The Making of a Minimalist Monument to Moi

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Posted on June 3, 2013 by Steve MinOn
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The Beginning

Ok, so this is how it happened. I got selfish. There’s no other way to describe how I arrived at this moment in time. I have good reasons to be …

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Posted on June 3, 2013 by Steve MinOn
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A Bridge Too Far?

Before we go too far, let’s take a step back, to a time when I was happy and accommodating others’ opinions. As an escape from the compromises of loved up …

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Posted on June 4, 2013 by Steve MinOn
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Privacy Out The Window

There’s a thing called the pre-1946 rule in Brisbane. The town planners use it. To approve a development, they often refer to an aerial photograph taken of Brisbane in 1946, …

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Posted on June 5, 2013 by Steve MinOn
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Steve Stadium

Dear Arne Jacobsen. Dear Charles and Ray Eames. Dear Le Corbusier. I’m leaving you. Goodbye. Though I appreciate your looks, hell, everybody down at the reproduction shop does anyway; I’m …

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Posted on June 25, 2013 by Steve MinOn
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Local inPhormation

I’m no Tokyo virgin. I’ve been there a bit over the years. The first time I went, I was that wide-eyed guy with the camera, the phrase book and the …

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Posted on July 3, 2013 by Steve MinOn
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Under the microscope of an architect.

Yo Shimada arrived in Brisbane last Friday with his colleague Chie Konno to begin the process of designing the Minimalist Monument to Moi. In the interest of tight-arse frugality, I …

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Posted on September 27, 2013 by Steve MinOn
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Having a “P” on Hamilton Hill.

If you have a “P” you piss money away. A “P” is the sort of classification you hope you never get when you commission a soil report on a site …

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Posted on October 17, 2013 by Steve MinOn
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Living takes imagination.

Have you ever tried to listen to the words of an architect and then visualise them as something you can live in, walk around in, cook a meal in, socialise …

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Posted on October 28, 2013 by Steve MinOn
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I want my ma.

When I tell my friends that I’ve commissioned a Japanese architect to design a minimalist monument to moi I know they’re thinking, “here we go again”. I know they’re wondering …

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Posted on December 23, 2013 by Steve MinOn
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Prepare Thy Thighs!

It’s not unexpected that there are as many stairs as there will be stares with this house. I’ve looked long and hard at the latest 3-D visuals of my Minimalist …

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