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Tone on Tuesday: On Marr Grounds Reprise

Architecture & Design magazine. Let’s cut this short right now, and you can turn to Sammy’s riveting account. And BTW, Stuart Whitelaw is now a guru of Permaculture on the NSW south coast. And more on that soon. Tone Wheeler is principal...

News | 25/05/2021

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

standardised design. Project home construction The essence of a PH is to build with the minimum amount of material and particularly labour. Designs are based on standardised dimensions to match framing and plasterboard; using factory-made windows, doors...

News | 28/06/2022

Tone on Tuesday: On Marr Grounds

as a basis for his teaching (and for his own artworks) most frequently inviting students to construct pieces of art from found objects, often on trips to the beach. Marr actively supported Peter Johnson's further hirings, including two legendary...

News | 13/04/2021

Tone on Tuesday: On architects sidelined

original design dies. Another process for change can be where the Certifier (who has control of approving the CC) can accept many changes. The CC can vary substantially from the development approval, although recent changes to the Building Professionals...

News | 19/05/2020

Tone on Tuesday: On Project Managers

(PM) was born. An arriviste in the design process, the times suited PM’s given a push for more efficiency and accountability generally in the early eighties. Given that cost control was at the heart of this change, PM’s came not from...

News | 05/05/2020

Tone on Tuesday: The Tokyo Olympics and Tales from Two Temples

design (think Mambo, Victas and Hills hoists in Sydney 2000). Last Friday’s opening ceremony in Tokyo will be remembered principally for the ‘drone show’ lights, but I was beguiled by something far simpler. On a series of nine...

News | 27/07/2021

Tone on Tuesday 117: Adaptation and regional regeneration

… never ceased to be concerned about rapid population growth resulting in growing inequalities as well as impacting on the environment, … (in) his Department for Urban and Regional Development (DURD) … Tom was always most concerned about the...

News | 05/04/2022

Tone on Tuesday: On architecture in the USA

. 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 by A+D, the AAA or UNSW...

News | 10/11/2020

Tone on Tuesday: On Outdoor Rooms

to the NSW Corps after their posting to India, from where these two key words enter our language: veranda comes from ‘baranda’, the Portuguese settler’s word for a balustrade needed on an elevated deck; and a ‘bungalow’...

News | 24/11/2020

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

, better shading, more PVs are 100% tax deductible (perhaps they would be the only deductions allowed on investment homes). ‘Homes’ is indeed one policy to rule them all. Tone Wheeler is principal architect at Environa Studio, Adjunct...

News | 31/05/2022

Tone on Tuesday: On crit culture

unhelpful in the learning process. The heat is so intense that the student is just trying to survive, and learning is lost. A buddy system where a friend takes notes or films the crit for later review can avoid the blurred vision during the crit’s heat...

News | 29/10/2019

Tone on Tuesday: On Harvard GSD & Australia

community. The gridded sunshades on the outside of the King George Tower, that cleverly changed from horizontal to vertical as the sun angles changed, and also provided access for cleaning the exterior, were removed and an anodyne all-glass facade...

News | 12/11/2019

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 Wright and Wrong

reading last October 2019, this is Tone on Tuesday #50, a year’s worth! 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...

News | 22/09/2020

Tone on Tuesday: On Architecture Schools Part 4

designers draw on pedagogical studies in three areas; universal ideas for a particular project. Patterns, a name drawn from ‘A Pattern Language’, a 1977 revolutionary text by Christopher Alexander and others, based on eight years intensive...

News | 21/07/2020

Tone on Tuesday: On Solar Water Heating

were still vulnerable to hail, but more efficient to eliminate the need for a bulky frame. Equally important, the tank was now separate from the panels, located on the ground and connected by a pump, where it was more easily installed and...

News | 08/09/2020

Tone on Tuesday 106: Steve King, Architectural Scientist

wherever he could, but sadly it continues to this day, particularly in the design of apartments, where Steve next directed his talents. SEPP 65, the code for apartment design in NSW, attempted to place an emphasis on internal comfort, through controls on...

News | 18/01/2022

Tone on Tuesday 105: Richard Rogers vs Stewart Brand

small check on both of their careers. Vale Richard Rogers. Images, except Safdie model, by Tone Wheeler, principal architect at Environa Studio, Adjunct Professor at UNSW and is President of the Australian Architecture Association...

News | 11/01/2022

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 116: Big plans: the Snowy Mountains Scheme and the NBN

needs to be discussed in this election is ‘Regional Regeneration’, a reconfiguring of how we adapt the regional areas of Australia to make them resilient to climate change. That’s the subject of next week's Tone on Tuesday Tone...

News | 29/03/2022

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