Nathan Johnson

Australia’s Suters architects has been acquired by Bangkok-based firm DWP, consummating a four-year alliance between the two firms.

Retrofitting our existing building stock and increasing density in our cities were two suggestions made by Maher as solutions to Australia's affordable housing crisis during a recent speech at Parliament House. But underpinning Maher’s address was the need for doing density well, i.e. matching density with transport and social infrastructure, ensuring high-density housing is designed well, and ensuring that density is not done to the detriment of our environment.

Three years on since it was spectacularly approved for development by then planning minister Matthew Guy, Melbourne’s tallest skinny skyscraper could finally be going ahead.

In 2014, Britain’s Oxford University released a report charting the vulnerability of 702 occupations in terms of their likelihood to be replaced by various forms of computerisation in the future. But while the predictions are yet to be proved totally accurate, a few recent inventions, one in Perth and another in the US, do hint that change is on the horizon for brickies.

"There’s a culture of not engaging with construction in our profession, and that’s a malaise. Some schools of architecture are guiltier of it than others. If we don’t re-engage with construction, it will marginalise our profession." - Andrew Waugh

Nettleton Tribe is the latest architecture firm to bear the fruits of Sydney Uni’s billion-dollar redevelopment of its city campuses, and it’s a project that could end up having a significant impact on student accommodation design in Sydney.