Fashioning a Career in Architecture
Melbourne has gone through many changes since I used to visit the CBD as a child with my mother and younger sister in the 1960s. Changes in liquor licenses and the development of laneway culture are...
View ArticleCalling Australia Home
Stepping onto the shores of Australia almost a decade ago as an overwhelmed international student from Sri Lanka, all I had known and heard about this massive landmass down under was the cricket,...
View ArticleArchitecture – A Family Affair
I clearly remember growing up in a house filled with drawings and plans. My father was an architect – Peter McMahon, Director of Property Services at the (state government) Housing Commission /...
View ArticleThe Evolution of Melbourne Architecture
I always enjoyed building things, and was able to follow in my father’s footsteps. He was originally a carpenter, but would later go on to become an architect. In my fourth year of study I developed a...
View ArticleAn Eye for Detail
I have had an interest in design and art for as long as I can remember. I had a practical interest and I wanted to see how that progressed. I enjoyed maths and physics in high school so I tried to find...
View ArticleDipolar Nationality
How did Australia become my second home? Sydney, ’97. We arrived on her 801 sub-class visa. She purchased me a plush ginger cat from the stopover airport, and at seven years old I understood this toy...
View ArticleJudy Chancellor – Butterfly Lady
Judy Chancellor joined the newly formed President’s Auxiliary of the Deafness Foundation in 1994 with great enthusiasm and artistic ability. Little did she realise that her volunteer involvement would...
View ArticleIn Pictures: The old and new of Footscray
The unique cultural hub of Footscray is the latest inner-city suburb to undergo gentrification. In the past, Footscray has been a melting pot for newly arrived migrants and generations of bleeding...
View ArticleNikki Sideways
I spent my youth in Melbourne, wandering the empty streets of the city on the weekends, all the shops were shut, cool winds blew fierce. I remember feeling very alone. The streetscape mimicked my sense...
View ArticleForgiveness is the Key to Life
I give Nelson Mandela so much respect for being able to actually forgive such a terrible event in his life. Forgiveness is the key to life, and his actions were the epitome of forgiveness. I think that...
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