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Tone on Tuesday: Opus Musivum

story. OPUS MUSIVUM At dawn, travelling northward, Axel and Ingrid come upon the southern gate of Opus Musivum, a city that provides a different path for each on its planned streets. Within its encompassing four-square city walls the plan adopts an...

News | 29/06/2021

Aluminium brick tiles in internal laneways reference red brick podium at new ICON Richmond HQ

. Aluminium brick tiles were selected for the internal laneways, referencing the red brick podium of the building. “The aluminium brick tiles had a really nice tone, which was soft on the eye, and they had a handmade quality about them. It felt like...

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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

Tone On Tuesday 148: If public housing is the question, community housing is the answer

, and a piece in the NSW AIA Newsletter actually praised it, albeit with similar motherhood statements. “Make housing a verb.” The message from Col James on the answer phone of the I.B. Fell Housing Research Unit at Sydney University. The...

News | 08/11/2022

Jan van Schaik reflects on recent project WAMA, art and life

& Design’s Digital Editor Clémence Carayol to talk about the genesis of WAMA and the impacts of good architecture on the environment, and vice versa. It’s a family affair. MvS Architects Director Jan van Schaik is a third generation architect, and...

News | 10/10/2024

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

Tone On Tuesday 147: The Failure of Housing in the Federal Budget

metrics or viable targets; announcement without action. Morrison on steroids. Before we pick apart its idiocies and non sequiturs, we need an introduction to housing in Australia. Housing in Australia We have two kinds of housing by occupant...

News | 01/11/2022

Pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with a design-led, solutions-driven approach

counts – because great design lives in the nuances that differentiate the good from the truly remarkable. At MBS Architectural, we understand that architects are not just looking for products; they're seeking partners who can bring their...

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Tone on Tuesday 128: Designing Nuclear Power

competitors are coal and gas power). I’m happy to oblige him with a design. "Nuclear power, apart from nuclear war, is the greatest medical threat posed to life on this planet." Helen Caldicott, Australia’s pre-eminent campaigner against...

News | 21/06/2022

Tone On Tuesday 146: The Federal Budget: Forget design, cities and housing

measured by the ‘Tax to GDP ratio’, or Tax/GDP, in other words how much of the wealth created each year in the economy is for use by the government, on the common or public good. Our Tax/GDP of 27% is very low in comparison to all other OECD...

News | 25/10/2022

Could the Grenfell tower fire happen in Australia?

design-i, a new series on design ideas on Wednesdays, that replaces the old Tone on Tuesday, The(A&D newsletter no longer coming out on Tuesday it was time has come to retire the title). Nevertheless, all those old columns can be found here and you...

News | 16/10/2024

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

Tone on Tuesday: On sustainability

answers than angels on the head of a pin. But for me there is one clear originator, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth in West Sussex. Who? Let me explain. She (and for reasons that should become really obvious, a she) was Barbara Ward. An economist with a...

News | 19/11/2019

Australia’s Landscape Architecture Awards Celebrate Leadership, Resilience and Connection to Country

Awards Jury, consisting of prominent landscape architects and esteemed built environment academics. AILA National Awards Jury Chair Andrew Thomas reflected on the work recognised in this year’s program, and emphasised the key role of landscape...

News | 27/10/2024

Eliminating the risk of air voids in concrete walls

, offering architects practical insights and best practices for mitigation in both small and large-scale projects. Repairing voids after construction is labour-intensive, costly, and disruptive to project timelines, making preventative...

Resource | 08/11/2024

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Tone on Tuesday: Opus Musivum

Aluminium brick tiles in internal laneways reference red brick podium at new ICON Richmond HQ

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Tone on Tuesday: Good Goods

Tone on Tuesday: On Nimes

Colonialism to Country: Truth telling through architecture

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

Tone On Tuesday 148: If public housing is the question, community housing is the answer

Jan van Schaik reflects on recent project WAMA, art and life

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

Tone On Tuesday 147: The Failure of Housing in the Federal Budget

Pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with a design-led, solutions-driven approach

Tone on Tuesday 128: Designing Nuclear Power

Tone On Tuesday 146: The Federal Budget: Forget design, cities and housing

Could the Grenfell tower fire happen in Australia?

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

Tone on Tuesday: On sustainability

Australia’s Landscape Architecture Awards Celebrate Leadership, Resilience and Connection to Country

Eliminating the risk of air voids in concrete walls