and urban design practice and installations. Image: Australian Architecture Association
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Testing Reality: The Architect and the Model Red Room & Media Wall, Ground Level The exhibition explores the changing role of the model in today’s architectural practice. The focus of the presented material is shifted from the usual static display of abstract objects to an interactive exploration of the processes, techniques, materials and people involved in the creation of architectural models. A modernist building designed in the late 1940’s by the iconic Australian architect Harry Seidler – the Marcus Seidler House – becomes the focus of a series of architectural models produced especially for the exhibition. The exhibition is supplemented by insights into the behind-the-scenes design process of some of Europe’s leading offices. Images and movies of the work of Jean Nouvel, Bolles+Wilson, EMBT and Delugan Meissl among others reinforce the importance of the model in today’s globalised digital environment. Image: Mark Szczerbicki |
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NOCTURNAL photography exhibition Library & Exhibition Lounge, Level 1 In this series Solness seeks out an essence of place in every photograph - whether virgin Australian bushland or the stone skin of the land. Each image is shot within 50km of the Sydney CBD, demonstrating how closely we dwell to such a powerful natural landscape. Intricate bushland scrub, towering and sensuous trees, gentle waterfalls, the ocean and Indigenous rock art paintings, are all treated with great passion and respect with Solness' camera. By making the artistic choice to light each vista, he reinvents each scene before him, adding a dream-like nocturnal beauty to every photograph. Yet despite their photographic purity and lack of manipulation, there remains something painterly in this photographer’s approach. Light doesn’t reflect, so much as emit from each subject, in ways that are similar to Surrealist painters such as Paul Delvaux. Image: Peter Solness |
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IDEA09 exhibition & lounge Red Room, Ground Level As part of Idea Week 2009, an exhibition of all 275 shortlisted entries into the IDEA09 interior design excellence awards will be on display at Customs House. The exhibition will include background and past winners of Australia’s most prestigious interior design awards, as well as a temporary exhibition lounge specifically created for Customs House. Image: Niche Media |
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ModelCity time-lapse and 3D lenticular exhibition Red Room & Media Wall, Ground Level Sydney photographer Peter Murphy has produced a series of novel kinds of stereoscopic multimedia pieces and panoramic time-lapse videos for his exhibition ModelCity. His latest work exploits breakthrough hardware and software technologies in the areas of auto-stereoscopic (no-glasses-required 3D) image capture and display, and panoramic video stitching and warping. At the same time there is a sense of the city as a toyland. On the Media Wall, Murphy shows a series of 360 degree time-lapse videos of Sydney CBD scenes in a circular ‘little planet’ perspective. These views paradoxically provide a simultaneous experience of god-like overview and immersive panoramic immediacy. In the Red Room, Murphy uses a large 3D screen to show a hologram-like slideshow of Sydney and the City Model, a series of large 3D lenticular prints emphasising the built environment, and an interactive kiosk where users can navigate time-lapse videos. Image: Peter Murphy |
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EVENTS
Australian Masters 2009 golf live site Customs House Square, forecourt FREE to the public Customs House Square will be host to one of the official live sites in Sydney for the Australian Masters 2009, the tournament that Greg Norman became synonymous with. The action will be streamed from Melbourne including the world's greatest golfer Tiger Woods and Australian Geoff Ogilvy. The live site will also include a putting green and pampering for the ladies. Image: Holiday Inn |
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Ferrero Festival Of Light Customs House Square, forecourt FREE to the public A beautiful visual light show will be projected onto Customs House facade inspired by Ferrero Rocher’s iconic gold pralines. The show will combine dynamic creative with technology able to read the architecture of the building to transform Customs House during the two weeks. The Festival Of Light promises to wow Sydneysiders and add to the festive atmosphere of the season. Image: One Green Bean |
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