Emil Otto Hoppé. The Canal. Manchester. 1925.

Newcastle Port now closed to coal ships! Wish we had drone footage of 5 Nannas in a tinny breaching 100m exclusion zone in an ‘exciting back &forth with police boats’. (Observers report). No arrests. Harbour authorities closed the port to coal ships. @risingtideaus.bsky.social

The Sydney Opera House in 6 easy pieces! Discover the city as you have never seen it - get your #publicsydneypuzzle for this holiday season at #Uro Bookshops, #kinokuniya or on line

So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout.

Big Oil raked in record-breaking profits. The companies that caused the climate crisis are getting rich as they fuel the fire. @ExxonMobil: $55.7 billion @Shell: $39.87 billion @Chevron: $35.5 billion @BP_plc: $27.7 billion No time to wait. #ActOnClimate #panelsnotpipelines #cdnpoli

Combining public transport with active transport makes for a healthy city full of healthier citizens!

Today is World Sustainable Transport Day! Public transport can help reduce emissions, noise pollution, air pollution, and more. And the more the service is upgraded, the more people will use it.🚉🚌🚋🚆

Mid rise apartment pattern release entirely illustrated by renders instead of architectural plans in a press release on an architectural website. And we wonder why architects are typecast as cosmetic curators rather than as fundamental to housing liveability and performance…🤯

Must read article by @emfarrelly.bsky.social on the outrageous, undemocratic recent changes to NSW Planning Act. Premier Minns in pocket of the worst urgera & profiteers, environmental vandals & developers. This analysis ignored by MSM, sucked in by press release architectureau.com/articles/pro...

The lower of the interior streets of majestic Jones Bay Wharf in Pyrmont, with its dramatic toplights & open vistas to the harbour. Built by the engineers of the #Sydneyharbourtrust c1920 under Chief Engineer #hdwalsh, it was the last of the great finger wharves they built. #publicsydney

AI perfectly manufactured for real estate rubbish…

Good for you. My @smh @theage cartoon.

The cost. My @smh @theage cartoon.

What started as a new office entry - matching in size & scale our #publicsydney drawing with Nolli’s famous 1748 Plan of Rome. Perfect for a design office! So during COVID we turned our drawing into #publicsydneypuzzle - get yours this Christmas #KinokuniyaAust & #Urobookshops 1/2

Design of a substation to look like a house, complete with front landscaped setback & side garden. Wallis St Woollahra Suburban infrastructural #publicsydney

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

Late afternoon sunlight through the trees #centennialpark #publicsydney

Admiring the evening light All yours for free in #publcsydney

Late afternoon sunlight through the trees #centennialpark #publicsydney

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

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

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

Winning residential projects from the 2025 National Architecture Awards

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

Merry Christmas everyone! 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

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

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

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 👏👏👏

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!

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

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.

Well done, Australia, we've eradicated another species of mammal - only 80 more threatened mammal species to go bsky.app/profile/prof... "Grim death, how foul and loathsome is thine image" The Taming of the Shrew, Shakespeare

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

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Shading the streets so important to help combat urban heat. Every city needs a street tree master plan - plant them wherever they shade the footpaths & especially the asphalt roadway. Good in nature strips, but best in parking lanes or medians

Ah Barangaroo … One of the rare successes there is the stone-lined harbour pool - created by enlightened community advocacy & action. But the fenced car park beside remains such a blight & lost opportunity. More #publicsydney please! www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

The exquisite banded sandstone detailing of the base of the Chief Secretary’s Building on Bridge St in Sydney. Designed by NSW Colonial Architect #JamesBarnet in 1870’s A jewel of #publicsydney

Up close to the multi-coloured battened screen of our Campbelltown Commuter Carpark. This is the main entry & primary facade facing across the station to the centre of Campbelltown. 4 screened stairs, yellow inside, anchor the corners. How to give functional buildings a civic character #publicsydney

Mike Hewson’s The Key is Under the Mat - occupying the Tank at AGNSW for the next year - water, play, steam, sauna, bbq…in the gallery…

Yet again, so limited view of economists on city making. No mention of; -huge stock of approved but unbuilt projects -existing capacity available -acute public & affordable housing shortfalls Bank-imposed restrictions Some of us critical of retardant planning for decades, but it’s all much harder

Delighted to be featured in this starter pack, and in such great company - including some friends I didn’t even know had joined 🦋 Thanks @brenttoderian.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/bren...

Enjoying a suburban outlook!

A provocation at a lecture last week - to think about how to be more aware of Country. You don’t necessarily need to head bush! A walk in my fairly dense, inner urban area reveals an extraordinary urban family…tallowwoods, lacebarks and melaleucas. Streets are for trees…they will keep us alive.