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Concrete sleepers are a staple of home building. They are commonly used outdoors in a variety of ways.
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Humans do a lot of different things to the environment, and there aren’t many natural processes – aside from an asteroid impact or the like – that can rival the scale of change brought on by human activity. In this episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast, we speak to three experts who study different ways that people are affecting how plants and animals evolve – and how humanity has become the single biggest driver of evolutionary changes on Earth.
Housing took centre stage in Treasurer Jim Chalmers’s first budget this week. Relatively modest but positive steps were made towards tackling Australia’s worsening shortage of affordable social housing, as well as the broader challenge of housing affordability. But parts of the package cast some doubt on the new government’s analysis of the problem and its ambitions to tackle it.
As people age, they often become less confident about walking. Fear of falling can limit the activity of older people, leading them to become isolated.
Baths are usually the first thing to go when it comes to designing a small bathroom. However, these tiny bathtubs prove that you can still enjoy a long soak in a small space
Whole towns and cities are seemingly locked into more frequent and severe flooding. Business-as-usual development continues despite extreme weather and sea-level rises due to climate change. While some local councils have online mapping, others are still using outdated paper maps.
Ceilings are an important component of the internal architecture of educational spaces, contributing to the way space performs visually and acoustically. Long gone are the institutional-style ceiling tiles in grids which offered little in the way of visual stimulation.
Private rental housing provides homes, often long-term homes, for one in four Australian households.
Here’s how to make the most of a four-bedroom home.
How do we design healthcare facilities where everyone feels included? The answer is to give people a choice.
What is the role of an industrial designer? An industrial designer is the expert who can methodically plan and conceptualise creative and innovative systems that traverse the constraints of traditional building materials and construction methodologies, to deliver concepts that push the boundaries of design.
Woods Bagot principal Christopher Lye shares his thoughts on how built retail – despite the recent disruption – holds significant placemaking power if designed with the right priorities in mind.
