Sun 16th Nov, 2014 in News

English metalcore crew Architects will return to Australia in April for their first national headline tour since 2010.

The band was here in September supporting The Amity Affliction and played two intimate headline gigs in which both sold out in less than 48 hours, but on their return in 2015 theyll play their own dates in Perth, Adelaide, Canberra, Newcastle and Brisbane in addition to Sydney and Melbourne shows.

Touring their sixth album, Lost Forever, Lost Together, Architects will be supported by two bands from California Stick To Your Guns and Being As An Ocean and Sydney five piece Stories who will release their debut album just before the tour kicks off.

Thursday, April 9 Capitol, Perth (18+) Friday, April 10 HQ, Adelaide (Lic/AA) Saturday, April 11 Arrows, Melbourne (AA) Sunday, April 12 170 Russell, Melbourne (18+) Wednesday, April 15 Anu Bar, Canberra (18+) Thursday, April 16 Roundhouse , Sydney (Lic/AA) Friday, April 17 Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle (18+) Saturday, April 18 The Hifi, Brisbane (18+)

Tickets on sale Thursday, November 27

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Fort Worth, Texas (PRWEB) November 17, 2014

Historic bricks from the Roman Forum and other world landmarks were displayed in the Acme Brick Company booth at this years convention of the Texas Society of Architects (TSA) in Houston.

The brick were from Acmes Walter R. Bennett Collection which is housed at Acmes Fort Worth, Texas headquarters. Bennett, son of company founder George Bennett, traveled the world collecting bricks from every continent for his collection. Bricks on display in the Acme Brick booth at TSA are from Pompeii, the Roman Forum, the Great Wall of China, Phi Mai Temple in Thailand, the U.S. Capitol Building, Bostons Old State House, the foundation of the Statue of Liberty, Knights of Pythias Hall in Fort Worth, Texas and the Citadel Laferriere in Haiti. Bennetts goal was to demonstrate that cultures around the globe valued genuine brick as the ultimate building material. A dramatic, circular 6 x 44 photographic mural depicting these sites served as a backdrop to the collection.

The brick shown at the Houston event were protected by Pinkerton, the famed risk management agency that traces its roots back to 1850. Acme Brick CEO and President, Dennis Knautz said, Most of the brick in this collection are one of a kind and irreplaceable, so we thought it wise to hire the best in the business to keep them secure. Scott Spencer, Pinkertons Houston Operations Manager said, We were honored to be selected as the security provider for this museum-quality collection, and have a wealth of knowledge in keeping priceless collections secure while preserving the exhibit experience for all visitors to enjoy.

The TSA convention was attend by some 3,500 architects and industry professionals November 6 & 7 in Houstons George R. Brown Convention Center. Acme Brick executives believe that the educational brick display has increased architects awareness of the role that hard-fired brick has played in cultures worldwide.

Acme Brick Company, founded in 1891, is the nations largest brickmaker. Acme operates 26 brick plants and has 70 company-owned sales offices across 17 states, plus a nationwide network of independent distributors. Other Acme operations include American Tile & Stone; Featherlite Building Products; Innovative Building Products; and Texas Quarries. Acme Brick Company has been a wholly-owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. since 2000. For more information visit us at http://www.brick.com. Also find us on Facebook at facebook.com/acmebrickco .

ABOUT PINKERTON Pinkerton traces its roots to 1850, when Allan Pinkerton founded the Pinkerton National Detective Agency. Today, Pinkerton offers organizations a range of corporate risk management services from security consulting and investigations to executive protection, employment screening and protective intelligence. With employees and offices worldwide, Pinkerton maintains an unmatched reputation for protecting clients and their assets around the globe. For more information, visit: http://www.pinkerton.com.

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Architecture Van Brandenburg

The Architecture Van Brandenburg-designed headquarters for Chinese fashion label Marisfrolg is under construction in Shenzhen, China.

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Fred Van Brandenburg and his son Damien build models of their designs in their Dunedin studio before a single brick is laid.

Nicola Feeney

Fred Van Brandenburg and his son Damien build models of their designs in their Dunedin studio before a single brick is laid.

Rising from the bare earth of a construction site in Shenzhen, China, is the giant new global headquarters of the international fashion giant Marisfrolg.

On completion in 2017, the 120,000-square metre complex will encompass a catwalk and function area for launching collections, rooftop gardens, design offices, a factory, warehousing and a 50-room boutique hotel - all set in five hectares of garden, with ponds that capture water for re-use.

Extraordinarily, this behemoth was all designed in Queenstown, and refined in Dunedin, making it perhaps New Zealand's largest-ever architectural commission. Since 2007, first in design, then in construction, Architects Van Brandenburg have worked solely on Marisfrolg, until recently turning down all other work.

Incomplete, yet elegant, it resembles the outsize bones of some extinct beast. Certainly, it doesn't look very practical. But, says principal architect Fred Van Brandenburg, "this is a sculpture people can reside in". It's a mark of the impact Van Brandenburg has made since arriving in New Zealand in 1987. He gave up a successful career in apartheid-run South Africa to immigrate, a decision that came at a cost as emigrants were unable to take their assets with them. Penniless, Van Brandenburg and his wife Diane, four children in tow, arrived just in time for the 1987 stockmarket crash. Out of the resultant dearth of architectural commissions he emerged - largely by fluke, as he gleefully admits - the last architect standing from an initial group of three who tendered for the design of the Millbrook resort in Queenstown.

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The folks over at Sight Unseen have unearthed a wondrous trove of jewelry designed in high postmodern style by 1980s architects. All but forgotten except for a collection of 150 images in an out-of-print book from 1988, the wildly creative rings, necklaces, and earrings were commissioned by Italian designer Cleto Munari, who had the genius idea of asking architects like New York Five member Peter Eisenman and Memphis Group luminary Ettore Sottsass to create jewelry between 1982 and 1986. Some had dabbled, but most had never designed jewelry before. The resulting pieces break the rules of size, shape, and weight, in the most compelling way.

When Sight Unseen asked Japanese architect Arata Isozaki about the "language" of his long-forgotten jewelry, he replied: "I used vaults, cubes, pyramids, sometimes cylinders. They are really architectural volumes. My jewels are architectural models."

When Italian architect Michele De Lucchi was asked what sort of woman he pictured wearing his fantastic one-off designs, he said: "A very, very beautiful and maybe lonely woman."

Peter Eisenman, meanwhile, gave Sight Unseen what could be the most postmodern quote ever: "Their scale is not taken from the scale of a person. As such they deny any connection to or embellishment of human form. They are not in the least decorative. Neither are they representational. They are part of a scale continuum of objects from the ring to a building."

Most people would respectfully disagree with his statement that the fabulous architectural jewelry is not decorative, but anyway, read the whole interview at Sight Unseen. Photos, below.

Cover of Jewelry by Architects by Barbara Radice via Sight Unseen

Jewelry by Hans Hollein via Sight Unseen

Jewelry by Ettore Sottsass via Sight Unseen

Jewelry by Ettore Sottsass via Sight Unseen

From the Library of Sight Unseen: Jewelry by Architects [Sight Unseen] Jewelry By Architects: From the Collection of Cleto Munari by Barbara Radice [Amazon] All Moonlighting posts [Curbed National]

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