Love best of old new in places, cities, public life, heritage, culture, architecture, design and sport. Own views. RTs are not endorsements.
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Caroline Butler-Bowdon retweeted
2 Nov 2023
400 photographs. 200 photographers. 3 centuries.
#Shot is a free exhibition on display in our new underground Photography Gallery.
Learn more: ow.ly/3qhZ50PXq9m
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Caroline Butler-Bowdon retweeted
26 Oct 2023
Getting to know the new State Librarian!
Dr John Vallance with our incoming State Librarian, Dr Caroline Butler-Bowdon.
We look forward to welcoming Caroline when she starts at the Library on 15 Nov.
Listen to an interview with @cbbmuse (at 02:01:59): ow.ly/qxEm50Q0S4h
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14 Mar 2023
These two legends. Pretty special to attend the Sydney book launch tonight of ‘The Sinister Booksellers of Bath’ published by @AllenAndUnwin. So proud of you, @garthnix ♥️♥️ #sinisterbooksellers @statelibrarynsw
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Caroline Butler-Bowdon retweeted
2 Feb 2023
Best to take a walk or drive - the low-grade & ordinary are ubiquitous.
As well as Boyd’s Aust Ugliness, also Living & Partly Living, Howard Tanner’s Housing in 70’s, @cbbmuse book on apartment buildings & #CharlesPickett’s book on Fibros, 52Suburbs (see their Instagram, these👇🏿
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30 Dec 2022
Pele, Vivienne Westwood and Arata Isozaki. It’s too much. Limitless talent. Three proper influencers and extraordinary human creativity right there.
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Caroline Butler-Bowdon retweeted
3 Dec 2022
Designers on Design | 13.
“Everything changes so quickly, and what is state of the art one moment, won’t be the next.”
Charlotte Perriand, architect/designer, France.
instagram.com/p/ClsqJcpoeux/
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3 Dec 2022
What an amazing World Cup for us. Super special to join the local community from all different backgrounds - and where our 16yo began playing football - to watch AUSvARG. At 6am on a Sunday. Love our team. So proud. Big thanks @HPWanderersFC @ourcbcity 🙏💛💚 #GiveIt100
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Caroline Butler-Bowdon retweeted
3 Dec 2022
A record amount of live sites around the country is such a beautiful thing. Tomorrow is historic.
Already this team, this tournament has changed the game and the country for the better.
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Caroline Butler-Bowdon retweeted
30 Nov 2022
Denmark had players who play for Manchester United, Barcelona, AC Milan, Leeds, Tottenham, Sevilla.... but ZERO A-League players
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Lucky enough to experience the new wing @ArtGalleryofNSW during day and night this week. So impressed. Art and architecture woven together in magical ways. What a great addition to our city. Thank you to everyone who worked on this project for the past decade #artgallerynsw ✨❤️
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26 Nov 2022
Heroic. So so good. Pretty noisy night at our place … ‘Socceroos strike to break 12-year World Cup drought’ ❤️ smh.com.au/sport/soccer/socc…
Caroline Butler-Bowdon retweeted
26 Nov 2022
THEY'VE DONE IT!!!!! 💛💚
The @Socceroos win their first @FIFAWorldCup match in 12 YEARS!
#FIFAWorldCup #SBSWorldCup #WeAllSpeakFootball
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24 Nov 2022
This is great news. Go Tim ✨✨
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Caroline Butler-Bowdon retweeted
8 Nov 2022
Peter Barber named 2022 recipient of the Soane Medal! 🏅 I spoke to him about his most ambitious project yet, and his radical plan to revive coastal Britain from Orkney to the Isle of Wight theguardian.com/artanddesign…
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3 Nov 2022
Big congrats and thanks to all our partnering councils, and my brilliant team ✨🙏
3 Nov 2022
The winner of the Community Wellbeing & Diversity Award is awarded to @TransportforNSW, Cities and Active Transport Division for the Alfresco Restart Package – ‘The Festival of Place… in your streets’ program. #PIANSWAwards22
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Caroline Butler-Bowdon retweeted
29 Oct 2022
Today we reopened the #royalexhibitionbuilding dome promenade to regular public access for the first time in over a century. I've worked with some wonderful people to help make this happen and built on the work of many others who have come before me #worldheritage #thisismymv
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13 Oct 2022
I am so so proud of this team. Tonight we won the @PlaceLeaders Asia Pacific 2022 Large Scale Place Project for Places to Love. We are very grateful to all our partnering councils, Blacktown, Burwood, Cumberland, Liverpool, Parramatta, Penrith, Sydney, Tweed, Wagga Wagga 💫❤️🙏
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4 Oct 2022
I’ve swum in a few ocean pools in my lifetime. This one was super special 💙#oceanpools #publicspaces #sapphirecoast
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