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Mexico City desperately needs a new airport. It also needs more green space. One landscape architect thinks the Mexican capital’s new Norman Foster-designed international airport can be both.
A first glimpse of the low-income housing scheme, designed in collaboration with West, raises red flags.
Sixty two countries are represented at this year’s International Architecture Exhibition. In the Australian Pavilion, 65 species of grassland plants fill a black cube.
Why not turn the moat of parkland enclosing Parliament House into a new inner-city?
Middle-class houses in the US have grown ever larger. The average single-family home is almost twice the size of a home in the 1960s. It’s time to consider the downsides of sizing up.
Building features can be analyzed in the same way that facial recognition software works, revealing previously hidden elements of history.
Of the thousands of churches erected to serve the fast-growing communities of post-war Australia, very few are protected. Are we happy to lose buildings that are so much part of our modern heritage?
By expanding our understanding of streets and enhancing their design, every street corner could become a space to socialise, to exercise, to play, or to trade.
Ventilation and natural light are two simple measures which can make buildings better for people to live and work in.
Despite a boom in the construction of trendy buildings and classrooms, the evidence for their link to boosting learning outcomes is limited.
Three innovative projects set to be completed this year are geared toward strengthening communities that have been left out of the economic recovery.
An innovative collaboration between government, a non-profit group and philanthropists has found a way to provide urgently needed housing on land that would otherwise be left vacant for years.
From a heritage perspective, the transformation of Cape Town’s grain elevator into an art museum delivers an innovative and creative solution to retaining and reusing industrial heritage sites.
A community-led development has been officially declared the UK’s best new building.
Digital media on building facades are changing the appearance of our cities. This creates a need for new urban policy guidelines to retain architectural quality and promote social engagement.
Vancouver may be one of the most beautiful cities in the world, but the president of Emily Carr University says the city could benefit from the discipline of design.
Tall buildings are an increasing feature of Australia’s city landscapes, although they’re still relatively small compared to overseas. But is there a limit on how high we can build?
Cities aren’t just a male creation, but women’s contributions have been sidelined. There are ways we can rediscover and restore these women to their rightful place in the stories of our cities.
By putting the users of buildings – people – at the centre of the process of designing buildings and infrastructure, we can create healthier, more human-centred spaces.
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Professor, Monash University
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Andrew W. Mellon Chair in the Humanities and Professor and Chair of History of Art, Vanderbilt University
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Chair Professor of Architecture, UNSW Sydney
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British Academy Research Fellow, University of Oxford
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Architectural Technologist and Urban Designer, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor of Urban Design, Lancaster University
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Adjunct professor of architecture, University of Adelaide
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Professor of Architecture and SARChI: DST/NRF/SACN Research Chair in Spatial Transformation (Positive Change in the Built Environment), Tshwane University of Technology
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Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Practice, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor, Head of School, School of Architecture, University of Technology Sydney
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Architect and lecturer, University of Liverpool
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Head and Professor of Architecture, Glasgow School of Art
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Visiting Scholar, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge
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Transformation Fellow + Senior Lecturer in Architecture, Queensland University of Technology
