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Welcome to our second newsletter.
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| We've been busy talking the walk, researching some amazing new projects, polishing the bike tour week by week, gearing up slowly for Christmas... |
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If you're anything like us you've been in denial about Christmas for months.
And now you're panicking.
Well, if you want to really shore up your hard earned outcast-of-the-family status you can buy Gift Vouchers online for all our tours.
They're pretty, they can be personalised, they fit into an envelope and they look something like this (only they're much bigger). |
What's more, our tours are light yet serious, critical yet celebratory, a little intellectual but don't take themselves too seriously.
In short, you'll look great for thinking of it.
Until it rains... |
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you purchase vouchers before the 20th December we will print them onto some gorgeous paper stock we've got our greasy mitts on and slip them into the post at no additional cost (one postal address per order). |
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Photo Essay: 5-Suburb Derivé.
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The first dozen bike tours have been, we hope, a little bit awesome.
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| You can get a taste in this little photo essay Eoghan put together. |
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We have prepared a mini city guide to help the design-inclined navigate this big brash city of ours.
Its crammed full of hot tips, do's and more do's, places where its fun to get lost and projects you gotta see.
Its kind of like a really urban, really cool local friend who can fold up into your back pocket and doesn't say much. |
| We update it regularly and its our gift to you at the end of every SAW tour. |
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Thanks to the lovely people at Aesop we're giving away a little pack of delicious things for your skin on every tour.
SPF15+ sun block, moisturiser, body lotion...
This company really get good design but also have the product to back it up. |
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Hugo Moline joins SAW.
Winner of the prestigious Byera Hadley scholarship in 2006, graduate architect and co-author of those awesome yellow ductwork periscopes that just opened in Skittle Lane, Hugo loves Sydney for its arrogant wild beauty and the complicated, saggy and broken things below the surface and around the edge. |
Reonald Westerdijk joins SAW.
Fluent Dutch, German and English speaking architect and urban explorer, Reonald brings his brand of Super-Dutch but also a love of the city's back alleys and rugged edges to the conversation.
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Upcoming Tour Dates.
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To view our full seasonal selection of organic / biodynamic / sustainable / hand-made urban tours click here |
| DECEMBER 2011 |
| Sunday 11th 09:30 |
SAW Bikes. 5-Suburb Derivé > buy |
| Wednesday 14th 10:30 |
SAW 1. The City, Sydney > buy |
| Sunday 18th 10:30 |
SAW 2. Utzon > buy |
| Sunday 23rd 09:30 |
SAW Bikes. 5-Suburb Derivé > buy |
| Wednesday 21st 10:30 |
SAW 1. The City, Sydney > buy |
JANUARY 2012 |
| Wednesday 4th 10:30 |
SAW 2. Utzon > buy |
| Sunday 8th 09:30 |
SAW 3. Harbourings > buy |
| Wednesday 11th 10:30 |
SAW 1. The City, Sydney > buy |
| Sunday 15th 10:30 |
SAW Bikes. 5-Suburb Derivé > buy |
| Wednesday 18th 10:30 |
SAW 1. The City, Sydney > buy |
| Sunday 22nd 10:30 |
SAW 3. Harbourings > buy |
Regular walks throughout the year.
Check site for details |
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Research.
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Over the winter break, Eoghan went to Mallorca, clambered all over the two houses Utzon built there and had the great honour of meeting Utzon's daughter Lin to discuss a quieter side of his time in and post Sydney.
We're really proud of our Utzon tour.
Its the simplest of conversations; a portrait of the architect through his most famous work but at the same time a narrative of the building from Utzon's perspective.
The story will amaze you and we're not afraid to delve deep into the messy stuff neither. |
We have included 1 Bligh Street (above) in our SAW 1 - The City, Sydney tour - a really clever building playing little sister to Renzo Piano's Aurora Place and the imposing Governor Phillip & Macquarie Towers.
We have crawled all over it, interviewed the developer and architects from Ingenhoven and Architectus. |
We had coffee with Penny Fuller of Silvester Fuller, authors of a really clever Student Housing project in Chippendale.
And we broke bread
with great mate Hamish Ginn, project architect for Smart Design on the White Rabbit Gallery in Chippendale.
See SAW BIKES - Five Suburb Derivé |
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Featured Walk: SAW 1 - The City, Sydney
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Focussing on a gaggle of hi-tech, hi-profile cutting edge sky scrapers, this walk examines the city and the ideas and forces that shape it like its tides. |
Cost $35/$25 concession
Includes Lots of talking, quite a few jokes (some of which will be politically correct), some walking, loads of amazing architecture and public art, Aesop sunscreen and moisturiser and a copy of our mini city guide. |
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Reviews.
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Timeout dropped in on one of first bike tours.
Credit goes to the two lovely Gen-Y journalists.
Cycling wasn't exactly their thing but
they powered on regardless.
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| See what they had to say here |
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Projects.
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SAW was created by Eoghan Lewis around the time he started Supple Design, the public side of a private practice.
We have a bunch of new projects, a couple on site and all of them look like they will be a lot of fun. |
We are always on the lookout for interesting new projects.
The difficult ones often turn out to be the best.
Drop in to our Surry Hills studios for a look, a chat and a cup of tea. |
From July 2011, 1% of every Supple commission will be donated to a range of charities including Oxfam & Bush Heritage Australia.
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Help.
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When you're small, independent and opinionated you've got to be popular to survive.
If you like what we do it would be wonderful if you told someone about it - like Tripadvisor or your favourite blog.
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This is goin green 1949 style bitch. Balieve dat!
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The last word goes to Ice Cube - channelling Ray and Charles Eames.
Two minutes sixteen seconds in heaven.
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Thankyou and bye for now!
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We enjoy sharing our world with you. |
Feel free to make contact, and please spread the word.
Why not spread the love and forward this email on to a friend! |
Love,
- SAW |
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