Hill Thalis Architecture + Urban Projects
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Australian independent architecture and urban design practice. RTs are not endorsements.
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Sydney’s Surry Hills has an extraordinary range of wackily shaped micro lots.
Regular facade, but look at that impossible plan!
Many lots less than 80m2, a few less than 30m2.
Of course never miss a real estate opportunity there…
#sydneyterracehouses
Regular facade, but look at that impossible plan!
Many lots less than 80m2, a few less than 30m2.
Of course never miss a real estate opportunity there…
#sydneyterracehouses
November 13, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Sydney’s Surry Hills has an extraordinary range of wackily shaped micro lots.
Regular facade, but look at that impossible plan!
Many lots less than 80m2, a few less than 30m2.
Of course never miss a real estate opportunity there…
#sydneyterracehouses
Regular facade, but look at that impossible plan!
Many lots less than 80m2, a few less than 30m2.
Of course never miss a real estate opportunity there…
#sydneyterracehouses
November 12, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Admiring the evening light
All yours for free in #publcsydney
All yours for free in #publcsydney
November 12, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Admiring the evening light
All yours for free in #publcsydney
All yours for free in #publcsydney
November 11, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Something new amongst the many things old;
#ianmoorearchitects The Corner Store set amongst the #sydneyterracehouses in Surry Hills.
Gleaming & pristine, so well scaled in relation to the terraces all around
#ianmoorearchitects The Corner Store set amongst the #sydneyterracehouses in Surry Hills.
Gleaming & pristine, so well scaled in relation to the terraces all around
November 11, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Something new amongst the many things old;
#ianmoorearchitects The Corner Store set amongst the #sydneyterracehouses in Surry Hills.
Gleaming & pristine, so well scaled in relation to the terraces all around
#ianmoorearchitects The Corner Store set amongst the #sydneyterracehouses in Surry Hills.
Gleaming & pristine, so well scaled in relation to the terraces all around
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Visiting an old friend;
Our wedge-shaped #studioapartments opposite Dulwich Hill station now have the fabulous #OlympicMeats at street level.
Council have improved street, metro pending, facade cleaned, neighbours still puzzlingly undeveloped, so you can still see form of our triangular site
Our wedge-shaped #studioapartments opposite Dulwich Hill station now have the fabulous #OlympicMeats at street level.
Council have improved street, metro pending, facade cleaned, neighbours still puzzlingly undeveloped, so you can still see form of our triangular site
November 9, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Visiting an old friend;
Our wedge-shaped #studioapartments opposite Dulwich Hill station now have the fabulous #OlympicMeats at street level.
Council have improved street, metro pending, facade cleaned, neighbours still puzzlingly undeveloped, so you can still see form of our triangular site
Our wedge-shaped #studioapartments opposite Dulwich Hill station now have the fabulous #OlympicMeats at street level.
Council have improved street, metro pending, facade cleaned, neighbours still puzzlingly undeveloped, so you can still see form of our triangular site
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Important to add some critical context here;
-developer is Lend Lease
-Barangaroo was all public land
-contract between NSW Govt & Lend Lease still secret…even though it’s our land
-only 2.3% of housing there ‘affordable’, but wrongly tied to market rent & not capped at 30% of income
-developer is Lend Lease
-Barangaroo was all public land
-contract between NSW Govt & Lend Lease still secret…even though it’s our land
-only 2.3% of housing there ‘affordable’, but wrongly tied to market rent & not capped at 30% of income
November 7, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Important to add some critical context here;
-developer is Lend Lease
-Barangaroo was all public land
-contract between NSW Govt & Lend Lease still secret…even though it’s our land
-only 2.3% of housing there ‘affordable’, but wrongly tied to market rent & not capped at 30% of income
-developer is Lend Lease
-Barangaroo was all public land
-contract between NSW Govt & Lend Lease still secret…even though it’s our land
-only 2.3% of housing there ‘affordable’, but wrongly tied to market rent & not capped at 30% of income
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Winning residential projects from the 2025 National Architecture Awards
Winning residential projects from the 2025 National Architecture Awards
This year’s awards recognised seventeen exceptional residential projects.
dlvr.it
November 6, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Winning residential projects from the 2025 National Architecture Awards
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Wonderful acknowledgment of the tremendous contribution of Emeritus Professor James Weirick, tonight receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award from #UrbanDesignAssociation NSW.
