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Tone on Tuesday 209: Homes won’t solve homelessness.

middle. Finding out what’s missing in the muddle is the subject of next week's Tone on Tuesday. This is Tone on Tuesday #209, 21 May 2024, written by Tone Wheeler, architect / Adjunct Prof UNSW / President AAA. The views expressed are his...

News | 21/05/2024

Tone Wheeler asks: Is it prefab or pre-drab – the dilemma of factory-made houses

widely dispersed and relatively small by world standards the Australian house building industry is, this seems a far more logical direction to go for prefab. This is Tone on Tuesday #202, 2 April 2024. Tone Wheeler is an architect /Adjunct Prof UNSW...

News | 02/04/2024

Tone On Tuesday 142: Jack Greenland and the Foundations of Architectural Science

, on design ideas in houses for four different climates (hot humid, hot arid, temperate, and cold) to illustrate the physical principles in the book. These were line drawings with details and notes in the margins. In the book’s...

News | 27/09/2022

Tone on Tuesday: History in 100 objects

is on 1001 songs. The descriptions in The History of Australia in 100 Objects are longer, windier and more prosaic. In contrast to O'Toole’s deft, exquisite prose Creswell’s writing seems more mediocre word-processing, intended for a...

News | 17/08/2021

Tone on Tuesday: Design Matters USA 2

fashion design matters to parse in the future. 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 the author and are...

News | 09/02/2021

Tone on Tuesday 104: The state of play in architecture and politics in 2021

Architecture also won the David Oppenheim Award for Sustainable Architecture. The Monash Woodside Building for Technology and Design by Grimshaw ticks all the boxes, a clever interior that places huge emphasis on the wellbeing and comfort of the...

News | 14/12/2021

Tone on Tuesday 210: Housing in the Missing Middle - 6 bedrooms, 6 packs, 6 storeys

. Architecture by environa studio. Next week: Sustainability in apartments is the subject of next week's Tone on Tuesday. This is Tone on Tuesday #210, 28 May 2024, written by Tone Wheeler, architect / Adjunct Prof UNSW / President AAA. The views...

News | 28/05/2024

Tone Wheeler on architectural science and why form must follow forces

“Form follows forces,” reiterates architect, educator, and Environa Studio founder Tone Wheeler, as he reminisces about the evolution of ‘architectural science’ and the people who made it happen. “Form follows forces,” reiterates...

News | 21/12/2022

Tone on Tuesday: Seeking sustainable suburbia 1: The power of solar

Density. This is Tone on Tuesday #207, 7 May 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 [email protected].

News | 07/05/2024

Tone on Tuesday 25: On design for COVID-19 – Part 2

for that particular condition. Yes, we are a nation of consumers and yes, we have been a greedy, selfish bunch, but there is light at the end of the tunnel. If we concentrated on the quality of design and the quality of good making, we could find...

News | 31/03/2020

Tone On Tuesday 141: King Charles III – Property Developer

. Charles’s widely unread book …. is worth forcing yourself to plod through. It sets out an obscurantist vision that is so reactionary it opposes all aspects of modernity from the scientific revolution on. Hence his fondness for the...

News | 20/09/2022

Tone on Tuesday 137: Carrots, Sticks and Bigger Sticks

the commissioner was welcome in some parts, it has also seen the consultant design industry become much more stressful, hardly laying a glove on the developers. Was the outcome worth the pain. The jury is out. Tone Wheeler is an architect / the...

News | 23/08/2022

Design Notes: Ideas, issues and idiocies from the last fortnight

solar panel on top of the machine taking the coin and card. Wrong way at the Wright Lane Carpark in Newcastle (on Hunter). Design Notes 31 is researched and written by Tone Wheeler, architect /Adjunct Prof UNSW /President AAA. The views expressed are...

News | 05/07/2024

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

Design Notes: Ideas, issues and idiocies from the last fortnight

quantity of recycling has not been as successful as the universal symbol would suggest. Design Notes is researched and written by Tone Wheeler, architect /Adjunct Prof UNSW /President AAA. The views expressed are his. Past Design Notes and Tone on...

News | 28/06/2024

Tone on Tuesday 100: Technologies not Tax

and replying only to comments addressed to [email protected]. Note: this is the 100th, and last, Tone on Tuesday. What was a jokey name for two weeks has outlasted its welcome every week for two years. The column will return in the near future...

News | 26/10/2021

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Tone on Tuesday 209: Homes won’t solve homelessness.

Tone Wheeler asks: Is it prefab or pre-drab – the dilemma of factory-made houses

Tone on Tuesday: Electrification - cute electrics or electrocution?

Tone on Tuesday 225: The housing crisis explained in six diagrams.

Feedback on Friday with Tone Wheeler

Tone on Tuesday 215: Immigration is not a housing issue

Tone On Tuesday 142: Jack Greenland and the Foundations of Architectural Science

Tone on Tuesday: History in 100 objects

Tone on Tuesday: Design Matters USA 2

Tone on Tuesday 104: The state of play in architecture and politics in 2021

Tone on Tuesday 210: Housing in the Missing Middle - 6 bedrooms, 6 packs, 6 storeys

Tone Wheeler on architectural science and why form must follow forces

Tone on Tuesday: Seeking sustainable suburbia 1: The power of solar

Tone on Tuesday 25: On design for COVID-19 – Part 2

Tone On Tuesday 141: King Charles III – Property Developer

Tone on Tuesday 137: Carrots, Sticks and Bigger Sticks

Design Notes: Ideas, issues and idiocies from the last fortnight

Tone on Tuesday: Good Goods

Design Notes: Ideas, issues and idiocies from the last fortnight

Tone on Tuesday 100: Technologies not Tax