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Tone on Tuesday 130: AV Jennings and Project Homes

. A. V. Jennings’ Construction Co Jennings could now deliver ‘standard but customised’ houses on a customer’s land, but there were few blocks available for customers to buy, and moreover individual homes on separate blocks of...

News | 05/07/2022

Tone on Tuesday 209: Homes won’t solve homelessness.

middle. Finding out what’s missing in the muddle is the subject of next week's Tone on Tuesday. This is Tone on Tuesday #209, 21 May 2024, written by Tone Wheeler, architect / Adjunct Prof UNSW / President AAA. The views expressed are his...

News | 21/05/2024

Tone on Tuesday: Electrification - cute electrics or electrocution?

. The first problem is the sheer penetration of natural gas. Ever since the Gas and Fuel Corporation in Victoria partnered with A.V. Jennings for our first model project home, almost a hundred years ago, Sydney and Melbourne suburbia has relied on...

News | 23/04/2024

Tone on Tuesday 227: How to fix social housing, explained in six diagrams

and increase diversity. Title image: We have a housing crisis, at all levels, see ToT 225. The worst of the inequality is the dearth of social housing. It is an missing hole in the whole of society. Goodbye Tone on Tuesday: This is the last ever...

News | 04/09/2024

Tone on Tuesday 223: The Athlete's Village in Three Australian Olympics

August) of the proposed Brisbane Olympic Village. Image by Queensland Government. Next week: Where to go to see lots of good architecture. This is Tone on Tuesday #223, 6 August 2024. Researched and written by Tone Wheeler, architect / Adjunct Prof...

News | 06/08/2024

Tone on Tuesday 132: The Project Home of Today

houses on flat sites on the outskirts of the major cities, as we saw with A.V. Jennings in the 60s and 70s. That continues to be where the largest cohort of the biggest project home builders work today, in ‘house and land packages’. But...

News | 19/07/2022

Tone on Tuesday 212: The most sustainable homes

building fabric of the existing, and new services, to make them THE MOST sustainable ever. This is Tone on Tuesday #212, 11 June 2024, Some of this article and diagram was first published in the NSW Architecture Bulletin, Housing for All, Vol 80, No 2...

News | 11/06/2024

Tone On Tuesday 139: Ed Gurney – Australia’s most prolific architect

Readers will know my fascination with project homes. I’ve designed quite a few, for several builders, and am re-starting my own business. I’ve written about the roots of project homes, the seminal work of A. V. Jennings, the changes wrought by brick...

News | 06/09/2022

Tone on Tuesday 214: Solving the housing crisis without building homes

crisis’. This is Tone on Tuesday #214, 18 June 2024. It was written by Tone Wheeler, architect / Adjunct Prof UNSW / President AAA. The views expressed are his. Past Tone on Tuesday columns can be found here. You can contact TW at [email protected] ...

News | 18/06/2024

Tone on Tuesday 215: Immigration is not a housing issue

dwellings. This is Tone on Tuesday #215, 25 June 2024. It was written by Tone Wheeler, architect / Adjunct Prof UNSW / President AAA. The views expressed are his. Past Tone on Tuesday columns can be found here. You can contact TW at [email protected] ...

News | 25/06/2024

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

. V. Jennings and brick veneer construction in the coming weeks, before turning our gaze to project homes of the future. Tone Wheeler is principal architect at Environa Studio, Adjunct Professor at UNSW and is President of the Australian...

News | 28/06/2022

Design notes for week 50/2023 from Tone on Tuesday

I’ve been pilloried for working with several firms on project homes. I comfort myself thinking I am following in the footsteps of Edgar Gurney who designed more than 10,000 individual houses built by AV Jennings between 1931 and 1956. Only 9,900 to go...

News | 12/12/2023

Tone on Tuesday 211: A short history of sustainable houses

by TW. Next week: Designing for sustainability in the most sustainable form. This is Tone on Tuesday #211, 4 June 2024, Much of this article was first published in the NSW Architecture Bulletin, Housing for All, Vol 80, No 2, 2023-4. It was...

News | 04/06/2024

Tone on Tuesday 210: Housing in the Missing Middle - 6 bedrooms, 6 packs, 6 storeys

In recent weeks, Tone on Tuesday has been looking at suburbia: ways to make it more sustainable, how to develop good quality social housing, and addressing homelessness. This week the iceberg issue: How to increase housing density in our suburbs...

News | 28/05/2024

Tone on Tuesday asks: What’s up with Palm Beach?

doorstep. Next week: Design Notes. This is Tone on Tuesday #204, 16 April 2024, written by Tone Wheeler, architect /Adjunct Prof UNSW /President AAA. The views expressed are his. Past Tone on Tuesday columns can be found here. You can contact TW at...

News | 16/04/2024

Design notes for early April 2024, by Tone on Tuesday

Tuesday #203, 9 April 2024, researched and written by Tone Wheeler, architect /Adjunct Prof UNSW /President AAA. The views expressed are his. Past Design Notes and Tone on Tuesday columns can be found here. You can contact TW at [email protected].

News | 09/04/2024

Tone on Tuesday 225: The housing crisis explained in six diagrams.

: Politics and housing. TW. Next week: 6 diagrams that explain social housing. This is Tone on Tuesday #225, 20 August 2024. Researched and written by Tone Wheeler, architect / Adjunct Prof UNSW / President AAA. The views expressed are his. Past Tone on...

News | 20/08/2024

Tone on Tuesday 133: Finding the Hybrid Project Home

implications - project home death. Nothing to do here. The Top End My next project was at the other, ‘designer’ end: Felton Homes, run by Michael Milosevic, an architect by training, had built some well-designed large homes on acreage and...

News | 26/07/2022

Design notes for week 11/2024 from Tone on Tuesday

developed, knowing it is automatically approved. More next week. Tone Wheeler is an architect /adjunct prof UNSW / president AAA. The views expressed are his. These Design Notes are Tone on Tuesday #199, week 11/2024. Past Tone on Tuesday columns...

News | 12/03/2024

Tone on Tuesday 134: The Reincarnated McMansion

have covered project homes ideas, a history of project homes through A.V. Jennings, the project home problems with brick veneer, the typologies of today’s project homes, and future hybrid project homes. Tone Wheeler is principal architect at...

News | 02/08/2022

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