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Must read article by @emfarrelly.bsky.social on the outrageous, undemocratic recent changes to NSW Planning Act.
Premier Minns in pocket of the worst urgera & profiteers, environmental vandals & developers.
This analysis ignored by MSM, sucked in by press release
architectureau.com/articles/pro...
Premier Minns in pocket of the worst urgera & profiteers, environmental vandals & developers.
This analysis ignored by MSM, sucked in by press release
architectureau.com/articles/pro...
Prohibiting the public interest
The new New South Wales Environmental Planning and Assessment (Planning System Reforms) Bill 2025, which slid through parliament in November with bipartisan support and little press coverage, is “trus...
architectureau.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Must read article by @emfarrelly.bsky.social on the outrageous, undemocratic recent changes to NSW Planning Act.
Premier Minns in pocket of the worst urgera & profiteers, environmental vandals & developers.
This analysis ignored by MSM, sucked in by press release
architectureau.com/articles/pro...
Premier Minns in pocket of the worst urgera & profiteers, environmental vandals & developers.
This analysis ignored by MSM, sucked in by press release
architectureau.com/articles/pro...
The lower of the interior streets of majestic Jones Bay Wharf in Pyrmont, with its dramatic toplights & open vistas to the harbour.
Built by the engineers of the #Sydneyharbourtrust c1920 under Chief Engineer #hdwalsh, it was the last of the great finger wharves they built. #publicsydney
Built by the engineers of the #Sydneyharbourtrust c1920 under Chief Engineer #hdwalsh, it was the last of the great finger wharves they built. #publicsydney
November 22, 2025 at 9:32 PM
The lower of the interior streets of majestic Jones Bay Wharf in Pyrmont, with its dramatic toplights & open vistas to the harbour.
Built by the engineers of the #Sydneyharbourtrust c1920 under Chief Engineer #hdwalsh, it was the last of the great finger wharves they built. #publicsydney
Built by the engineers of the #Sydneyharbourtrust c1920 under Chief Engineer #hdwalsh, it was the last of the great finger wharves they built. #publicsydney
AI perfectly manufactured for real estate rubbish…
Lord I hope this is the result of someone saying to chatGPT ‘Write me some hilariously breathy marketing wankery for a mediocre new development in the Sydney CBD.’ Because if a human was involved in this it is just embarrassing….
November 20, 2025 at 9:31 PM
AI perfectly manufactured for real estate rubbish…
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Good for you.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
November 20, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Good for you.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
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The cost.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
November 17, 2025 at 9:11 PM
The cost.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
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What started as a new office entry - matching in size & scale our #publicsydney drawing with Nolli’s famous 1748 Plan of Rome. Perfect for a design office!
So during COVID we turned our drawing into #publicsydneypuzzle - get yours this Christmas #KinokuniyaAust & #Urobookshops 1/2
So during COVID we turned our drawing into #publicsydneypuzzle - get yours this Christmas #KinokuniyaAust & #Urobookshops 1/2
November 17, 2025 at 10:17 AM
What started as a new office entry - matching in size & scale our #publicsydney drawing with Nolli’s famous 1748 Plan of Rome. Perfect for a design office!
So during COVID we turned our drawing into #publicsydneypuzzle - get yours this Christmas #KinokuniyaAust & #Urobookshops 1/2
So during COVID we turned our drawing into #publicsydneypuzzle - get yours this Christmas #KinokuniyaAust & #Urobookshops 1/2
Design of a substation to look like a house, complete with front landscaped setback & side garden.
Wallis St Woollahra
Suburban infrastructural #publicsydney
Wallis St Woollahra
Suburban infrastructural #publicsydney
November 16, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Design of a substation to look like a house, complete with front landscaped setback & side garden.
Wallis St Woollahra
Suburban infrastructural #publicsydney
Wallis St Woollahra
Suburban infrastructural #publicsydney
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Sydney’s Surry Hills has an extraordinary range of wackily shaped micro lots.
Regular facade, but look at that impossible plan!
Many lots less than 80m2, a few less than 30m2.