Whether lecturing, teaching, research, offering design review or expert evidence, advocacy & fearless criticism, a champion
Whether lecturing, teaching, research, offering design review or expert evidence, advocacy & fearless criticism, a champion
November 6, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Wonderful acknowledgment of the tremendous contribution of Emeritus Professor James Weirick, tonight receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award from #UrbanDesignAssociation NSW.
Whether lecturing, teaching, research, offering design review or expert evidence, advocacy & fearless criticism, a champion
Whether lecturing, teaching, research, offering design review or expert evidence, advocacy & fearless criticism, a champion
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8 km of retreat in just 2 months...! 😱
The fastest glacier retreat ever recorded in modern history, at Hektoria Glacier (Antarctic peninsula) 📈🔥
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Via Etienne Berthier
The fastest glacier retreat ever recorded in modern history, at Hektoria Glacier (Antarctic peninsula) 📈🔥
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Via Etienne Berthier
November 4, 2025 at 8:54 AM
8 km of retreat in just 2 months...! 😱
The fastest glacier retreat ever recorded in modern history, at Hektoria Glacier (Antarctic peninsula) 📈🔥
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Via Etienne Berthier
The fastest glacier retreat ever recorded in modern history, at Hektoria Glacier (Antarctic peninsula) 📈🔥
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Via Etienne Berthier
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Smart #woollahracouncil!
Allowing more apartments, cheaper to build, sell, rent & maintain, by limiting car parking in flood-prone centres -what’s not to like @smh?
If you want density with less cars & greater affordability, you should support this.
Just add PT
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
Allowing more apartments, cheaper to build, sell, rent & maintain, by limiting car parking in flood-prone centres -what’s not to like @smh?
If you want density with less cars & greater affordability, you should support this.
Just add PT
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
The eastern suburbs homes and the sinking feeling that has residents on edge
A surge in new developments is triggering calls for an overhaul of multistorey housing reforms in a bid to stop “building cracks” appearing in homes surrounding construction sites.
www.smh.com.au
November 3, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Smart #woollahracouncil!
Allowing more apartments, cheaper to build, sell, rent & maintain, by limiting car parking in flood-prone centres -what’s not to like @smh?
If you want density with less cars & greater affordability, you should support this.
Just add PT
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
Allowing more apartments, cheaper to build, sell, rent & maintain, by limiting car parking in flood-prone centres -what’s not to like @smh?
If you want density with less cars & greater affordability, you should support this.
Just add PT
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
Architecture is certainly work for the patient…but here part of our 1996 design for an ensemble of 18 houses (& a service station!) finally on site.
Pair of courtyard houses, open to sun. Compact & amenable, playful scale,
#missingmiddle
1998 approval had ‘commencement’ as 4 houses built
Pair of courtyard houses, open to sun. Compact & amenable, playful scale,
#missingmiddle
1998 approval had ‘commencement’ as 4 houses built
October 31, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Architecture is certainly work for the patient…but here part of our 1996 design for an ensemble of 18 houses (& a service station!) finally on site.
Pair of courtyard houses, open to sun. Compact & amenable, playful scale,
#missingmiddle
1998 approval had ‘commencement’ as 4 houses built
Pair of courtyard houses, open to sun. Compact & amenable, playful scale,
#missingmiddle
1998 approval had ‘commencement’ as 4 houses built
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we shouldn’t divide our cities like TV dinners with zoning. we should plan cities like salads and mix everything up
December 9, 2024 at 12:15 AM
we shouldn’t divide our cities like TV dinners with zoning. we should plan cities like salads and mix everything up
@emfarrelly.bsky.social spot on;
“Architecture is the most public of the arts, yet the least publicly discussed. That’s not a high bar: across the arts in general, the public conversation is unedifying at best. But in architecture, it is all but non-existent”
architectureau.com/articles/arc...
“Architecture is the most public of the arts, yet the least publicly discussed. That’s not a high bar: across the arts in general, the public conversation is unedifying at best. But in architecture, it is all but non-existent”
architectureau.com/articles/arc...
Architecture has a talk problem
Whatever public conversation there is about architecture is dominated by celebrities and enthusiasts, who “promote” it without enhancing anyone’s understanding of the difference between the good, the ...
architectureau.com
October 26, 2025 at 11:08 AM
@emfarrelly.bsky.social spot on;
“Architecture is the most public of the arts, yet the least publicly discussed. That’s not a high bar: across the arts in general, the public conversation is unedifying at best. But in architecture, it is all but non-existent”
architectureau.com/articles/arc...
