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Tone on Tuesday 97: Housing Policies

, particularly those on low or welfare incomes, there is an extreme shortage of social housing. We urgently need policies to address these intertwined situations. The federal Parliamentary Library makes a linguistic divination between the stress for owners as...

News | 05/10/2021

Design notes for week 47/2023 from Tone on Tuesday

/ president AAA and has MC’d 5 Sustainability Summits so far. The views expressed are his. These Design Notes are Tone on Tuesday #189, week 47/2023. Past Tone on Tuesday columns can be found here Past A&D Another Thing columns...

News | 21/11/2023

Design notes for week 46/2023 from Tone on Tuesday

Tuesday #188, week 46/2023. Past Tone on Tuesday columns can be found here Past A&D Another Thing columns can be found here You can contact TW at [email protected] ...

News | 14/11/2023

Design notes for week 44/2023 from Tone on Tuesday

industry in Australia. Next week Rising to the housing planning challenge? Tone Wheeler is an architect /adjunct prof UNSW / president AAA The views expressed are his. These Design Notes are Tone on Tuesday #186. Past Tone on Tuesday...

News | 31/10/2023

Tone on Tuesday 98: State Social Housing Policies

percentage (NT 13.75% and ACT 7.4%), and proportionately high future budgets. The NT is intending to spend $1.1b (with a B) in the next 10 years on remote housing, and the ACT $100m (with an M) on 400 houses to add to its existing 12,076. Tasmania...

News | 12/10/2021

Design notes for week 42/2023 from Tone on Tuesday

centre the critical knowledge and diverse lived experience of First Nations people”. (website) Signs off The penetration of Maori in bilingual signage was discussed in an earlier Tone on Tuesday. Now that we want to remove some colonial...

News | 17/10/2023

Design notes for week 41/2023 from Tone on Tuesday

nation says it doesn’t want to listen to a proffered voice? Tone Wheeler is an architect / the views expressed are his. These Design Notes are Tone on Tuesday #183. Past Tone on Tuesday columns can be found here Past A&D Another...

News | 10/10/2023

Tone on Tuesday: Suburban housing – a history in 7 images

single construction activity, because we've got 150 years of bad pattern-based mass-made housing to improve. Thank heavens we have so many young architecture graduates. Tone Wheeler is principal architect at Environa Studio, Adjunct Professor at...

News | 20/07/2021

Tone on Tuesday: On Social Housing Part 3 - Typologies

For the third in our series on social housing we are focussing on typologies, in 10 observations. For the third in our series on social housing we are focussing on typologies, in 10 observations. Big Plans, Small Plans These houses are...

News | 23/06/2020

Tone on Tuesday: On Social Housing Part 2

in that process goes wrong. If that apartment is put on the rental market, the owner might seek a return of around 5%, or $1,000/week (1000th of its purchase price). Given that housing should cost no more than one third of income it suggests the...

News | 16/06/2020

Tone on Tuesday: Social housing at last

. And that’s the last word on social housing for a while. Tone Wheeler is principal architect at Environa Studio, Adjunct Professor at UNSW and is President of the Australian Architecture Association. The views expressed here are solely those of...

News | 20/10/2020

Design notes for this week from Tone on Tuesday

/ the views expressed are his. These Design Notes are Tone on Tuesday #179. Past Tone on Tuesday columns can be found here Past A&D Another Thing columns can be found here You can contact TW at [email protected] ...

News | 12/09/2023

Tone on Tuesday: On affordability

What do we mean by affordability, particularly affordable housing, and how could architects help? This year the Sydney Architecture Festival is focusing on affordability. Architects and affordability. My first reaction was to laugh out loud...

News | 05/11/2019

Tone on Tuesday: Social housing as the new pink batts

churches and not-for-profits, close to the local people, who know the housing stress, and how best to respond. Community groups, the local care-givers, must be the key clients, on behalf of the local in housing need, and must be the directors of the...

News | 13/10/2020

Tone on Tuesday asks: What’s up with Palm Beach?

doorstep. Next week: Design Notes. This is Tone on Tuesday #204, 16 April 2024, written by Tone Wheeler, architect /Adjunct Prof UNSW /President AAA. The views expressed are his. Past Tone on Tuesday columns can be found here. You can contact TW at...

News | 16/04/2024

Tone on Tuesday 132: The Project Home of Today

The detached home on its own titled site remains the most popular form of housing in Australia, not only by numbers (in Sydney and Melbourne where apartments flourish, 50% of all dwellings are still freestanding homes), but in the psyche...

News | 19/07/2022

Tone on Tuesday: Kabul Architecture

war led by the USA, arming the guerilla forces known as the Mujahideen, on the basis that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Kabul suffers the urban indignity of the dead hand of Russian communist housing blocks. The...

News | 24/08/2021

Design notes for week 9/2024 from Tone on Tuesday

a bright yellow pen to add an S to the sign between them. Next week Court in the Act. Tone Wheeler is an architect /adjunct prof UNSW / president AAA. The views expressed are his. These Design Notes are Tone on Tuesday #197, week 9...

News | 27/02/2024

Tone on Tuesday: On Prefab

or endorsed by A+D. Disclosure: Tone Wheeler is the principal architect at Environa design mentioned above, and consulted for a brief time to Lend lease on CLT.

News | 03/12/2019

Episode 210: Tone Wheeler on why immigration is not the reason behind our a housing problems

Immigration is a driver of GDP and a solution to Australia’s declining birth rate, but as housing pressures mount, polls showing strong support for reduced intake could force the government into a debate on population growth," says Mike Secombe...

News | 25/06/2024

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