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Tone on Tuesday: Homeless wash-up

“All a homeless person needs, is a home.” One of the few good things to come out of a year of COVID were attempts by authorities to do just that: provide a home for people living on the street. “All a homeless person needs, is a...

News | 16/03/2021

Tone on Tuesday: Design for Aged Care

, and to retrofit existing facilities, to improve their re-direction back towards being a nursing home, with the emphasis on the word home. Tone Wheeler is principal architect at Environa Studio, Adjunct Professor at UNSW and is President of the...

News | 09/03/2021

Tone on Tuesday 103: The four stages of sustainability and my part in its serial failures

was so. Enjoy the podcast as I unfurl my lifetime struggle, mostly failure, with sustainability. It’s been a long, strange trip from hippy, to hip, to hip replacement. Some of this material was first published in Tone on Tuesday 49 and...

News | 07/12/2021

Tone on Tuesday: On the seminal book ‘Homes in the Sun’

Many know that my favourite book on Australian architecture is Walter Bunning’s Homes in the Sun, which I’ve referenced in talks and columns (see the Third Wave and the Future after Covid). So why, some correspondents asked, wasn’t it in my list of...

News | 27/04/2021

Tone on Tuesday 102: In memory of Philip Abram, architect and coalescer of small practices

After a short hibernation, there can be no better way for Tone on Tuesday to return than to commemorate the life and work of architect Philip Abram. Like so many in a small practice his work was exemplary but largely unknown. But like so few he...

News | 30/11/2021

Tone on Tuesday: On Anzac Daze - A changed role for the military

Anzac Day is about to be celebrated with its usual pomp and populism. It behooves a column on design to ask just what is the purpose of having a military, how should we design our defence force, especially now? Whilst we respect the past, I want to...

News | 20/04/2021

Tone on Tuesday: Tri-Arc Troubles

devastation everywhere. I didn’t stay there at that time unfortunately – rather I was sleeping on the science bench in Nightcliff Highschool - but that’s another story for a future column. Tone Wheeler is principal architect at Environa...

News | 23/02/2021

Tone on Tuesday: Suburban housing – a history in 7 images

‘pattern-based mass-made’; pattern-based as the house design uses a standardised plan, or pattern, with minor variations; and ‘mass-made’ because they are built in volume production. Currently they are called project homes, based on a just a few...

News | 20/07/2021

Tone on Tuesday: Vale Dirk Bolt

You may never have heard of Dirk Bolt, but not only was he one of our best architects of the modern era, he went on to become one of the most significant worldwide proponents of sustainable urbanism. His story is exceptional and is worth telling...

News | 16/02/2021

Tone on Tuesday: The four lives of Derek Wrigley

Formidable designer Derek Wrigley, passed away last month, aged 97. You can find his obituary on the ArchitectureAU website and the DIA’s (Design Institute of Australia) website. I knew and worked with Derek for some years in Canberra and I think...

News | 13/07/2021

Tone on Tuesday: Design Matters USA 2

, do U” when she visits a children’s prison in Texas, although she claims it is reference to her hatred of liberal media. Ivanka’s fashion label of glamorous jewellery and ordinary day wear fails to capitalise on daddy’s fame and...

News | 09/02/2021

Tone on Tuesday: On Architecture Schools Part 4

Having been recently critical of the many shortcomings of teaching in architectural design studio, this, the last article of four, focuses on a positive design process. THE DESIGN PROCESS Having been recently critical of the many shortcomings of...

News | 21/07/2020

Tone on Tuesday: Design Matters USA

Memorial, built in honour of 16thUS president Abraham Lincoln, who led the nation through the American Civil War that claimed 620,000 lives. The Covid death toll is projected to climb closer to this figure in coming months (depending on the success of...

News | 01/02/2021

Renewables or resilience. Design for both/and

Wheeler, architect / Adjunct Prof UNSW / President AAA. The views expressed are his. design-i is a new column that replaces Tone on Tuesday. Old ToT columns can be found here, and you can still contact TW at [email protected].

News | 20/11/2024

Tone on Tuesday: On Architecture Schools – Part 1

reliance is placed on international students, with catastrophic issues when the COVID strikes. The attrition of women from the profession starts in Masters courses where the proportion of men over women subtlety increases at graduation. The population of...

News | 30/06/2020

Tone on Tuesday: On Social Housing Part 3 - Typologies

For the third in our series on social housing we are focussing on typologies, in 10 observations. For the third in our series on social housing we are focussing on typologies, in 10 observations. Big Plans, Small Plans These houses are...

News | 23/06/2020

Tone on Tuesday: On Social Housing Part 2

in that process goes wrong. If that apartment is put on the rental market, the owner might seek a return of around 5%, or $1,000/week (1000th of its purchase price). Given that housing should cost no more than one third of income it suggests the...

News | 16/06/2020

Tone on Tuesday: HVAC and hotel quarantine failures

on the ceiling, they can make a space cooler without the need for chilled air. But they are an expensive technology, rarely used, such that almost all buildings now use air conditioning. Air conditioning The basis of AC is a ‘heat...

News | 01/06/2021

Tone on Tuesday 27: On repairing Eames chairs

on the ground rather than the more dramatic original intention. I’ve visited on a number of occasions, even celebrating a birthday there, as it is now open to the public. But an earlier visit was not so well-mannered. A Kiwi mate of mine...

News | 14/04/2020

Tone on Tuesday: On the future of cities ‘post-COVIP’

Labor’s defeat. But in the next six years under the LNP, supposedly better financial managers, the debt grew even bigger, and faster, reaching $573bn in early 2020. The LNP had added $316bn, but only banged on about the deficit being ‘back...

News | 07/04/2020

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