If you are of a certain age you will remember the Cold Chisel song "Flame Trees" which I admit is one of my favourites. In fact I love it so much I got my significant other to buy an Illawarra Flame Tree (from which the song gets its name) and plant one here at GG central. We have called it Don Walker in honour of the man who wrote the song. see here and here's the clip on then singing the song.
anyway I am digressing which is my want!
Yesterday we heard on the radio about a project from the University of Wollongong who were entering a solar decathlon in China of all places and the re-engineered house which was their entry was open for tours and talks about sustainable building, so we were down there in a shot!
here is the link to the house info but in the meantime here are some of our pics with some commentary from me.
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| the kitchen |
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| The same Parker Lounge that we have at home! |
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| Loving the vertical herb garden just outside the kitchen |
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| Another Parker beauty, dining setting, loving the fabrics on the chairs |
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| Looking into the kitchen from the deck(next to vertical garden) really like the serving windows |
it was a really interesting couple of hours, and I hope to let you know if they did well at the Solar Decathlon.
