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Week 29/23: Radburn suburbs / Athletes’ village housing / Bruce Petty / Bookends: Two by Bruce / Signs off: Morrison + Palmer

being demolished or re-built as conventional subdivisions. I’ve started on some research for a Tone on Tuesday. For a start, why does every Australian Radburn suburb start with C? More seriously I want to read a research report by Henry...

News | 21/07/2023

Week 28/23: 50 years of the Sydney Opera House / Why Labor loathes Max to the max / 50 years of architectural work / Bookends: Sydney Opera House / Signs off: The point of manning

Thing week 28/2023 Tone Wheeler is an architect / the views expressed are his. Long columns are Tone on Tuesday, short shots every Friday in A&D Another Thing. You can contact TW at [email protected] ...

News | 14/07/2023

5-storey ANZAC digger mural overlooks dawn service in NSW

A five storey artistic rendition of the Anzac digger will be on show for the Engadine RSL’s Anzac day dawn service in NSW. A five storey artistic rendition of the Anzac digger will be on show for the Engadine RSL’s Anzac day dawn service in...

News | 24/04/2014

Fixing council planning - Part one: Strategic

: Tone on Tuesday 169: Fixing council planning - part one: strategic. Published Architecture & Design, 3 July (week 27) 2023 Tone Wheeler is an architect / the views expressed are his. Short pieces are published every Friday in A&D...

News | 04/07/2023

Week 27/23: Barbie’s in the pink / Celebrating emerging architects / Vale Michael Hopkins / Vale Hugh Saddler / Bookends: Energy / Signs off: No parks

), you can’t. Reference: A&D Another Thing week 27/2023 Tone Wheeler is an architect / the views expressed are his. Long columns are Tone on Tuesday, short shots every Friday in A&D Another Thing. You can contact TW at...

News | 07/07/2023

Blood, sweat and tears: The missing middle muddled process

another site, without any housing attached. Nothing’s changed. It’s hard to believe all this can happen in just one project. Time for the new planning minister to demand better. Reference: Tone on Tuesday 168: Blood sweat and tears...

News | 27/06/2023

Week 25/23: Fixing the housing crisis in 500 words / Was Corb a monster? / Holly Whyte the architect’s non-architect / Pony up / Bookends: E1027 / Signs off with satisfaction

you happiness. Last week we gave you the Truth, this week it’s Happiness (Dubai, 2018). Reference: A&D Another Thing week 25/2023 Tone Wheeler is an architect / the views expressed are his. Long columns are Tone on Tuesday, short...

News | 23/06/2023

Missing middle muddle

. Reference: Tone on Tuesday 166: Missing middle muddle: week 24/ 2023. Tone Wheeler is an architect / the views expressed are his. Short pieces are published every Friday in A&D Another Thing. Longer columns are Tone on Tuesday, published then...

News | 13/06/2023

Newcastle Memorial Walk by EJE Architecture opens for ANZAC Day 2015

Reservoir at Bar Beach, NSW the 450-metre raised walkway was opened on April 24 in time for the 100th Anniversary of the ANZAC landing at Gallipoli on ANZAC day 2015. The steel-framed bridge wraps along the cliffs of Newcastle’s beaches and, in...

News | 23/04/2015

Lest we forget: five projects that capture the spirit of Anzac Day

poppy, which was the first flower to grow in Northern France after the First World War ended. In the entrance courtyard, ‘Lest we forget’ is etched into one wall, facing a quote from Sir William Deane’s speech made on Anzac Day 1999 on...

News | 24/04/2015

Episode 55: Tone Wheeler on social housing and do we need a housing crash to fix all our social housing woes?

Tone Wheeler looks at where we went wrong with the design and build of our social housing stock. Wheeler discusses some novel ideas to get social housing back on track in Australia and what are some examples from overseas that we could emulate, as...

News | 14/09/2020

In praise of four storey walk up flats: The sustainable residential typology

of 4 storey walk up flats. All images by the author. Tone Wheeler is an architect / the views expressed are his. Short pieces are published every Friday in A&D Another Thing. Longer columns are Tone on Tuesday, published then. You can...

News | 06/06/2023

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

views expressed are his. Long columns are Tone on Tuesday, short shots every Friday in A&D Another Thing. You can contact TW at [email protected] ...

News | 02/06/2023

Week 17/23: Harry Howard’s house / An architravesty / The tepid EV policy / Welcome Cameron Bruhn / Bookends: Spaceship Earth

Let me go out on a limb here. The importance of ‘country’ to the indigenous owners was unknown to most invaders for the first 150 years. Harry Howard’s House This is a house in Castle Cove designed by Harry Howard (1930–2000),...

News | 21/04/2023

Searching for the most sustainable residential typology

the most sustainable residential typology. Tone Wheeler is an architect / the views expressed are his. Long columns are Tone on Tuesday, short shots every Friday in A&D Another Thing. You can contact TW at [email protected] ...

News | 30/05/2023

Week 16/23: Homeless sells / Sydney’s cycling snafus / Westwood Ho / Mini revolution / Bookends: Thermal comfort

The Federal Government’s housing policy is the failure du jour. In a recent piece on public housing in the SMH, your correspondent called the HAFF (Housing Australia Future Fund), “a defective magic pudding with an inexperienced minister (Julie...

News | 14/04/2023

Low + Close idea 1: UDIOBF: Upside-Down, Inside-Out and Back-to-Front

A&D Another Thing. Longer columns are Tone on Tuesday, published then. You can contact TW at [email protected] ...

News | 23/05/2023

tone on tuesday anzac daze

Week 29/23: Radburn suburbs / Athletes’ village housing / Bruce Petty / Bookends: Two by Bruce / Signs off: Morrison + Palmer

Ternary two

Ideas for better council approval processes

Tone Wheeler: On Social Housing Part 1

Week 28/23: 50 years of the Sydney Opera House / Why Labor loathes Max to the max / 50 years of architectural work / Bookends: Sydney Opera House / Signs off: The point of manning

5-storey ANZAC digger mural overlooks dawn service in NSW

Fixing council planning - Part one: Strategic

Week 27/23: Barbie’s in the pink / Celebrating emerging architects / Vale Michael Hopkins / Vale Hugh Saddler / Bookends: Energy / Signs off: No parks

Blood, sweat and tears: The missing middle muddled process

Week 25/23: Fixing the housing crisis in 500 words / Was Corb a monster? / Holly Whyte the architect’s non-architect / Pony up / Bookends: E1027 / Signs off with satisfaction

Missing middle muddle

Newcastle Memorial Walk by EJE Architecture opens for ANZAC Day 2015

Lest we forget: five projects that capture the spirit of Anzac Day

Episode 55: Tone Wheeler on social housing and do we need a housing crash to fix all our social housing woes?

In praise of four storey walk up flats: The sustainable residential typology

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 17/23: Harry Howard’s house / An architravesty / The tepid EV policy / Welcome Cameron Bruhn / Bookends: Spaceship Earth

Searching for the most sustainable residential typology

Week 16/23: Homeless sells / Sydney’s cycling snafus / Westwood Ho / Mini revolution / Bookends: Thermal comfort

Low + Close idea 1: UDIOBF: Upside-Down, Inside-Out and Back-to-Front