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Falling planter boxes, flammable cladding escalate safety concerns at Sydney’s iconic One Central Park

by French architect Jean Nouvel, the two towers that comprise One Central Park stand out on Sydney’s skyline for their impressive vertical gardens that cover at least half of the buildings’ facade. Designed in collaboration with French...

News | 22/10/2024

Tone on Tuesday: On Quarantine Facilities

wide eaves and plenty of outdoor space. The ‘ne plus ultra’ is on North Head in Sydney, first built in 1832 for quarantining a cholera outbreak that lasted until 1851. It expanded with a series of buildings of different qualities - first...

News | 11/05/2021

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

Tone on Tuesday: On Nouns + Verbs

us a lot about how we should think of designing dwellings. The late Col James, as senior lecturer at Sydney University, was chair and coordinator of the I.B. Fell Housing Research Unit, critically looking at housing policy. The message on his...

News | 04/05/2021

Mirvac unveils exclusive residences in Sydney’s iconic Harbourside

own a sophisticated and timeless home of uncompromised luxury, positioned enviably on the Sydney Harbour foreshore, says Mirvac’s CEO of development, Stuart Penklis. “Harbourside Residences is the pinnacle of Darling Harbour’s $15...

News | 21/10/2024

Tone on Tuesday 122: Design and the Federal Election

well as the usual national causes of health, education, defense, aid and so on. Australia? Tax/GDP of 27.67%; the Morrison Government capped the federal part at 23.9%. Hence the continual ugly arguments about cutting services instead of improving...

News | 10/05/2022

Sydney ranked most sustainable city in the country, 10th worlwide

cities make tourism and events more sustainable. It tracks efforts in environmental care, social progress, working with suppliers and managing destinations. City of Sydney partnered with Destination NSW and Business Events Sydney on the submission for...

News | 01/11/2024

Tone on Tuesday: On Marr Grounds

plan is two squares, laid on the diagonal, 3 levels tall. It’s all Khan-like geometry, without any relation whatsoever to site, landscape, views or climate. Melbourne cubic urbanity meets laconic, luscious Sydney Harbour. Pere was obsessed with...

News | 13/04/2021

Devils in the detail: an economist argues the case for a Tasmanian AFL team – and new stadium

The Australian Football League’s announcement of a Tasmanian football club – likely to be called the Tassie Devils – is now a formality, after the federal goverment’s pledge of A$240 million to a new stadium and precinct in Hobart. Tim Harcourt...

News | 03/05/2023

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

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

gentry’) and imported ‘corrugated iron’ replaced timber shingles. The solid Australian home was on its way, with an Animal Farm-like cry - ‘brick is good, all else is bad’. Solid brick In the 19th century the bricks got bigger...

News | 12/07/2022

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

Tone on Tuesday 117: Adaptation and regional regeneration

It's time to admit defeat in the war against climate change. The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has just released the world’s most up-to-date and accurate document about how to stop climate change, in three volumes. “Tom Uren...

News | 05/04/2022

The pole-frame bush house by Graeme Gunn for David Yencken

. design-i #4, 6 Nov 2024. Researched and written by Tone Wheeler, architect / Adjunct Prof UNSW / President AAA. The views expressed are his, as are the images. design-i is a new column on design ideas that replaces Tone on Tuesday. Old ToT columns can be...

News | 06/11/2024

Tone on Tuesday: On Klopper’s Fremantle

In a seminal essay in 1983, Frampton proposed that ‘critical regionalism’ should adopt modern architecture critically for its universal progressive qualities, but at the same time value should be placed on the geographical context of the building...

News | 19/01/2021

tone on tuesday Sydney Football Stadium

Tone on Tuesday 127: The Minister for the Environment

Sydney sporting history echoes through Cox Architecture’s new stadium

Design notes for week 41/2023 from Tone on Tuesday

Inside SHAWOOD's new 'sustainable' homes in Sydney’s upper north shore

Tone on Tuesday: On droit de suite

Falling planter boxes, flammable cladding escalate safety concerns at Sydney’s iconic One Central Park

Tone on Tuesday: On Quarantine Facilities

Design notes for week 40/2023 from Tone on Tuesday

Tone on Tuesday: On Nouns + Verbs

Mirvac unveils exclusive residences in Sydney’s iconic Harbourside

Tone on Tuesday 122: Design and the Federal Election

Sydney ranked most sustainable city in the country, 10th worlwide

Tone on Tuesday: On Marr Grounds

Devils in the detail: an economist argues the case for a Tasmanian AFL team – and new stadium

Design notes for week 39/2023 from Tone on Tuesday

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

Design notes for this week from Tone on Tuesday

Tone on Tuesday 117: Adaptation and regional regeneration

The pole-frame bush house by Graeme Gunn for David Yencken

Tone on Tuesday: On Klopper’s Fremantle