Tag: Housing
Election promise to end medium density housing code a backward step: Institute
The NSW Minster for Planning and Housing has announced the winners of a national ideas competition to design medium-density housing.
Australia’s First Baugruppe
Geoffrey London speaks to Jennie Officer about Baugruppen at WGV, discussing the potential of the Baugruppen process to adapt to the Australian context.
Portable units and temporary leases free up vacant land for urgent housing needs
Katrina Raynor considers the innovations behind a portable housing project designed to house the homeless in Melbourne, which represents a scalable response to Australia’s urgent social and affordable housing needs.
Four entries make shortlist for WA public housing competition
The shortlist for a competition to design public housing in Perth that will generate variety, equity and affordability has been revealed.
Seven winning ideas for Queensland’s ‘missing middle’
The Queensland government has announced the winners of its Diversity and Density Done Well ideas competition.
Affordability by design: Gen Y Demonstration Housing
Emblematic of a generational shift in thinking about housing, this development of three apartments by David Barr Architects is an example of affordability by design.
‘Any apartment, anywhere’: Innovative cooperative housing project proposes ‘stacked homes’
A cooperative housing development designed by Spaceagency Architects proposes “stacked homes with no common walls.”
Sydney social housing estate to become $2.2b public-private precinct
Five architecture practices are part of a consortium selected to redevelop an 8.2-hectare social housing estate in Sydney’s north-west.
Toward post-speculative housing: 2017 Housing Futures
How can architects design spaces that create community and reshape the way we engage with finance and procurement to improve housing quality and affordability?
Independent integration: Crown 515
A new set of five apartments by Smart Design Studio discreetly wraps around an existing terrace facade, while announcing itself to the street in a bold, white sculptural form.
Zero-energy, prefab apartment design wins WA medium-density housing competition
David Barr Architects’ modular, prefabricated design has won a WA government agency’s competition to design an affordable, sustainable, medium-density housing project.
Housing affordability, heritage preservation, and the Waterloo housing estate: Festival of Urbanism program announced
A discussion about urbanism in a ‘post-truth’-era and a tour of Parramatta’s heritage sites are included in the event program for the fourth Festival of Urbanism.
One in six new homes unoccupied, 2016 census suggests
An increased proportion of Australia’s housing stock is unoccupied, according to the 2016 census.
Affordable housing incentives exploited by developers, NSW council report finds
A report by Randwick City Council has found the NSW affordable housing incentives for developers are not delivering genuine affordable accommodation for those in need.
$1.8b investment in 5,000 social and affordable homes in Queensland budget
The Queensland government has announced a 10-year plan to deliver an affordable housing program that “hasn’t been done at scale in this country in decades.”
South Australia issues draft housing design guidelines
Medium-density housing, communal space and discouraging the over-provision of car parking are discussed in new draft housing guidelines released by ODASA.
‘We’re not in the 1950s anymore’: NSW greenfield housing plan ‘not sustainable,’ Institute says
The New South Wales Government has proposed plans to tackle the housing affordability crisis by clearing the way for new homes in greenfield areas.
Ideas sought for medium-density housing in Queensland
A single-stage competition seeks to generate ideas for affordable medium-density housing options in Queensland.
It takes a disaster for property purchasers to take notice of land hazard risk, study finds
A study of Christchurch, New Zealand found that consumers barely took notice of land hazard risk in their purchasing decisions until the 2011 earthquake.
Winners announced: NSW’s Missing Middle design competition
The NSW Minster for Planning and Housing has announced the winners of a national ideas competition to design medium-density housing.
