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Tone on Tuesday: The democratic spatial narrative of the Australian War Memorial

architectural piece, with a list of locals who never came back. This is the biggie, the main one in our Canberra capital. War - originally intended for one war, now representing all wars. Memorial – commemoration through sacred space, it's not a...

News | 30/03/2021

Tone on Tuesday: Architecture schools Part 3 / Design studio curriculum

home; or may represent multiple users (such as an office or school); or be briefing on behalf of public users (a civic or sports building). In all cases the client is the starting point and essential reference for every building, and yet in design...

News | 14/07/2020

Tone on Tuesday: Olympic Objects

against an all-time great industrial design from Japan. After the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony (tradition) and the 1964 and 2020 buildings (modernism) this last article in the trilogy looks at objects. Again, the designs for the Olympics seem less...

News | 10/08/2021

Tone On Tuesday 152: The AIA changes its awards – better, but not good enough

architecture should be sustainable. We had a four-point plan to have our cake and eat it too: 1. The Sustainability Award must have cogent criteria, based on the RAIA Sustainable Policy. 2. All buildings submitted for awards must complete the...

News | 06/12/2022

NGV Architecture Commission 2024 winning design ‘Home Truth by Breathe’ now on display

Home Truth by Breathe, the winning design of the NGV Architecture Commission for 2024, is now open for viewing at NGV International in Melbourne. Home Truth by Breathe, the winning design of the NGV Architecture Commission for 2024, is now open for...

News | 15/11/2024

Tone on Tuesday: Opus Musivum

, analyzed aspects of urban design and planning, refined their buildings and interiors; all within their first semester. But more of that next week, when I reveal the plan, and the controversial curriculum that followed. For now, here’s the...

News | 29/06/2021

Tone on Tuesday 113: Ten Femmes and their Policies

Federal politics is broken. It's all about personalities and power; nothing about policies. The government doesn't have any. “The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on...

News | 08/03/2022

Tone on Tuesday 108: On Architect’s Moral Rights

There is much angst about ‘moral rights’ for architects at present. Several very heated public discussions are underway, but for me the current ‘heat but not light’ founders on a crucial point: architects are not artists and architecture is not art...

News | 01/02/2022

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 153: The New Planet of the APEs – Designing Sustainability

demolition of an award-winning hall and its replacement with a needless down-market museum at the Australian War Memorial. All whilst the invisible Archives goes begging for funds just to do its essential work. The disaster of the intervention by right...

News | 13/12/2022

Tone on Tuesday 120: Anzac daze & a changed role for the military

reflect on a possible future. “Peacekeeping is not a job for soldiers, but only soldiers can do it.” Dag Hammarskjold, second Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1953 - 1961 This column is an edited version of Tone on Tuesday...

News | 26/04/2022

Tone on Tuesday 107: On how COVID will change architecture

with major design disruption through the demand for fresher, and less mechanical, air. With a special edition on the key solution: better windows. Steve King will be riding shotgun the whole way. Tone Wheeler is principal architect at Environa Studio...

News | 25/01/2022

Renewables or resilience. Design for both/and

on the beat is reminding us that the climate war is lost, we’re past 1.5 degrees of warming, heading for 2.5oC, and we are not design-ready for the resilience now demanded. For all our protests, policies and projects, seeking to reduce fossil...

News | 20/11/2024

Tone On Tuesday 150: The most important book published in Australia this year

. I invite you to check out my “seemingly over the top claim” by putting it on the top of your summer reading list, (before heading off to an indigenous locality taken from Langton's book). Just read the bloody thing. Tone Wheeler...

News | 22/11/2022

Tone on Tuesday: Going for Bronze

, but ultimately mundane. We can do better. *No evidence of the existence of this article can be found on the WWW. Recollected from memory, so happy to receive a copy for corrections / posterity. Tone Wheeler is principal architect at Environa...

News | 03/08/2021

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Tone on Tuesday: NatHERS – Part 2

Tone on Tuesday: On Ventilation

More affordable homes on track for delivery in NSW

Tone On Tuesday 146: The Federal Budget: Forget design, cities and housing

Tone on Tuesday: The Sydney Football Stadium

Tone on Tuesday: The democratic spatial narrative of the Australian War Memorial

Tone on Tuesday: Architecture schools Part 3 / Design studio curriculum

Tone on Tuesday: Olympic Objects

Tone On Tuesday 152: The AIA changes its awards – better, but not good enough

NGV Architecture Commission 2024 winning design ‘Home Truth by Breathe’ now on display

Tone on Tuesday: Opus Musivum

Tone on Tuesday 113: Ten Femmes and their Policies

Tone on Tuesday 108: On Architect’s Moral Rights

Tone Wheeler featuring on Ecogradia

Tone On Tuesday 153: The New Planet of the APEs – Designing Sustainability

Tone on Tuesday 120: Anzac daze & a changed role for the military

Tone on Tuesday 107: On how COVID will change architecture

Renewables or resilience. Design for both/and

Tone On Tuesday 150: The most important book published in Australia this year

Tone on Tuesday: Going for Bronze