Tone Wheeler
Tone Wheeler is an architect, author, educator and consultant with an abiding interest in environmentally sustainable design (esd). in the mid seventies at the university of sydney he assisted in the construction of the "autonomous house", a working example of a low energy house constructed entirely from recycled materials. upon graduation tone worked for the australian government in canberra where he designed a range of low cost social housing that won the r.a.i.a residential design award (c s ...Read More
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A scheme reviving three storey walk-up flats
Much talk recently about solving the housing crisis with increased density in existing suburbs (hello NIMBYs).
The Pattern Book Design Competition got the wrong answers
Ask the wrong questions - get the wrong answers. That’s how to judge the just announced winners of the Pattern Book Desi...
How 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 explains suburban failure
In this week’s Saturday Paper, prolific social researcher Hugh Mackay claims to have discovered “an overlooked cause of ...
Renewables or resilience. Design for both/and
Following on from last week’s column, I’m arguing it’s time to rethink our entire approach to climate design.
We lost the climate war: New battles in a changed climate
Trump won. The climate lost. Drill baby, drill. Burn baby, burn.
The pole-frame bush house by Graeme Gunn for David Yencken
If last week’s design-i on Graeme Gunn seemed personal, this week’s story is even more so.
A tribute to Graeme Gunn, our best suburban housing advocate
Graeme Gunn, Melbourne architect, academic and advocate died this month aged 91. You can read obituaries here, here and ...
Just how bad are Albanese’s housing problems?
Anthony Albanese has a whole raft of housing problems right now.
Could the Grenfell tower fire happen in Australia?
The just released report on the tragic fire at London’s Grenfell Tower makes harrowing reading. The sheer mendacity of a...
Tone on Tuesday 227: How to fix social housing, explained in six diagrams
Last week examined the social housing crisis in six diagrams. This week, in the last ever ToT, six essential diagrams ex...
Tone on Tuesday 226: The social housing crisis explained in six diagrams.
Last week we examined the current overall housing crisis in six diagrams. This week, six essential diagrams to explain t...
Tone on Tuesday 225: The housing crisis explained in six diagrams.
There is much confusion about the housing crisis. Let’s examine key issues and debunk myths with six essential diagrams.
Tone on Tuesday 224: The housing minister who didn’t build a single house
In the two weeks since Prime Minister Albanese shuffled his cabinet, the new Minister for Housing and Homelessness, Clai...
Tone on Tuesday 223: The Athlete's Village in Three Australian Olympics
Last week we looked at the Athlete’s Village at the Paris Olympics, 100 years apart. Two key issues in the 2024 edition ...
Tone on Tuesday 222: The Athletes Village in Two Paris Olympics
Paris has held two Olympic Games, exactly 100 years apart. The 1924 games were the first ever to introduce an Olympic At...
Tone on Tuesday 221: The Art of Sustainability - Sustainable Art
Despite Kermit’s maxim that “it’s not easy being green” it seems design wants to go that way these days.
