Melbourne's inability to "build a single thing to impress", HPD's planning system "stinks" and overcrowding becomes NYC's new unofficial housing policy.
"How typical. How Melbourne, the city with the Parliament House still missing its great dome. The city with the Arts Centre still missing the copper cladding of its spire. The city that tried half a dozen times to build a city square before giving up and turning the space into a hotel forecourt. How typical for a city which, most shamefully, has even turned off the tap to its few modest fountains. What's with us? Why can't we build a single thing to impress? To delight? To announce that we dare dream?"
Herald Sun
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"HPD is always doing this, and it has to stop. It's a good plan, a good contextual plan, the kind we've been advocating for. The problem is, the process stinks."
The Architect's Newspaper
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"Many current housing rules stifle innovative design, restrict the construction of new affordable housing, and exacerbate the city's never-ending housing shortage - practically making overcrowding the unofficial housing policy."
City Limits
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"I have an issue with taking all the labour and componentry offshore. And I'd question the integrity of the product because I believe a container out of China is an inferior product to ours."
The Age
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"His Majesty's Theatre? A rat-infested dump; aesthetically of no value; it leaks; sight-lines are appalling; electrically hazardous - how it has avoided enforced demolition orders over the past 10 years is beyond me."
NZ Herald
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