Really pleased to see #regionaldevelopment and local design and architecture practices being supported in EOI request for #Commonwealthgames#Victoria2026
Hope our profession has recognised the value of embedding local , regional insight in their submissions.
Does hospital preclude capacity to include adaptive reuse? How plans for a multi-billion-dollar city hospital have made a historical site expendable abc.net.au/news/2022-10-12/s… via @ABCaustralia
Agree @roryhyde but in some respects this is an even bigger win demonstrating that landscape projects do actually have a $$value. Sad but necessary for some audiences with singular language
“Council ought to back such projects because they are good, not because they make money. What price can you put on returning life to the river? On a quiet place to sit? On birdsong? Or on placing Aboriginal culture at the centre of the city?” theage.com.au/national/victo…
Seriously concerning when someone simply divides average house construction rate by square meterage to determine cost of smaller home. Then cites examples without any specific costs: Top 5 Floor Plans & Designs for Small Houses | Architecture & Design architectureanddesign.com.au…
Time for a planned retreat - move buildings off floodplains, reforest floodplains upriver to slow floodwaters.
Time for design - wrestle with the implications of this for our communities, ecologies, histories.
theconversation.com/its-time… via @ConversationEDU