Residential Flat Design Pattern Book
“MacArthur Street Housing is a model affordable housing project that has been designed with a strong emphasis on issues of sustainability. The building is of a scale sympathetic to the surrounding buildings and sits well within the existing streetscape of warehouses and terraces.”
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Rod was recently asked to write a “think piece” to stimulate discussion at the 2nd COAG Reform Council’s Cities continuous improvement and best practice workshop series. The workshop scope was “Delivering change: Supporting the Private Sector in the Delivery of Strategic Vision for Australian Cities”. Rod argues for loosening up of outdated restrictive planning controls and cessation of “design for garbage trucks” in greenfield, proactive government involvement in brownfields to minimise risk for the private sector, and removing impediments to people adapting in greyfields.
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source: National Awards for Planning Excellence 2010 Commemorative Publication
Winner
The President’s Award represents outstanding planning practice. This Award is judged by the PIA National Awards Judging Panel in consultation with The PIA National President. It is judged from all nominations.
PRECINX Landcom Sustainability Tool
Landcom with Kinesis and Simpson + Wilson
Why Sydney needs a second airport
In the last edition of Architecture Bulletin, Bob Meyer wrote about Sydney as an airport city. Rod Simpson agrees… and disagrees. Here’s his alternative:
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Housing Australia: How architects can make a difference
About two thirds of the demand for the additional 600,000 dwellings in Sydney over the next two decades will come from the changes in household structure, an aging population and social change such as higher divorce rates and higher number of single person households. Similar dynamics exist in most major cities in Australia. This increased demand for housing is partly responsible for the decline in housing affordability.
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