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A quick fire response to the NSW Treasurer's 'tongue-in-cheek' article on ten buildings he'd like to demolish. This article argues that the desire for demolition remains within the traditional 'cradle-to-grave' model of thinking, in a time when we should be focusing on recycling and reuse to push for a circular approach to construction.
Read MoreAn article co-authored with Peter Lonergan (Director, Cracknell & Lonergan), unpackaging the NSW Planning System and the hidden opportunities for re-developing sites and the incentives associated with adaptation rather than building anew to achieve a more sustainable design outcome.
Read MoreThe resource intensive cycle of demolition and construction seems endless, but in this article, I argue that through adaptive reuse we can imagine a more sustainable approach.
Read MoreReflecting on the sustainable lessons of adaptive reuse, this article argues that it is high time architects came to terms with addressing the inevitability of change inherent in all buildings and begin to think about the ways we should try to re-consider and re-use the buildings already built.
Read MoreArchitecture Bulletin | V76, Iss.03, pp.28-29
Responding to the Bulletin’s theme of Climate Crisis, this article posits that architects must fundamentally rethink how cycles of demolition and construction operate within the build environment. It argues that it is far too easy to continually demolish and build anew and that adaptive reuse enables us to shift our thinking into a more sustainable and sensitive approach to our urban fabric.
Not unlike one of my early posts in March (Tear it Apart), I was once again struck by the apparent waste and visual destruction at another construction site near my home in Kensington. This however was very visually different, for two terrace houses stood, hollowed out but nonetheless appeared to be retained in the future low-rise apartment complex known as The Stables.
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