Of course never miss a real estate opportunity there…
#sydneyterracehouses
Regular facade, but look at that impossible plan!
Many lots less than 80m2, a few less than 30m2.
Of course never miss a real estate opportunity there…
#sydneyterracehouses
November 13, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Sydney’s Surry Hills has an extraordinary range of wackily shaped micro lots.
Regular facade, but look at that impossible plan!
Many lots less than 80m2, a few less than 30m2.
Of course never miss a real estate opportunity there…
#sydneyterracehouses
Regular facade, but look at that impossible plan!
Many lots less than 80m2, a few less than 30m2.
Of course never miss a real estate opportunity there…
#sydneyterracehouses
November 12, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Admiring the evening light
All yours for free in #publcsydney
All yours for free in #publcsydney
November 12, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Admiring the evening light
All yours for free in #publcsydney
All yours for free in #publcsydney
November 11, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Something new amongst the many things old;
#ianmoorearchitects The Corner Store set amongst the #sydneyterracehouses in Surry Hills.
Gleaming & pristine, so well scaled in relation to the terraces all around
#ianmoorearchitects The Corner Store set amongst the #sydneyterracehouses in Surry Hills.
Gleaming & pristine, so well scaled in relation to the terraces all around
November 11, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Something new amongst the many things old;
#ianmoorearchitects The Corner Store set amongst the #sydneyterracehouses in Surry Hills.
Gleaming & pristine, so well scaled in relation to the terraces all around
#ianmoorearchitects The Corner Store set amongst the #sydneyterracehouses in Surry Hills.
Gleaming & pristine, so well scaled in relation to the terraces all around
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Visiting an old friend;
Our wedge-shaped #studioapartments opposite Dulwich Hill station now have the fabulous #OlympicMeats at street level.
Council have improved street, metro pending, facade cleaned, neighbours still puzzlingly undeveloped, so you can still see form of our triangular site
Our wedge-shaped #studioapartments opposite Dulwich Hill station now have the fabulous #OlympicMeats at street level.
Council have improved street, metro pending, facade cleaned, neighbours still puzzlingly undeveloped, so you can still see form of our triangular site
November 9, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Visiting an old friend;
Our wedge-shaped #studioapartments opposite Dulwich Hill station now have the fabulous #OlympicMeats at street level.
Council have improved street, metro pending, facade cleaned, neighbours still puzzlingly undeveloped, so you can still see form of our triangular site
Our wedge-shaped #studioapartments opposite Dulwich Hill station now have the fabulous #OlympicMeats at street level.
Council have improved street, metro pending, facade cleaned, neighbours still puzzlingly undeveloped, so you can still see form of our triangular site
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Important to add some critical context here;
-developer is Lend Lease
-Barangaroo was all public land
-contract between NSW Govt & Lend Lease still secret…even though it’s our land
-only 2.3% of housing there ‘affordable’, but wrongly tied to market rent & not capped at 30% of income
-developer is Lend Lease
-Barangaroo was all public land
-contract between NSW Govt & Lend Lease still secret…even though it’s our land
-only 2.3% of housing there ‘affordable’, but wrongly tied to market rent & not capped at 30% of income
November 7, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Important to add some critical context here;
-developer is Lend Lease
-Barangaroo was all public land
-contract between NSW Govt & Lend Lease still secret…even though it’s our land
-only 2.3% of housing there ‘affordable’, but wrongly tied to market rent & not capped at 30% of income
-developer is Lend Lease
-Barangaroo was all public land
-contract between NSW Govt & Lend Lease still secret…even though it’s our land
-only 2.3% of housing there ‘affordable’, but wrongly tied to market rent & not capped at 30% of income
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Winning residential projects from the 2025 National Architecture Awards
Winning residential projects from the 2025 National Architecture Awards
This year’s awards recognised seventeen exceptional residential projects.
dlvr.it
November 6, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Winning residential projects from the 2025 National Architecture Awards
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Wonderful acknowledgment of the tremendous contribution of Emeritus Professor James Weirick, tonight receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award from #UrbanDesignAssociation NSW.
