On why we need a manifesto for artists and loud architects in our cities The Fifth Estate Architects understand artists and how to find the niches among the hard edges of reality in the built environment in which they can insert human dreams and aspirations. So why aren’t they more loud and demanding?
Our transport choices are about more than keeping Sydney moving Jason Packenham, ASPECT Studios and Benjamin Driver, Hill Thalis Architecture + Urban Projects As Sydney continues to grapple with the ever-growing economic, environmental and social costs of its congestion, it is plain to see that Sydney’s historically car-based mobility preferences cannot continue in a city of 8 million people in the future. 3
Oxygen files – Thatcher, US data, fracking, Ningaloo Reef and blood bricks Willow Aliento | 17 October 2018 It’s a testament perhaps to how far to the edge of irrational conservatism our own Coalition has shifted when the Iron Lady of British politics, Margaret Thatcher, sounds like she was actually a sensible Australian centrist Greens MP.
OXYGEN FILES: Warwick Johnston, McKibbin, Wilderness Society, Tim Buckley, Engineers Willow Aliento | 4 October 2018 Feeling a bit like a frog in a heating pot? If not you’re not paying attention, which is the point really. Read a round up of what needs to gain some oxygen this week, from a boom in solar energy to deforestation, rising emissions and why India won’t need so much coal in future.
Vic energy certificates, ASIC unhappy on climate disclosure, dam levels, farmers and worms Willow Aliento | 27 September 2018 Your weekly round up of sustainability news and what it means.
Why Standing Rock could be a Custer moment for fossil fuels Willow Aliento | 24 November 2016 OPINION: Right now in North Dakota, hundreds of Native American people are being shot at with rubber bullets, bombarded with tear gas and blasted by water cannon as they stand…
News from the front desk: Issue No 305 – On Victoria’s susty training wheels and how no car parking can save up to $100,000 a unit 18 August 2016 On Victoria’s susty training wheels and how no car parking can save up to $100,000 a unit
Behind the lines: Governments feel the heat of community anger Lynne Blundell | 23 March 2016 As the world passed a momentous milestone in March – the average temperature in the northern hemisphere rising two degrees Celsius above “normal” for the first time in recorded history…
