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• urban-development-planning
  "Institute spokesman Carey Lyon says while parts of the building are already heritage-listed, a nomination for remaining sections is still being considered. He says the institute is also keen to prevent a change to the development control plan, which would allow even more of the building to be demolished.." (aaus_06.08.07)

• belconnen-2617
  "He's probably one of the three architects with a significant international reputation, so the designer is important but also, the buildings themselves are extraordinary ... They are really the premiere example of a certain school of thought for the design of this city and they are an extraordinary building" (Royal Australian Institute of Architects' spokesman Carey Lyon in aaus_06.08.07)

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• lament
  "The whole of the Cameron Offices is listed on the Australian Heritage Commission's Register of the National Estate. They are included in the RAIA's Register of Significant Twentieth Century Architecture ..." (Peter Freeman and Graeme Trickett, aaus_00.09)

• imminent demise
  "Further, the RAIA is in the process of nominating nationally and internationally significant Australian architecture to the UIA (International Union of Architects). The Cameron Offices are included in the initial list of seven buildings." (Peter Freeman and Graeme Trickett, aaus_00.09)

• oblivious
  "They are also one of only 35 Australian buildings included in the Oceania volume of World Architecture : A Critical Mosaic, a ten-volume history of 20th-century architecture." (Peter Freeman and Graeme Trickett, aaus_00.09)

• none matter
  "More than two-thirds of the Cameron Offices are to be demolished. A 340 space, on-ground carpark is planned for the current site of the two northern office wings, while medium density housing will replace most of the southern office wings - only two will be left standing."(Peter Freeman and Graeme Trickett, aaus_00.09)

 
• "miraculous" p u s h
  "The stepping action of the building made an interior column solution difficult and wasteful. ... The solution was to take the columns outside the buildings and use the courtyards for structure. .... As always, the best way to solve the problem is to eleminate it." (John Andrews in Jennifer Taylor, "John Andrews: Architecture a Performing Art," 1982)

• pack of cards
  "Each wing is dependent on the next with the ladder frame structure of the walkways on the north side providing the anchorage for the gantry beams across the courtyard, from which the southside of the adjoining wing is suspended. ... if you cut the tension members of the top end the whole building will fold down the hill like a pack of cards." (Jennifer Taylor, arev_78.03)

• all sorts of   " r e t u r n a b l e - b r i e f s "
  "The original brief was to build five 15-story towers, but we were able to get them to change the program by proving all sorts of things about circulation, expansion, and connection ... " (John Andrews, pa_73.02)

• buckets
  "The main problem with the office landscaping is that the occupants just got carried away. With outdoor landscaping so apparent from all parts of the building, indoor potted plants everywhere are unneccessary. A couple of the wings look like indoor plant nurseries complete with Norfolk Island pines growing in the tubs." (John Andrews, in Taylor_1982)

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• raunch
  "It was the first book ever to have a launch party at New York City's Museum of Modern Art." (time_96.12.23)

• commencement
  "Office for Metropolitan Architecture was founded in 1975 but already had 10 staff in 1972." (Martin Pawley, wa47_96.06.00)

• [30,000 copies]
  first copies
  • "Richard Meier Architect" (Richard Meier, Oxford) was printed in the spring of 1976 an edition of 8,150 copies consisting of 6,250 paperbound, 1,750 casebound, and 150 signed and numbered copies.

  • "Anchoring," (Steven Holl, PAP) was printed on the occasion of February 9, 1989, limited to 1999 copies.

  • "Eleven Authors In Search Of a Building," (Davidson CC Editor, Monacelli) -- 4,000 copies of this book were printed by The Hennegan Company on Mead 80lb Signature Dull -- 1997.