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Tone On Tuesday 150: The most important book published in Australia this year

. I invite you to check out my “seemingly over the top claim” by putting it on the top of your summer reading list, (before heading off to an indigenous locality taken from Langton's book). Just read the bloody thing. Tone Wheeler...

News | 22/11/2022

New appointments at John McAslan + Partners bolster international transport team

appointment as the practice starts on new infrastructure and associated projects. 'With our Sydney Metro City projects now complete, we are looking at opportunities aligned with the next stage of Sydney Metro," says Uleman. "Andrew led the...

News | 27/09/2024

Tone On Tuesday 149: John Gloag, the best architectural writer you’ve never heard of

About a year ago I found a tatty, dog-eared book on prefab architecture called House Out of Factory published in 1946. Written in the last year of WW2, with line illustrations and photos of contemporary examples, it made a persuasive argument for...

News | 15/11/2022

Sustainability Summit 2024: Early bird tickets for sale now

set to be the premier event for industry professionals committed to advancing sustainable design and construction. Held on 14 November at the prestigious Fullerton Hotel in Sydney, the Sustainability Summit will also be streamed live online...

News | 25/09/2024

Tone On Tuesday 151: The fall and rise of Daniel Andrews and Murdoch newspaper’s design fail

weekend, despite a sustained campaign of vicious vilification by the Murdoch press. We need only examine one image, in one article, to see what an epic fail News Corp makes of political journalism. On the 5th of November, the bottom feeding Sunday...

News | 29/11/2022

Sydney Metro City + Southwest line is officially open

The commission of the Sydney Metro City + Southwest line is part of a broader design consortium including Bates Smart and Aspect Studio’s, working in design unison on the over site development and urban design precinct. The commission of the...

News | 20/08/2024

New Associate Director at OCULUS

on a broad range of projects across Australia, including strategic documents, large-scale master plans, public realm, and mixed-use precincts – including Seafarers Rest Park and Melbourne Quarter in Victoria. Since joining OCULUS in 2015...

News | 25/09/2024

Coronation Property’s $9B Moore Point river city proposal moves forward – finally

. Formerly an industrial site on the banks of the Georges River in Liverpool in Sydney’s southwest, the 32-hectare property jointly owned by Coronation Property and Leamac Property Group is being reimagined to deliver one of the largest private urban...

News | 25/09/2024

$84bn lost to housing tax lurks? That would go a long way towards ending the housing crisis

Australia’s deep housing crisis is causing enduring and widespread harm. A key impact is that it is increasing inequality. Alan Morris, University of Technology Sydney Australia’s deep housing crisis is causing enduring and widespread...

News | 23/09/2024

Tone on Tuesday 138: A Different Approach to Culture

, and it remains untapped in our architectural and planning of cities, is a nascent, not to say naïve, idea that will be further considered in a forthcoming Tone on Tuesday. ...

News | 30/08/2022

Tone On Tuesday 145: How to address the impacts of climate change

Climate change is a two-sided coin. We act on climate change and climate change acts on us. Warning: the following contains nothing whatsoever on cow burps. Climate change is a two-sided coin. We act on climate change and climate change acts...

News | 18/10/2022

How your neighbour’s choice to go solar influences you

, University of Technology Sydney and Alexey Voinov, University of Twente What made you decide to go solar? Was it a sober assessment of the return on investment? Did you want to cut your power bills? Did you want to do your bit on climate change? While...

News | 13/09/2024

Episode 220: David Malvern from Sekisui House on the rise of prefab house designs in Australia

developed the unique ability to successfully lead and manage large home building operations through his hands-on understanding of home building in NSW. In this interview, he explains the SHAWOOD prefab home building model and whether the solution to...

News | 03/09/2024

Greater Sydney's housing remains unaffordable on median full-time income until next decade

no longer enough to comfortably enter the housing market anywhere in Sydney, according to this new study. Researchers Dr Bangura and Professor Lee are adamant: there is nowhere in Greater Sydney where someone on the New South Wales median part...

News | 25/07/2024

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Tone On Tuesday 150: The most important book published in Australia this year

New appointments at John McAslan + Partners bolster international transport team

Tone On Tuesday 149: John Gloag, the best architectural writer you’ve never heard of

Sustainability Summit 2024: Early bird tickets for sale now

Tone On Tuesday 151: The fall and rise of Daniel Andrews and Murdoch newspaper’s design fail

Sydney Metro City + Southwest line is officially open

New Associate Director at OCULUS

Coronation Property’s $9B Moore Point river city proposal moves forward – finally

Tone On Tuesday 140: King Charles III - Architectural Advocate

Tone on Tuesday 135: Why so little design on the ABC?

Sydney’s Chinatown gates restoration to soon get under way

Powerhouse partners with David Gianotten

Sustainability Summit Panel #4: Building healthy homes for wellbeing

Tone on Tuesday: Kabul Architecture

$84bn lost to housing tax lurks? That would go a long way towards ending the housing crisis

Tone on Tuesday 138: A Different Approach to Culture

Tone On Tuesday 145: How to address the impacts of climate change

How your neighbour’s choice to go solar influences you

Episode 220: David Malvern from Sekisui House on the rise of prefab house designs in Australia

Greater Sydney's housing remains unaffordable on median full-time income until next decade