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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

Design notes for week 40/2023 from Tone on Tuesday

previous event at Bundanon was meant to be shorthand for they invented and ran it. Ignore my clumsy words –check it out here. Tone Wheeler is an architect / the views expressed are his. These Design Notes are Tone on Tuesday #182. Past Tone...

News | 03/10/2023

Design notes for week 39/2023 from Tone on Tuesday

. These Design Notes are Tone on Tuesday #181. 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 | 26/09/2023

Design notes for this week from Tone on Tuesday

/ the views expressed are his. These Design Notes are Tone on Tuesday #180. 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 | 19/09/2023

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 Wheeler featuring on Ecogradia

discussion is here, and look out for some related outtakes next week. Tone Wheeler’s A&D articles are Tone on Tuesday and Design Notes, you can contact Tone at [email protected] ...

News | 14/06/2024

Tone on Tuesday: On Ventilation

different apartments are as a typology. Apartments are not a ‘stack of houses’. They are a completely different animal, which cannot be fed on an old diet. Tone Wheeler is principal architect at Environa Studio, Adjunct Professor at UNSW and...

News | 28/07/2020

Tone on Tuesday: On Christo

cloth that wrapped buildings or danced through the environment. This is not an obituary; there are excellent ones from the BBC and the New York Times. Rather, this is a note about Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s first major wrapping project, on the...

News | 02/06/2020

Tone on Tuesday: Kabul Architecture

Fifty years ago, many young Australians wanted to get to swinging London, and there were two main ways to get there: on the new Boeing 747 Jumbo in 24 hours; or take six months to go overland on what became known as the ‘hippy trail’. And the...

News | 24/08/2021

Tone on Tuesday: On Nimes

wearing an elegantly tailored T-shirt, in fuchsia pink or iridescent blue, with an embroidered crocodile on their breast, you might gently remind them that they’re wearing a symbol of Christian martyrdom from Roman times. Tone Wheeler is principal...

News | 17/03/2020

Tone on Tuesday: Olympic Objects

rainforest destruction. Prominent objects in the Olympics were designed from recycled materials: the torch (and the uniforms the bearers wore), the medals and the podiums that they were awarded on; recycled polyester in some basketball, skateboarding and...

News | 10/08/2021

Tone on Tuesday 154: Index to the 150 articles

In the last three years, I have written 150 articles for Architecture and Design as ‘Tone on Tuesday’, covering all aspects of design, in popularising difficult ideas, and particularly in the relationship between design and politics, social housing...

News | 20/12/2022

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

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

Tone on Tuesday: On autonomy

How 1960s environmentalism gave rise to sustainability was canvassed in last week's Tone on Tuesday. Some asked what came next. 1970s hippy technology was one of the oxymoronic directions. How 1960s environmentalism gave rise to sustainability...

News | 26/11/2019

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

Tone on Tuesday: Good Goods

good design. But I'm not hopeful that those changes will happen any time soon. Rather, I think we'll continue on to be a nation whose consumer goods are cheap, cheerful, and crappy. Tone Wheeler is principal architect at Environa Studio...

News | 08/06/2021

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 153: The New Planet of the APEs – Designing Sustainability

. Unlike Europe or Scandinavia, where they are held in high regard by the general public, and politicians in particular, here they are derided, even despised. One trivial issue can illustrate: Switzerland has Le Corbusier on a banknote; Finland has Alvar...

News | 13/12/2022

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