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Tone on Tuesday 130: AV Jennings and Project Homes

‘speculative building’ (enshrined in the vernacular as a ‘speccie’). Jennings’ initiative was to change the process: he sold a fixed price house plan to customers &lsquo;on contract’ which enabled banks to be comfortable giving a...

News | 05/07/2022

Bridge Housing’s DA for new Redfern development proposes 355 social and affordable homes

Bridge Housing has partnered with Homes NSW on a new urban renewal project that envisions the delivery of around 355 new social, affordable and disability support homes in the heart of Sydney. Bridge Housing has partnered with Homes NSW on a new...

News | 15/11/2024

Tone on Tuesday 129: Australia’s Project Home Part 1

Australia is the most suburbanised OECD country; and the detached house on its own plot, our favourite, is its ne plus ultra. Starting in the late 1890s, it has endured almost unchanged until today: the designs, planning, forms, construction, and...

News | 28/06/2022

Tone on Tuesday 127: The Minister for the Environment

clearing and so on. However, an ‘environment portfolio’ wasn't always so important. Indeed, it has only existed for 50 years when ‘environment’ was added to the ministry of ‘Arts and Aboriginal Affairs’ in the dying...

News | 14/06/2022

Tone on Tuesday 122: Design and the Federal Election

design, particularly housing. Political parties’ policies on housing are poorly designed The states are so poorly funded that they are walking away from social housing; in NSW, the LNP is selling it, and not replacing it. Thus, the spotlight...

News | 10/05/2022

Tone on Tuesday: On Klopper’s Fremantle

areas held aloft with steel ties or brick buttresses. His early work in Subiaco was followed by almost thirty years in Fremantle, putting his finances on the line in building small housing projects, such as the early Raphael Street townhouses, and...

News | 19/01/2021

Tone on Tuesday: On being objectionable

housing ideas or notions. 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 not held or endorsed...

News | 08/12/2020

Tone on Tuesday: On Outdoor Rooms

posthumous, novel The Third Policeman. It is a murderer’s first-person account of his encounters with a strange two-dimensional police station and ruminations on many things such as time and death, written in a style not unlike Spike Milligan’s...

News | 24/11/2020

Tone on Tuesday 131: Our love affair with brick and tile

project home builders learnt how to use ‘brick veneer’ to meet all three desires, but their legacy is having created 50% of our housing stock as under-insulated, rotting boxes. Here’s how. The early history - not brick-and-tile Our...

News | 12/07/2022

Tone on Tuesday 113: Ten Femmes and their Policies

policy is a design act. I’ve argued for better policies on design issues such as social housing, and better housing through taxation. The latter, last week’s column, elicited the greatest number of comments, mostly channelling Darryl Kerrigan...

News | 08/03/2022

Tone on Tuesday 125: Homes: One Policy to Rule Them All

on the occupants, rather than &lsquo;housing’ which speaks to a broad corporate policy. ‘Homes’ is a policy that respects the diversity of us, with no uniform solution, which we can see in its many different working parts which are...

News | 31/05/2022

Brick inlay facade connects Crows Nest Station to place and community

Station’s modulated brickwork facade of Namoi Valley Coolibah Cream bricks grounds the building within the local community. The brick’s earthy richness connects the station to place, while its pale colour beautifully takes on the shadows and tone when...

Robertson Facade Systems

Design notes for week 45/2023 from Tone on Tuesday

are the lessons from LA that are not immediately apparent? Tone Wheeler is an architect /adjunct prof UNSW / president AAA The views expressed are his. These Design Notes are Tone on Tuesday #187. Past Tone on Tuesday columns can be found...

News | 07/11/2023

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

Tone on Tuesday 99: Sustainable Suburbia

the CBD ever since. I hated my early years in suburbia, I felt circumscribed by its ordinariness. My studies in architecture only reinforced this disdain, pouring out essays on poor design from houses to planning. My working life in...

News | 19/10/2021

Tone on Tuesday: On Passive Solar Heating

-heresy. Free winter heating from the sun is a fundamental tenet of solar houses, a vitally strong design movement in Australia since the 1960’s. There were plenty of books on “Solar Houses” about 50 years ago. But it's a classic example of...

News | 04/08/2020

Design notes for week 43/2023 from Tone on Tuesday

presentation at the current exhibition at the Museum of Sydney. Next week What to do with building bad? Tone Wheeler is an architect /adjunct prof UNSW / president AAA The views expressed are his. These Design Notes are Tone on Tuesday #185...

News | 24/10/2023

Earthwool insulation meets thermal performance goals of 8-star energy home

The use of Earthwool® insulation allowed Ecoliv Buildings to build a home that didn’t rely on thermal mass and high embodied energy products to achieve an 8 star thermal rating. Challenge The Eco Balanced 1 is a finely tuned, yet modest design...

Knauf Insulation

Tone on Tuesday: On droit de suite

staff, then they should credit the project’s creators as well. The principle is important. It’s not personal, even if you think it is in this case. Perhaps you agree with my editor who refers to this column, not as Tone on Tuesday but as...

News | 10/03/2020

Tone on Tuesday: On Grand Designs

on materials, and to a lesser extent the construction techniques, as a substitution for design ideas. McCloud seems obsessed with materials; his ‘live shows’ in the UK present innovation in materials as the solution to the housing crisis...

News | 18/02/2020

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