Affordable Housing
Events
Indesign Social Club kicks on in Melbourne with Reece
Born out of Saturday Indesign research, our new Social Club is a space for younger, junior designers to meet and discuss the issues of the day — and it just hit Melbourne for the first time.
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A new mixed-use precinct for West London
TURNER’s first major UK project brings together more than 400 apartments, retail and communal spaces in a Brentford precinct shaped by view corridors and infrastructure.
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“Density can be done well”: JPW project increases social housing offering by 300%
As a significant renewal of an established social housing project, JPW’s recently completed Cowper Street Housing in Glebe, Sydney aims to bring sustainable and community-focused density to an inner city suburb.
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SyLon Report: Housing as infrastructure, housing in crisis
AFK Studios’ Earle Arney joined STORIESINDESIGN podcast last year to speak about SyLon. Here, we reproduce a summary on a recent report with NLA that builds on research into housing as infrastructure amidst a landscape of housing crisis.
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Setting the blueprint for Bradfield City’s first precinct
The master plan and reference design for Bradfield City’s First Land Release has been unveiled, positioning the precinct as a sustainable, mixed-use gateway shaped by Country, community and long-term urban ambition.
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Architecture, democracy and feeling at home in our cities
The built environment is all around us; would the average citizen feel less alienated if the education system engaged more explicitly with it?
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NSW Government releases nine new architect-designed mid-rise housing patterns
The Minns Labor Government has unveiled nine new architect-designed mid-rise apartment patterns, expanding the NSW Housing Pattern Book and accelerating the delivery of accessible, high-quality housing across the state.
Events
A live audience interview with Anthony Burke
Professor of architecture, academic, television presenter and much else besides, Anthony Burke joins Timothy Alouani-Roby in Sydney for a live audience discussion about housing and his globetrotting story in architecture.
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What is the role of design in a world in crisis?
At the World Design Congress in London, a simple idea threaded through two dense days: design is not an island. It moves inside wider systems of economics, policy, finance and ecology.
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Between Sydney and London: Earle Arney on Stories Indesign
The London-based architect was recently in Australia for SyLon, an event broadcast simultaneously in Sydney and London to explore housing solutions across both cities.
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UNSW housing analytics lab launches in Sydney
A new analytics lab led by UNSW researchers will draw on generative AI in an attempt to tackle Australia’s housing crisis, and has opened with an event attended by the NSW Premier in Eveleigh.
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How can architecture be a good neighbour?
As an entry to The Multi-Residential Building category at the 2024 INDE.Awards, NH Architecture and Bird de la Coeur Architects have achieved an exemplary outcome with a project that addresses the challenges of social and affordable housing.
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Don’t demolish Flemington Estate, says OFFICE – ‘Retain, Repair, Reinvest’
Australia’s only not-for-profit architectural practice, OFFICE, is supporting the residents of Victoria’s housing estates in their fight to save their homes and communities.
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A win for high-quality housing with EM BE CE
EM BE CE’s competition-winning design for an inner-city affordable housing development achieves efficiency and durability without sacrificing elegant design.
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Home Truth at NGV: Breathe confronts the elephant in the oversized room
Melbourne-based architects Breathe have constructed an unfinished house at the NGV that puts the question of house sizes in Australia on the agenda.
Events
Adam Haddow comments on new NSW housing manifesto
The AIA NSW Chapter President reacts to a recent announcement by the Minns state government aimed at tackling the housing crisis.
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‘Sticky tenants’ with Make Architects: UK learnings for Australian build-to-rent
What can Australian build-to-rent (BTR) developers learn from the experienced UK market and how can these lessons be applied locally? Frank Filskow shares valuable insights from Make’s work and research in the UK and Australia.
People
G8A’s Manuel Der Hagopian believes in public housing
Manuel Der Hagopian of G8A believes that public housing is necessary to maintain social balance. And he says good architecture which serves people is borne of a deep understanding of time and place.
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Fairley Batch on building less and giving more with Breathe
We talk with Fairley Batch on how Breathe is leading the way in sustainable multi-residential design and innovating to reshape ideas of development in Australia.
People
How Bent Architecture is honing affordable housing – without skimping on quality
Ensuring that affordable housing is environmentally sustainable, socially conscious and beautifully designed is integral to Melbourne-based practice, Bent Architecture.
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Could micro apartments be the future of affordable housing?
Plus Architecture’s Danny Juric questions the validity of ‘build-to-rent’ as an affordable housing solution, looking instead towards possibilities such as micro apartments.
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Big things happening in tiny places
The tiny home movement in Geelong has received an extra push from a collaboration between Deaking University, Geelong company Formflow and Samaritan House that aims to achieve greater affordability for homeowners and people in need of transitional housing.
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Fight for affordable housing
Are we being priced out of our own housing market? Is renting-for-life really so bad? A growing frontline of architects and developers are addressing the challenge with progressive housing models that offer new avenues for entering the housing market.
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Sydney Architecture Festival: <em>Making. Housing. Affordable.</em>
The Sydney Architecture Festival 2019 unveils a series of events that looks at the role and value of architecture and its innate response to the human need for shelter. For one whole week, the city of Sydney turns into a sphere of exploration and research, investigating the rise in urban density and the inimitable housing crisis.