September 2021

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Putting People At The Top Of The Agenda
Firstly, I’d like to offer my sincere congratulations to the winners in the Institute’s 2021 Chapter Awards program. In my previous foreword, I laid down my agenda to look beyond awards during my presidency; although this remains my aim, it is import
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Embracing Shifting Demographics
In March this year, the Final Report of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety called for fundamental reform of the aged care system. As architect Jan Golembiewski highlighted in his article for The Conversation (9 April 2021), the re
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Editorial director Katelin Butler Associate editor Georgia Birks Managing editor Nicci Dodanwela Editorial team Linda Cheng, Cassie Hansen, Josh Harris, Alexa Kempton, Elle McFadzean Institute Advisory Committee Clare Cousins, Barnaby Hartford-Davis
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Venice Biennale 2021 Australian exhibit: In | Between
The Venice Architecture Biennale 2021, curated by Hashim Sarkis, poses the question “How will we live together?” and calls on architects “to imagine spaces in which we can generously live together.” Sarkis’s provocation is a compelling pitch, on the
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MMXX: Two Decades of Architecture in Australia
More a massive magazine than a book in the traditional sense, MMXX (Thames and Hudson, 2020) seeks both currency and reflection. Cataloguing 20 years of Australian architecture, Cameron Bruhn acts as author and editor, concisely writing on 59 selecte
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Design: Building on Country
Alison Page and Paul Memmott have written this timely and powerful book as part of a First Knowledges series, edited by Margo Kneale, which brings together Indigenous and non-Indigenous authors in an act of reconciliation. Design: Building on Country
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Woods Bagot and Shop Architects
Melbourne city is slowly coming back to life after months of lockdowns, on and off. Walking the streets of the CBD, I see people around, a tenuous return to the streets. As you walk west along Collins Street, you pass some of Melbourne’s best ninetee
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Bilya Marlee Kerry Hill Architects
Bilya Marlee, the new home for the School of Indigenous Studies (SIS), the Poche Centre for Indigenous Health and the Centre for Aboriginal Medical and Dental Health at the University of Western Australia (UWA), comfortably co-exists with a grove of
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HOTA Gallery ARM Architecture
The claim that the new $60.5 million gallery at the Home of the Arts (HOTA) unapologetically reflects the “bold and brash” personality of the Gold Coast originated in the media releases timed for its opening on 8 May and was taken up in the echolalia
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Easy Street DFJ Architects
While the first phase of Habitat – a sustainable mixed-use “village” on the industrial outskirts of Byron Bay – came to fruition in 2017, the project was, in a sense, already some decades old. With this village, developer Brandon Saul (the entreprene
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Living Longer, Designing Differently
We are living longer lives, and in more highly urbanized areas, than ever before. Guy Luscombe brings together experts in the field to envision a more age-and dementia-friendly built environment that supports ageing in place, access to the natural en
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Where Do You Want To Live When You Grow Older?
It is 2021. By 2050, if we survive the climate crisis (and any further pandemics), most reading this will be over 60 years old. And by 2100, according to a recent Lancet paper, there will be more than double the number of over-80-year-olds than under
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Ageing Well In The Bluefields
Suburbanized cities, regardless of scale, face a common dilemma: how to increase both housing supply and diversity while maintaining an established low-scale leafy character. While greenfield and brownfield zoning continue to increase housing supply
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Making The Most Of Life: The Longevity Bonus Is A Design Issue
The Challenge: “It’s 2050 and Redlands, Queensland is renowned the world over as the best place to live for people of all ages.” Australians are living longer and healthier lives. The average life expectancy of baby boomers and gen Xers is 30 years l
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Age-friendly City Design: Identifying Common Opportunities Across The World
Designing with, and for, the older people in our communities is becoming increasingly important as we see two major societal changes: our population is ageing and is increasingly urban. For the first time in history, there are now more people aged ov
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Age-friendly City Design: The Case Of Sydney
The statistics are stark: by 2041, the Greater Sydney region’s population of people over 65 years of age is predicted to reach more than 1.2 million, more than twice as many as there are today.1 Sydney benefits from a wide range of programs to suppor
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Country, Family, Kin And Community: Architectural Considerations For Indigenous Aged Care
In Australia, the average life expectancy of Indigenous people is estimated to be eight years lower than that of non-Indigenous people.1 As a result of years of health disparity, Indigenous people access aged care at a much younger age than non-Indig
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Roundtable: Ramps For The Brain, Disneyland And Antarctica
“Dementia” is the collective term for several degenerative brain diseases, with Alzheimer’s disease being the most common. Of all age-related conditions, dementia is perhaps the most tragic. It is the second leading cause of death in Australia – the
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Anna O’Gorman Architect
Ontological security is a sense of wellbeing derived from stable and ordered living circumstances. It arises from something as simple as knowing where all the light switches are in your house and extends to being familiar with and feeling safe around
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Cumulus Studio
Across Australia, the regions are rising rapidly and shifting gears quickly to address emerging issues that would have felt like a distant dream as recently as five years ago. The combination of constantly increasing house prices in metropolitan cent
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2021 Chapter Awards
Australian Museum Project Discover by Cox Architecture with Neeson Murcutt and Neille Carpe Diem Companionway by Collins and Turner with Geyer Smart Design Studio by Smart Design Studio Arbutus by Smart Design Studio; Barker College Rosewood Centr

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