Oh no, just read on The Age that the Fairhaven Pole House (or to most people That-House-on-a-Pole) by Frank Dixon on the Great Ocean Road is coming down this week!!! You can read the full article at the link above, we just want to express our sadness to see this piece of Victorian architectural history goes, however we've learnt that F2 is on the job, so at least it is in the hand of another good architect. Frank thanks for the wonderful building that you have given us, it will always stay in our memory.

Image: The Age, Oblica

Le Corbusier’s Unite d'Habitation has been severely damaged by fire on last Thursday 09 Feb. The nine-story residential and part hotel building in Marseille, France became a historic monument in 1995 and serves as one of the most important postwar landmarks of modernist architecture.

The fire began Thursday afternoon in a first floor duplex. Firefighters fought over 12 hours to tame the blaze and were able to bring it under control earlier this morning. Many reports state at least eight to eleven homes were destroyed and twenty to thirty were damaged by smoke.

Our staffer Jimmy Taylor just came back from a trip to India, and of course he has stopped by Le Corbusier's Capitol for Chandigarh, one of the architectural mecca for architects The urban and architectural work of Le Corbusier in Chandigarh is under the tentative consideration of UNESCO World Heritage list, and the photo above is the Legislative Assembly Building which is one of the four ‘Edifices' on the Site.