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With weekly transport costs exceeding $500 in some cities, a leading urban planning expert believes Australians are facing an ‘Affordable Living Crisis’ rather than a ‘Housing Affordability Crisis’.
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“If you don't know, vote no”. Stupid bogan slogan. Reply? “If you don't know, find out”. Not just about the referendum, but indigenous culture. By extension, so many architects need to find out about indigenous thinking about country, and how it can influence design.
We have a housing crisis, and we need solutions to the shortage of houses now, not in two-or ten-years’ time when the HAFF may begin to produce maybe 6,000 houses a year.
Last week we celebrated NSW Labor Premier Chris Minn's decision to not do something: abandoning replacement of the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, aka Powerhouse, in Sydney’s Ultimo, in favour of a reno, and some small alts and adds.
I've written 200 columns of criticism and commentary in the last three years, 175 longer pieces on Tuesdays and 25 collections of shorter snippets on Fridays. I’m combining the two now on Tuesdays: longer pieces of current commentary as well as absurdities that take my fancy. Enjoy.
Being scooped out of bed by Mum in the predawn exodus known as ‘going on holidays’ was always a sickening sign of things to come. For school holidays in those days (let’s say the 60s) meant being deposited in the back seat of Dad’s car (including, during one particularly bad holiday, in the almost windowless Chrysler Charger. Jesus) and driving like a bat out of hell for one or two days, straight, toward our much-loved Victorian based family.
Two controversies collided this week. The Line city project in Neom parted ways with David Adjaye (reported this week in A&D). For those who came in late, an explanation.
You may have heard about the fiasco at the Women’s World Cup on Wednesday night. No, not the Matildas losing. Rather how many of the 75,000+ fans were left stranded after the game when the trains stopped with a signal failure.
Embracing the culture, soul and character of education and social infrastructure projects is a passion. The capacity to listen to clients and reimagine existing assets informs our consultation, briefing, synthesis, and design visioning process, enabling us to create engaging educational and community spaces that are simple, but have deep meaning.
Non-metropolitan areas need long-term planning if they’re to accommodate more people.
In April Cameron Bruhn took charge of the AIA (the Aussie one not the US one*). I praised the appointment and looked forward to changes. I stand by that expectation, but four months on, and it’s crickets out here.
This week the SMH highlighted a confluence of coincidences to bring fresh ideas to the housing debate. Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal are French architects whose work on French public housing garnered much attention and the Pritzker Prize.