Whether lecturing, teaching, research, offering design review or expert evidence, advocacy & fearless criticism, a champion
Whether lecturing, teaching, research, offering design review or expert evidence, advocacy & fearless criticism, a champion
November 6, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Wonderful acknowledgment of the tremendous contribution of Emeritus Professor James Weirick, tonight receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award from #UrbanDesignAssociation NSW.
Whether lecturing, teaching, research, offering design review or expert evidence, advocacy & fearless criticism, a champion
Whether lecturing, teaching, research, offering design review or expert evidence, advocacy & fearless criticism, a champion
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8 km of retreat in just 2 months...! 😱
The fastest glacier retreat ever recorded in modern history, at Hektoria Glacier (Antarctic peninsula) 📈🔥
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Via Etienne Berthier
The fastest glacier retreat ever recorded in modern history, at Hektoria Glacier (Antarctic peninsula) 📈🔥
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Via Etienne Berthier
November 4, 2025 at 8:54 AM
8 km of retreat in just 2 months...! 😱
The fastest glacier retreat ever recorded in modern history, at Hektoria Glacier (Antarctic peninsula) 📈🔥
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Via Etienne Berthier
The fastest glacier retreat ever recorded in modern history, at Hektoria Glacier (Antarctic peninsula) 📈🔥
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Via Etienne Berthier
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Smart #woollahracouncil!
Allowing more apartments, cheaper to build, sell, rent & maintain, by limiting car parking in flood-prone centres -what’s not to like @smh?
If you want density with less cars & greater affordability, you should support this.
Just add PT
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
Allowing more apartments, cheaper to build, sell, rent & maintain, by limiting car parking in flood-prone centres -what’s not to like @smh?
If you want density with less cars & greater affordability, you should support this.
Just add PT
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
The eastern suburbs homes and the sinking feeling that has residents on edge
A surge in new developments is triggering calls for an overhaul of multistorey housing reforms in a bid to stop “building cracks” appearing in homes surrounding construction sites.
www.smh.com.au
November 3, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Smart #woollahracouncil!
Allowing more apartments, cheaper to build, sell, rent & maintain, by limiting car parking in flood-prone centres -what’s not to like @smh?
If you want density with less cars & greater affordability, you should support this.
Just add PT
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
Allowing more apartments, cheaper to build, sell, rent & maintain, by limiting car parking in flood-prone centres -what’s not to like @smh?
If you want density with less cars & greater affordability, you should support this.
Just add PT
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
Architecture is certainly work for the patient…but here part of our 1996 design for an ensemble of 18 houses (& a service station!) finally on site.
Pair of courtyard houses, open to sun. Compact & amenable, playful scale,
#missingmiddle
1998 approval had ‘commencement’ as 4 houses built
Pair of courtyard houses, open to sun. Compact & amenable, playful scale,
#missingmiddle
1998 approval had ‘commencement’ as 4 houses built
October 31, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Architecture is certainly work for the patient…but here part of our 1996 design for an ensemble of 18 houses (& a service station!) finally on site.
Pair of courtyard houses, open to sun. Compact & amenable, playful scale,
#missingmiddle
1998 approval had ‘commencement’ as 4 houses built
Pair of courtyard houses, open to sun. Compact & amenable, playful scale,
#missingmiddle
1998 approval had ‘commencement’ as 4 houses built
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we shouldn’t divide our cities like TV dinners with zoning. we should plan cities like salads and mix everything up
December 9, 2024 at 12:15 AM
we shouldn’t divide our cities like TV dinners with zoning. we should plan cities like salads and mix everything up
@emfarrelly.bsky.social spot on;
“Architecture is the most public of the arts, yet the least publicly discussed. That’s not a high bar: across the arts in general, the public conversation is unedifying at best. But in architecture, it is all but non-existent”
architectureau.com/articles/arc...
“Architecture is the most public of the arts, yet the least publicly discussed. That’s not a high bar: across the arts in general, the public conversation is unedifying at best. But in architecture, it is all but non-existent”
architectureau.com/articles/arc...