“Architecture is the most public of the arts, yet the least publicly discussed. That’s not a high bar: across the arts in general, the public conversation is unedifying at best. But in architecture, it is all but non-existent”
architectureau.com/articles/arc...
Our project for the adaptation of 1903 heritage-listed Raith House approved in Campbelltown.
The beautiful verandahs on all sides will become sheltered play spaces, main rooms retained, sympathetic new wing to rear defines a courtyard for youngest to play in. Offices in max roof
#creativeadaption
The beautiful verandahs on all sides will become sheltered play spaces, main rooms retained, sympathetic new wing to rear defines a courtyard for youngest to play in. Offices in max roof
#creativeadaption
October 25, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Our project for the adaptation of 1903 heritage-listed Raith House approved in Campbelltown.
The beautiful verandahs on all sides will become sheltered play spaces, main rooms retained, sympathetic new wing to rear defines a courtyard for youngest to play in. Offices in max roof
#creativeadaption
The beautiful verandahs on all sides will become sheltered play spaces, main rooms retained, sympathetic new wing to rear defines a courtyard for youngest to play in. Offices in max roof
#creativeadaption
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Merry Christmas everyone!
This Christmas, we remember all the businesses shut down by a lack of car traffic, etcetc
This Christmas, we remember all the businesses shut down by a lack of car traffic, etcetc
October 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Merry Christmas everyone!
This Christmas, we remember all the businesses shut down by a lack of car traffic, etcetc
This Christmas, we remember all the businesses shut down by a lack of car traffic, etcetc
The architect & their building;
Jared Webb of J.AR Office explaining the delights of his newly-completed design of the hospitality venue Golden Avenue in central Brisbane.
Fantastic interlocking series of spaces, inside & outside & everything in between.
Loved the sneek peek of the operable roofs
Jared Webb of J.AR Office explaining the delights of his newly-completed design of the hospitality venue Golden Avenue in central Brisbane.
Fantastic interlocking series of spaces, inside & outside & everything in between.
Loved the sneek peek of the operable roofs
October 23, 2025 at 2:23 PM
The architect & their building;
Jared Webb of J.AR Office explaining the delights of his newly-completed design of the hospitality venue Golden Avenue in central Brisbane.
Fantastic interlocking series of spaces, inside & outside & everything in between.
Loved the sneek peek of the operable roofs
Jared Webb of J.AR Office explaining the delights of his newly-completed design of the hospitality venue Golden Avenue in central Brisbane.
Fantastic interlocking series of spaces, inside & outside & everything in between.
Loved the sneek peek of the operable roofs
Long, slender & serene
Our collaboration with #claredesign on a major apartment complex in Brisbane.
Thin section, generous double height porticos, all apartments north facing & cross ventilated, gallery access, garden apartments, refined architectural character
From archive - approved but unbuilt
Our collaboration with #claredesign on a major apartment complex in Brisbane.
Thin section, generous double height porticos, all apartments north facing & cross ventilated, gallery access, garden apartments, refined architectural character
From archive - approved but unbuilt
October 22, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Long, slender & serene
Our collaboration with #claredesign on a major apartment complex in Brisbane.
Thin section, generous double height porticos, all apartments north facing & cross ventilated, gallery access, garden apartments, refined architectural character
From archive - approved but unbuilt
Our collaboration with #claredesign on a major apartment complex in Brisbane.
Thin section, generous double height porticos, all apartments north facing & cross ventilated, gallery access, garden apartments, refined architectural character
From archive - approved but unbuilt
The brilliant GOMA gallery, spectacularly sited on the bank of the Brisbane River, looking across at city centre.
Generous civic veranda to the river, clear plan with a X of lofty circulation spaces that allow the large gallery rooms to operate independently or colllectively
#claredesign masterpiece
Generous civic veranda to the river, clear plan with a X of lofty circulation spaces that allow the large gallery rooms to operate independently or colllectively
#claredesign masterpiece
October 19, 2025 at 12:14 PM
The brilliant GOMA gallery, spectacularly sited on the bank of the Brisbane River, looking across at city centre.
