Tag: Affordable housing
Dana Cuff: Do the work that follows your convictions
Ahead of her address at the 2024 Australian Architecture Conference, Dana Cuff sits down with ArchitectureAU to discuss how architects can regain their agency in making the world a better place.
Nightingale opens first rental development in Sydney
An innovative social housing project has been opened in Sydney’s Marrickville by the New South Wales housing minister Rose Jackson.
Affordable housing complex proposed for Sydney’s north-west
Designed by SJB with Land and Form Studios, the development at 6 Halifax Street will be part of a masterplanned community at the Lachlan’s Line precinct on Wallumedgal Country.
Density done well key to stemming Sydney’s exodus of the young
The New South Wales Productivity Commission has thrown its weight behind affordable, higher density housing in inner-Sydney suburbs, after it identified a mass exodus of younger residents due to high housing costs.
The aspiration of affordable housing
The Robin Boyd Foundation’s Affordable Housing Matters forum looked to inspire new solutions and advocate for a coordinated effort across disciplines to address the current housing crisis.
Australian Institute of Architects welcomes boost to National Housing Accord
The Australian Institute of Architects has praised the National Cabinet for increasing the National Housing Accord goal to 1.2 million properties, to be achieved through zoning reforms and a $3 billion incentive scheme.
Western Australia’s medium-density housing code in limbo
The Western Australian Government has postponed the gazettal of the medium-density housing code, six months after it was first released.
Social housing units to create ‘close sense of community’
Cumulus has designed a community of 48 courtyard-style homes that strives to foster a sense of locality and belonging.
‘Dignity-enabling’: St Albans Housing
NMBW Architecture Studio and MADA rethink the design of accessible, affordable housing and create an apartment block in outer Melbourne and a new model for ageing in place.
A new vision for the future of Sydney
The City of Sydney has released its updated vision for the future of the city into 2050, set to make Sydney more “liveable, sustainable and diverse.”
Institute enters partnership with affordable housing group
The Australian Institute of Architects has entered into a new partnership with the private sector, for-purpose initiative Housing All Australians.
Solid touchstone: Goulburn Street Housing
Elegantly yet dramatically increasing inner Hobart’s residential density, Cumulus Studio’s Goulburn Street Housing responds to the heritage context of the streetscape while introducing a new functional and formal typology.
Sense of belonging: Anne Street Garden Villas
On the Gold Coast, a series of affordable, climate-responsive dwellings clustered around a communal garden space is driven by the architect’s desire to help residents develop a personal connection with their home.
Sydney social and affordable housing complex complete
Designed by DKO Architecture, the Gibbon Street housing complex in Redfern will deliver a mix of 40 social and 120 affordable housing units over 18 storeys.
JPW’s social housing development closer to fruition
Previously proposed as a mix of social and private housing across two sites, the project will now be 100 percent social and will also include a new gathering space.
Cumulus Studio designs ‘cluster’ of social housing units
Cumulus Studio has completed a 25-unit social housing development on Goulburn Street in inner-city Hobart.
Housing competition winning design to be built
The Victorian government will built one of the four winning designs from its Future Homes competition as a demonstration project.
Community housing, build-to-rent to combine under partnership agreement
An agreement between a developer and a not-for-profit housing provider will see six development across Melbourne deliver a mix of build to rent and community housing.
Radical ideas for affordable housing in Melbourne
A design ideas challenge to create affordable housing in Melbourne has generated winning proposals that capitalize on air rights above railways and tramlines and utilize prefabricated modular timber construction.
City of Sydney proposes alternative Waterloo public housing redevelopment
The City of Sydney has unveiled an alternative scheme for the redevelopment of the Waterloo public housing precinct, which has angered the state government.
