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Why building more big dams is a costly gamble for our future water security and the environment

Climate change and biodiversity loss are mounting threats to Australia’s water security. So we often hear calls for more dams. But is that the answer? John Kandulu, Flinders University; Richard Kingsford, UNSW Sydney, and Sarah Ann Wheeler...

News | 04/11/2024

Episode 193: How housing in Australia's cities breeds and perpetuates economic and social inequality

This is the second part of our 2-part series with Tone Wheeler about why our cities and housing are breeding inequality. This is the second part of our 2-part series with Tone Wheeler about why our cities and housing are breeding inequality. An...

News | 20/02/2024

Episode 97: My sustainability journey by 2021 Sustainability Awards Lifetime Achievement winner, Tone Wheeler

Tone Wheeler is a lot of things: architect, lecturer, builder, author, entrepreneur, mentor, government advisor, critic and columnist. Tone Wheeler is a lot of things: architect, lecturer, builder, author, entrepreneur, mentor, government...

News | 07/12/2021

Feedback on Friday with Tone Wheeler

it.” More feedback next month. 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...

News | 09/07/2021

Sustainability Summit Panel #5: Can prefab/modular fix our affordable housing crisis?

reimagining of how we build and what we can achieve.” Prefab has many upsides, according to Tone Wheeler, Principal at Environa Studio. “It’s quicker. Prefab speeds up construction time; whilst the house is being built in a factory, the...

News | 27/09/2024

Discussing a circular future at Melbourne Design Week

A number of intriguing panel discussions coinciding with Melbourne Design Week will be held at Hanover House, which will hone in on transforming Melbourne into a sustainable, circular and transparent city. A number of intriguing panel discussions...

News | 17/04/2024

The government is reviewing negative gearing and capital gains tax, but this won’t be enough to fix our housing shortage

confirmed this week the tax concessions were being reviewed. Meanwhile, the government is struggling to pass its Help to Buy housing assistance legislation through the Senate. The Help to Buy legislation is aimed at helping first home buyers on low and...

News | 26/09/2024

Tone Wheeler and Caroline Pidcock win the AIA Leadership in Sustainability Prize

Architecture & Design columnist Tone Wheeler and former Sustainability Awards judge Caroline Pidcock have been awarded the 2021 Leadership in Sustainability Prize from the Australian Institute of Architects (AIA), as founders of the movement in...

News | 06/05/2021

The Big Calm or the big unrest: Are workers satisfied with the spaces their workplace provide?

Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, the UK and the US. • Hybrid is here to stay: The era of five days a week in an office is over. • Offices are over-optimised on open plan: while open plan spaces make up a large portion of layouts, they are...

News | 24/09/2024

2013 NSW Architecture Award presentations open this weekend

& Entry (Commercial and Interior Architecture) LAVA (Laboratory for Visionary Architecture) for Martian Embassy (Interior Architecture) SJB Interiors for Harbour Rocks Hotel (Interior Architecture) Tone Wheeler (Environa Studio) for The...

News | 19/03/2013

Episode 55: Tone Wheeler on social housing and do we need a housing crash to fix all our social housing woes?

In this episode of Talking Architecture & Design, architect and lecturer Tone Wheeler looks at where we went wrong with the design and build of our social housing stock. In this episode of Talking Architecture & Design, architect and lecturer...

News | 14/09/2020

Design notes for week 36 of 2023

. Signs off Superfluous naming a suburban street, Suburb Street. This tautology is in Queenstown, South Island, NZ. Tone Wheeler is an architect / the views expressed are his. Past Tone on Tuesday columns can be found here Past A&D...

News | 05/09/2023

Tone on Tuesday: NatHERS – Part 2

build each year. Tone Wheeler is principal architect at Environa Studio, Adjunct Professor at UNSW and is President of the Australian Architecture Association. Please note that I do not read Instagram, Facebook, Twitter or Linked In. My sanity is...

News | 25/08/2020

COX-led Macquarie Point stadium designs informed by local heritage

Concept designs for what could be “the largest timber roofed stadium in the world” were unveiled last week by the Tasmanian Government. Concept designs for what could be “the largest timber roofed stadium in the world” were unveiled last...

News | 15/07/2024

Episode 38: Architect and lecturer Tone Wheeler dispels the myths over the reasons for our bushfire crisis

Architect and lecturer Tone Wheeler together with with A+D deputy editor Sarah Buckley dispel the myths over the range of complex yet logical reasons for our bushfire crisis and delve deep into what could and should be done to ensure that we never...

News | 28/01/2020

Episode 35: Tone Wheeler talks about designers, ecology, education, Bali and how Australia became a hotbed of sustainable design

Architect and academic Tone Wheeler takes listeners on a historical journey through both time and space to explain how Australian designers taught themselves all about sustainable design, more often than not, the hard way. Architect and academic...

News | 22/11/2019

tone wheeler Week /23

Why building more big dams is a costly gamble for our future water security and the environment

A tribute to Graeme Gunn, our best suburban housing advocate

Australia leads in flexible work practices, global research reveals

Just how bad are Albanese’s housing problems?

Could the Grenfell tower fire happen in Australia?

Episode 193: How housing in Australia's cities breeds and perpetuates economic and social inequality

Episode 97: My sustainability journey by 2021 Sustainability Awards Lifetime Achievement winner, Tone Wheeler

Feedback on Friday with Tone Wheeler

Sustainability Summit Panel #5: Can prefab/modular fix our affordable housing crisis?

Discussing a circular future at Melbourne Design Week

The government is reviewing negative gearing and capital gains tax, but this won’t be enough to fix our housing shortage

Tone Wheeler and Caroline Pidcock win the AIA Leadership in Sustainability Prize

The Big Calm or the big unrest: Are workers satisfied with the spaces their workplace provide?

2013 NSW Architecture Award presentations open this weekend

Episode 55: Tone Wheeler on social housing and do we need a housing crash to fix all our social housing woes?

Design notes for week 36 of 2023

Tone on Tuesday: NatHERS – Part 2

COX-led Macquarie Point stadium designs informed by local heritage

Episode 38: Architect and lecturer Tone Wheeler dispels the myths over the reasons for our bushfire crisis

Episode 35: Tone Wheeler talks about designers, ecology, education, Bali and how Australia became a hotbed of sustainable design