Talking Architecture & Design Podcast (Episode 225) - 2024 AIA Gold Medal Winner Philip Thalis on urban density, transport design and how to fix Sydney Listen Now
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    Treated wastewater in Victoria is still contaminated, study finds.
    Treated wastewater in Victoria is still contaminated, study finds.

    Wastewater is a by-product of humanity produced all day, every day. At home, wastewater is the used water that disappears when you flush the toilet, empty the sink or drain the washing machine.


    Week 23/23: Better than backyards + balconies / Shameless promotion / Beyonce, Jay Z and Tadao Ando / A Kiwi Leaf story / Bookends: 50 years of shelter / Signs off with a 76 truck
    Week 23/23: Better than backyards + balconies / Shameless promotion / Beyonce, Jay Z and Tadao Ando / A Kiwi Leaf story / Bookends: 50 years of shelter / Signs off with a 76 truck

    This is a recent renovation of a pocket park in Camperdown, originally on the site of a factory. Fifty years ago the area was all factories, warehouses, a children’s hospital and low-rise public housing (Albo grew up 200 metres from here). Now it’s wall to wall apartments in those old factories, the hospital and newer high-rise public housing.


    Surry Hills: Once the centre of New South Wales’ ‘rag trade’
    Surry Hills: Once the centre of New South Wales’ ‘rag trade’

    Sydney has awoken to the smouldering ruins of its largest city fire in 55 years. The “abandoned building” in Randle Street, Surry Hills, adjacent to Central Station was once the R.C. Henderson Ladies Hat factory, a six-storey brick structure built in 1912.


    Here are 7 compelling reasons why you should enter the 2023 Sustainability Awards
    Here are 7 compelling reasons why you should enter the 2023 Sustainability Awards

    All the reasons you’ll ever need to enter the 2023 Sustainability Awards.


    Our cemeteries face a housing crisis too. Four changes can make burial sustainable
    Our cemeteries face a housing crisis too. Four changes can make burial sustainable

    Australia’s housing crisis is no secret. What many people don’t realise is that there’s another, less visible housing crisis. Australia’s urban cemeteries are running out of space to house the dead.


    Community batteries and power sharing are becoming mainstream
    Community batteries and power sharing are becoming mainstream

    To power Australia without fossil fuels will mean using batteries to store power from solar and wind. We often think this means home batteries – or large grid-scale installations.


    Electricity prices are rising again. Here’s how to ensure renters can cash-in on rooftop solar
    Electricity prices are rising again. Here’s how to ensure renters can cash-in on rooftop solar

    Consumers struggling with cost-of-living pressures were dealt another blow on Thursday, when the Australian Energy Regulator confirmed energy price hikes of up to 25% from July.


    Exploring what makes us human – and whether modern technology threatens to destroy it
    Exploring what makes us human – and whether modern technology threatens to destroy it

    The great – if sometimes overlooked – 20th-century philosopher and cultural critic Günther Anders once proposed that our modern age is characterised by a dangerous and pervasive “Apocalypse-Blindheit”: a blindness to the apocalypse.


    Week 22/23: Palm Springs plans / More ABC homes / Plibersek’s resignation / Filling in infill / Queenstown in Venice / Bookends: Venice / Signs off the grass
    Week 22/23: Palm Springs plans / More ABC homes / Plibersek’s resignation / Filling in infill / Queenstown in Venice / Bookends: Venice / Signs off the grass

    Palm Springs is in the Zeitgeist in Australia. A couple of months ago we discussed Lost in Palm Springs by Greer Honeywill in a Bookends review in Things. Now habitusliving (no relation) has published a piece on Modernism week by Australian Jack Lovel. Whilst all enthusiasm for this sunny bright modernist city is welcome, there is a dark side that is rarely mentioned.


    Product Review: LG 55" 4K OLED EVO TV + Art Gallery
    Product Review: LG 55" 4K OLED EVO TV + Art Gallery

    LG has introduced its latest OLED TV model, which presents a departure from the company's usual minimalist approach.


    Standard pool sizes – what are the average dimensions of a swimming pool in Australia?
    Standard pool sizes – what are the average dimensions of a swimming pool in Australia?

    There are a range of standard dimensions that are used depending on the type, shape, area and frame of pool. Here’s how to navigate the options.


    ‘Painting with fire’: How northern Australia developed one of the world’s best bushfire management programs
    ‘Painting with fire’: How northern Australia developed one of the world’s best bushfire management programs

    Right now, hundreds of bushfires are burning across northern Australia. But this is not a wildfire catastrophe – in fact, these burns are making things safer in one of the most fire-prone landscapes in the world.


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