Architecture Australia, May 2014
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Guest edited by Philip Thalis and Laura Harding, this issue of Architecture Australia examines urban housing.
Projects
Constance Street Affordable Housing
Cox Rayner Architects explores the social and political contribution architecture can make to the city.
One Central Park
A compelling contribution to Sydney by Ateliers Jean Nouvel and PTW Architects.
29–35 Prince Street, Cronulla
A complex and layered multi-residential project by Candalepas Associates.
Goodwood Residence
A residential development in Singapore by WOHA Architects masters the boundaries between public and private.
Dossier
Improving the quality of housing
Lindsay and Kerry Clare consider the impact of SEPP 65 planning regulations on residential design in New South Wales.
The rise and rise of urban housing in Sydney
How SEPP65 and limited design competitions are shaping a more liveable Sydney.
Urban housing in Melbourne
Robert Stent considers the history of multi-residential housing in Victoria’s contemporary, global context.
Postscript
Is this Roadtown?
Peter Myers wonders if Australia is on the cusp of realising a vehicular ‘utopia’ of endless urbanism.
More articles
Making the city: Urban housing
The pervasive commodification of urban housing in Australia is creating mean-spirited cities. Can architects do better?