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We’ve discussed lots of solutions to the housing crisis recently. Different typologies: duplexes, townhouses, small (4 storey) and larger (8 storey) apartments (ToT 167). Ideas for the ‘missing middle’: 6 bedrooms, 6 packs and 6 storeys (ToT 210). And we explored the sustainability of apartments (Tot 213). But what’s the best?
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Debate is raging about Peter Dutton’s bomb throwing idea of nuclear power. Sizes, power output, timing, grid connections, waste. Very little about the designs, our main interest in this column.
A UNSW transport expert may have the found the solution to one of the biggest pet peeves of drivers: sitting in traffic.
Not far inland from Port Campbell in Victoria lie three depleted gas fields. These underground sandstone reservoirs now have a second life, as the state’s main gas storage, responsible for 30% of the state’s winter gas demand.
Microfactories, an innovative approach to extracting value from waste materials, point the way to sustainable production and consumption.
Master-planned communities on urban infill sites offer an opportunity to deliver on the 20-minute neighbourhood principles, with residents able to access their daily needs within a 20-minute walk from home while embracing key pillars of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
School performing arts programs are increasingly becoming more sophisticated in the opportunities and experiences they afford students, teachers and the broader community.
Everyone agrees there’s a housing crisis. House prices and rents have risen far beyond inflation, increasing unaffordability for many in society. Increasing stress, decreasing lifestyle choices and worse, homelessness. But nobody agrees on the cause. Or the solution.
As cities get increasingly crowded, could a switch to smaller, lighter, and more nimble transportation systems make life easier and less expensive for people?
Architects, as the visionary creators of our built environment, bear a significant responsibility in championing this cause by ensuring people with disabilities and human diversity have input into the design process.
The housing crisis in NOT one of supply. We already have more houses than households.
Governments need to prioritise retirement villages in their housing strategies to cater for the fast-growing population of older people in Australia.