The Theft And Return Of Australian Indigenous Land 1788 To 2013

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Entries open: 2025 ArchitectureAu Award for Social Impact: Entries are now open for the 2025 ArchitectureAu Award for Social Impact, a program that recognises the profoundly transformative impact that built works can have on the communities that occupy them.

If you love to take a break with simple and calming gameplay, nothing better than #MonumentValley - a new release this week! Beautiful kinetic cityscapes inspired by Escher. Low pressure tasks. Real life could be more like this!

When I see research results like these here my conviction to teach people a basic gut feeling of data grows stronger. Folks think that one in five people are transgender?! That’s soooo off. People think that 40% have served in the military?! That’s one of the reasons I share so many charts and maps.

“By 2060, you could have four months of consecutive day after day at or above 35C” - millions living in unbearable heat.

Urban design can mitigate this but we need to stop the continued sprawl of the city into bush/farmland. And climate change.
Y”know, the root causes …
#urbandesign #planning

More #Metro coming for #Sydney!
The design of the new airport line stations was guided by Dharug Country narratives and knowledge, of “carved earth connected to big sky”.

Smaller station footprints, careful material selection and detailing will reduce impact on site and natural systems.

Here are perspectives of the actual new metro stations currently under construction in western Sydney to serve the new airport.
They have considered scale, publicness & economy - always good to see well designed new #publicsydney
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Any person who has looked at the housing ‘quality’ internationally for even 5 minutes would laugh uproariously at the idea that Sydney and Melbourne are awash with high quality over-designed housing. Public housing in Europe leaves Australian market housing for dead in the quality stakes.

Of course they don’t need to be so big - but until we value good design (as this installation by NGV / Breathe Architecture demonstrates) and make better cities, most people will want larger homes.

Spending some worktime in Parramatta which is looking a bit like a kids play mat slowing being populated … new Metro station, light rail, museum, civic spine. Hoping local business, heritage, a bit of roughness can remain. #urbanregeneration #parramatta

The obvious message here is that we need to design our neighbourhoods better to accommodate smaller and more diverse housing … this author’s small apartment works because it’s close to transport, parks, work, shops, family. #housing #cities #urbandesign #neighbourhoods

Your 'bonus moment of doom' for today: The 6th great extinction.

“Now, sometimes it rains in the dry season, and sometimes it's dry in the wet season. It means the trees are fruiting at the wrong time, which upsets the chimpanzees, and also the insects and the birds.”

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Hassell is now a B Corp - part of a network of like-minded, purpose-driven businesses, deepening our commitment to better social and environmental outcomes. This is a big, important step for us … and I am excited about the positive change we can make! #bcorp

www.hassellstudio.com/news-event/h...

“Every $1,300 New York invested in building bike-lanes in 2015 provided benefits equivalent to 1 additional year of life at full health over the lifetime of all city residents, according to a new economic assessment.”

Bike-lanes are a sound public health investment.
www.reuters.com/article/busi...