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International and internal migration trends have driven rapid growth in the big cities, especially Melbourne and Sydney. This has created major problems with providing adequate housing, infrastructure and services.
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Modern buildings have seen rapid development in recent decades, with a push towards sustainable practices and improved energy efficiency. But the advancement of fire safety has been less prioritised, and we need to rethink our approach.
Sydney is a city of ghosts: so much of the historic building fabric of this city is gone.
What do we mean by affordability, particularly affordable housing, and how could architects help?
A plan to provide homeless people with overnight beds and shelter in car parks might sound like a good idea but it does little to solve their problem in the long term. There are other proven ways we can help those sleeping rough to break out of the homelessness cycle.
What if, in weighing up the pros and cons of private schooling, and in calculating their economic costs versus benefits, we’ve all missed something rather important? Until now, no one has considered the impacts on city traffic.
There has been an unprecedented increase in the area of blue gum plantations in southern Australia. More koalas may seem like a good thing, but perversely this could ultimately harm their welfare (and the welfare of other native animals and plants), and disrupt the plantation industry.
Australian society has changed significantly since cemeteries in Victoria were planned and designed 150 years ago. But there haven’t been any major redevelopment or review of the community’s changing requirements for what happens to our bodies when we die.
It is becoming increasingly possible that sea-level rise of a metre or more will occur this century. Yet the very act of officials identifying homes exposed to sea-level rise can be vehemently opposed by the owners, let alone policies to deal with it.
We are fast approaching crit season in our architecture schools (not to mention all the other design disciplines). Some 10,000 students across the 18 Australian architecture schools will present their end of year schemes to a panel of assessors, academics and practitioners.
Here’s the boldest idea the government’s inquiry into retirement incomes should consider but might not: no longer exempting all of the value of each retiree’s home from the pension assets test.
Why are our transport systems so fragile, and how could we make them more resilient? The answer may lie in the infrastructure we provide for the emerging trend of micro-mobility – devices that are small, light and usually electric-powered.