Generous civic veranda to the river, clear plan with a X of lofty circulation spaces that allow the large gallery rooms to operate independently or colllectively
#claredesign masterpiece
Generous civic veranda to the river, clear plan with a X of lofty circulation spaces that allow the large gallery rooms to operate independently or colllectively
#claredesign masterpiece
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Well…school finishes and the gates are thrown open! Brilliant, clever work by BVN architects making an entirely permeable public ground plane, courts and playground available after school hours! Green Square Public School and City of Sydney 👏👏👏
October 15, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Well…school finishes and the gates are thrown open! Brilliant, clever work by BVN architects making an entirely permeable public ground plane, courts and playground available after school hours! Green Square Public School and City of Sydney 👏👏👏
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Speaking today at the Architecture Symposium in Brisbane about Lessons from the Sydney 2000 Olympics, drawing on my experience over decades working at Sydney Olympic Park.
Key lessons;
-city making
-metropolitan transport
-public space
-design quality
-legacy post Olympics
Take note Brisbane!
Key lessons;
-city making
-metropolitan transport
-public space
-design quality
-legacy post Olympics
Take note Brisbane!
October 17, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Speaking today at the Architecture Symposium in Brisbane about Lessons from the Sydney 2000 Olympics, drawing on my experience over decades working at Sydney Olympic Park.
Key lessons;
-city making
-metropolitan transport
-public space
-design quality
-legacy post Olympics
Take note Brisbane!
Key lessons;
-city making
-metropolitan transport
-public space
-design quality
-legacy post Olympics
Take note Brisbane!
Harry Seidler is best known for his iconic city towers across Aust capitals & internationally, & for affectionardos his apartment buildings & early houses.
But he & his office also built less imageable, robust, mid-rise office buildings - this one on the tough stretch of Elizabeth St Surry Hills
But he & his office also built less imageable, robust, mid-rise office buildings - this one on the tough stretch of Elizabeth St Surry Hills
October 15, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Harry Seidler is best known for his iconic city towers across Aust capitals & internationally, & for affectionardos his apartment buildings & early houses.
But he & his office also built less imageable, robust, mid-rise office buildings - this one on the tough stretch of Elizabeth St Surry Hills
But he & his office also built less imageable, robust, mid-rise office buildings - this one on the tough stretch of Elizabeth St Surry Hills
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Average new-vehicle manufacturer’s suggested retail prices hit an all-time high last month, reaching $52k, up 4.2% from last year.
(The best selling vehicle in the U.S. is a ford truck that sells for more than 65k)
All that “freedom” to be stuck in car dependency & traffic sure sounds expensive.
(The best selling vehicle in the U.S. is a ford truck that sells for more than 65k)
All that “freedom” to be stuck in car dependency & traffic sure sounds expensive.
Average U.S. New Car Prices Top $50,000 For The First Time Ever
Prices for new vehicles have risen steadily in the last year as the pace of price increases has sped up in recent months, according to Cox Automotive’s Kelley Blue Book.
www.forbes.com
October 14, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Average new-vehicle manufacturer’s suggested retail prices hit an all-time high last month, reaching $52k, up 4.2% from last year.
(The best selling vehicle in the U.S. is a ford truck that sells for more than 65k)
All that “freedom” to be stuck in car dependency & traffic sure sounds expensive.
(The best selling vehicle in the U.S. is a ford truck that sells for more than 65k)
All that “freedom” to be stuck in car dependency & traffic sure sounds expensive.
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Well done, Australia, we've eradicated another species of mammal - only 80 more threatened mammal species to go
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"Grim death, how foul and loathsome is thine image"
The Taming of the Shrew, Shakespeare
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"Grim death, how foul and loathsome is thine image"
The Taming of the Shrew, Shakespeare
October 14, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Well done, Australia, we've eradicated another species of mammal - only 80 more threatened mammal species to go
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"Grim death, how foul and loathsome is thine image"
The Taming of the Shrew, Shakespeare
bsky.app/profile/prof...
"Grim death, how foul and loathsome is thine image"
The Taming of the Shrew, Shakespeare
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Of course they could have just built of competition winning scheme (with #janeirwinlandscape & #paulberkemeier) for Barangaroo & got something even better (in exactly same place) 20 years earlier!!
Thwarted #publicsydney
Thwarted #publicsydney
October 12, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Of course they could have just built of competition winning scheme (with #janeirwinlandscape & #paulberkemeier) for Barangaroo & got something even better (in exactly same place) 20 years earlier!!
Thwarted #publicsydney
Thwarted #publicsydney