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There’s a huge variety of possible sites, and finding a pathway through the tortuous current controls to establish ‘standardised designs’ for those sites leads to the conclusion that a universal pattern book requires an almost infinite number of possible designs. Which defeats the purpose.

It’s been a remarkable week of pop music, but you need to pay attention to the designs.

Building products using asbestos as a strengthening agent started in the 1920s. By the 50s it had become the basis of many sheet materials and insulation in the building industry, witnessed by the three prominent advertisements for asbestos (above + below), taken from a 1954 commemorative edition of Architecture Australia, produced for the annual conference. 70 years ago it’s as a wonder product.

A relative humidity of 50% is optimal; below 40% causes extremely dry air, leading to static electricity from friction (when you touch a metal cabinet in an AC building). Over 70% increases the feeling of heat, adding 5 degrees or more to the temperature sensed. There’s a sweet spot, or rather a sweet range, described by analysing the combination of air temperature and humidity in a Psychrometric Chart.

We unveil the road.cc Recommends Bike of the Year 2023/24. After 12 months of riding and reviewing, covering a range of different types of cycling, it’s time to find out which models have made it into our top 10 Bikes of the Year, and which is the overall winner

The hero shot is the bane of good architecture. Form follows photos. Its a manifestation of container over contained: the exterior, not the internal. It should be space, light, use, quality. Those are the things that make architecture. I rail against the hero shot’s ubiquity, and architects’ obsession with it.

I described the CCAE SED as being unique in offering an interdisciplinary design course. Gaven Gilmour, architect in Rockhampton, graduate of QIT and DN reader begs to differ. He writes so passionately about his education, I think its worth quoting at some length:

Architecture, landscape, and industrial design shared studios technical workshops, common courses in first year, and interdisciplinary projects. Whilst that innovation has dimmed in the intervening years, its successes and future possibilities were celebrated in a symposium this month, which inspires today’s column.

The word sustainability, at least as applied to design, traces back to the 1970s, but the origins of the idea go back to interests in passive solar and better urban design after WW2 (Homes in the Sun, Walter Bunning, 1945). The 1960s then saw two emerging and intersecting trends.