Architecture has a talk problem
Whatever public conversation there is about architecture is dominated by celebrities and enthusiasts, who “promote” it without enhancing anyone’s understanding of the difference between the good, the ...
architectureau.com
October 26, 2025 at 11:08 AM
@emfarrelly.bsky.social spot on;
“Architecture is the most public of the arts, yet the least publicly discussed. That’s not a high bar: across the arts in general, the public conversation is unedifying at best. But in architecture, it is all but non-existent”
architectureau.com/articles/arc...
“Architecture is the most public of the arts, yet the least publicly discussed. That’s not a high bar: across the arts in general, the public conversation is unedifying at best. But in architecture, it is all but non-existent”
architectureau.com/articles/arc...
Our project for the adaptation of 1903 heritage-listed Raith House approved in Campbelltown.
The beautiful verandahs on all sides will become sheltered play spaces, main rooms retained, sympathetic new wing to rear defines a courtyard for youngest to play in. Offices in max roof
#creativeadaption
The beautiful verandahs on all sides will become sheltered play spaces, main rooms retained, sympathetic new wing to rear defines a courtyard for youngest to play in. Offices in max roof
#creativeadaption
October 25, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Our project for the adaptation of 1903 heritage-listed Raith House approved in Campbelltown.
The beautiful verandahs on all sides will become sheltered play spaces, main rooms retained, sympathetic new wing to rear defines a courtyard for youngest to play in. Offices in max roof
#creativeadaption
The beautiful verandahs on all sides will become sheltered play spaces, main rooms retained, sympathetic new wing to rear defines a courtyard for youngest to play in. Offices in max roof
#creativeadaption
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Merry Christmas everyone!
This Christmas, we remember all the businesses shut down by a lack of car traffic, etcetc
This Christmas, we remember all the businesses shut down by a lack of car traffic, etcetc
October 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Merry Christmas everyone!
This Christmas, we remember all the businesses shut down by a lack of car traffic, etcetc
This Christmas, we remember all the businesses shut down by a lack of car traffic, etcetc
The architect & their building;
Jared Webb of J.AR Office explaining the delights of his newly-completed design of the hospitality venue Golden Avenue in central Brisbane.
Fantastic interlocking series of spaces, inside & outside & everything in between.
Loved the sneek peek of the operable roofs
Jared Webb of J.AR Office explaining the delights of his newly-completed design of the hospitality venue Golden Avenue in central Brisbane.
Fantastic interlocking series of spaces, inside & outside & everything in between.
Loved the sneek peek of the operable roofs
October 23, 2025 at 2:23 PM
The architect & their building;
Jared Webb of J.AR Office explaining the delights of his newly-completed design of the hospitality venue Golden Avenue in central Brisbane.
Fantastic interlocking series of spaces, inside & outside & everything in between.
Loved the sneek peek of the operable roofs
Jared Webb of J.AR Office explaining the delights of his newly-completed design of the hospitality venue Golden Avenue in central Brisbane.
Fantastic interlocking series of spaces, inside & outside & everything in between.
Loved the sneek peek of the operable roofs
Long, slender & serene
Our collaboration with #claredesign on a major apartment complex in Brisbane.
Thin section, generous double height porticos, all apartments north facing & cross ventilated, gallery access, garden apartments, refined architectural character
From archive - approved but unbuilt
Our collaboration with #claredesign on a major apartment complex in Brisbane.
Thin section, generous double height porticos, all apartments north facing & cross ventilated, gallery access, garden apartments, refined architectural character
From archive - approved but unbuilt
October 22, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Long, slender & serene
Our collaboration with #claredesign on a major apartment complex in Brisbane.
Thin section, generous double height porticos, all apartments north facing & cross ventilated, gallery access, garden apartments, refined architectural character
From archive - approved but unbuilt
Our collaboration with #claredesign on a major apartment complex in Brisbane.
Thin section, generous double height porticos, all apartments north facing & cross ventilated, gallery access, garden apartments, refined architectural character
From archive - approved but unbuilt