PEOPLE
BRUCE RICKARD - 1919-2010 - OBITUARY
by Paul McGillick
posted 6/10/10
I last saw Bruce Rickard a couple of months ago when we drove out together to see what is probably his last built house at Duffy’s Forest on the northern edge of Sydney. It was the perfect day for it – a rainy, mid-winter day which lent a wonderfully poetic quality to this lovely rural area. The house was pure Rickard – identifiably Rickard, but with the invariable touch of innovation, in this case the wave-like steel trusses which lifted the roof of the spacious living/dining/kitchen area up to the northern light and rolling landscape.
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by Paul McGillick
posted 6/10/10
I last saw Bruce Rickard a couple of months ago when we drove out together to see what is probably his last built house at Duffy’s Forest on the northern edge of Sydney. It was the perfect day for it – a rainy, mid-winter day which lent a wonderfully poetic quality to this lovely rural area. The house was pure Rickard – identifiably Rickard, but with the invariable touch of innovation, in this case the wave-like steel trusses which lifted the roof of the spacious living/dining/kitchen area up to the northern light and rolling landscape.
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LIS UTZON - 1919-2010 - OBITUARY
by Philip Drew
posted 3/9/10
The death of Lis Utzon on Sunday August 29, 2010, at her home in Denmark closes an era. Lis tended to be overlooked but she was quite remarkable in a quiet, retiring way. a beautiful elegant woman of striking Scandinavian appearance, slim, long blond hair, she had a natural unpretentious style all her own. You might almost say that her approach to dress epitomized Utzon's own very direct and natural sense of form in his designs.
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by Philip Drew
posted 3/9/10
The death of Lis Utzon on Sunday August 29, 2010, at her home in Denmark closes an era. Lis tended to be overlooked but she was quite remarkable in a quiet, retiring way. a beautiful elegant woman of striking Scandinavian appearance, slim, long blond hair, she had a natural unpretentious style all her own. You might almost say that her approach to dress epitomized Utzon's own very direct and natural sense of form in his designs.
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