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This is a feature profile of Sydney architects Neil Durbach and Camilla Block, of Durbach Block architects. The feature was commissioned by PolOxygen magazine and published as ‘A Very Different View,’ in PolOxygen: The International Design, Art, Architecture Quarterly, issue 20, 2007, pp.90-98. Words by Naomi Stead.

In 1979, in a formal ceremonial gesture, the architect and theorist Luc Deleu laid ‘the final stone of Belgium’ in the courtyard of the International Cultureel Centrum in Antwerp. His point was that Belgium was complete: the country was full, totally built up, and that there was no more room for architecture. This might seem [...]





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