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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. It's 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 it's 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.