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The year started with Tone on Tuesday, morphed into Design Notes and finished as design-i. A change in nomenclature, but no loss of focus on the topics traversed in design and politics.
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Much talk recently about solving the housing crisis with increased density in existing suburbs (hello NIMBYs).
After five years of restoration, the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris reopens its doors to the world, sublimated by exceptional work. The blond stone, bronze liturgical furnishings and ancestral craftsmanship bring this unique landmark back to life.
Ask the wrong questions - get the wrong answers. That’s how to judge the just announced winners of the Pattern Book Design Competition (PBDC), run by the NSW Department of Planning Housing and Infrastructure (DoPHI), and Government Architect (GA).
Australia is failing to realise billions of dollars in value by not embracing a circular economy, according to a new report by Arup and Circular Australia.
In this week’s Saturday Paper, prolific social researcher Hugh Mackay claims to have discovered “an overlooked cause of the housing crisis”.
Woods Bagot’s James Berry Principal and Global Transport Sector Leader reflects on how changing behaviour, technology and customer expectations will change our urban transport systems, and cities, for good.
Following on from last week’s column, I’m arguing it’s time to rethink our entire approach to climate design.
Trump won. The climate lost. Drill baby, drill. Burn baby, burn.
If last week’s design-i on Graeme Gunn seemed personal, this week’s story is even more so.
The recent Design & Make Summit in Sydney saw discussions around how Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies are disrupting Australia’s construction industry “faster than most of us expected”.
Graeme Gunn, Melbourne architect, academic and advocate died this month aged 91. You can read obituaries here, here and here.