Architecture news

• From social housing to $1.5m for a studio: minister hits out at ‘dud deal’ sale of Sydney’s Sirius building

  16-06-2024 17:00
  
  Exclusive: Rose Jackson says losing public housing in expensive central suburbs leaves society worse off, and this week’s state budget will address issueGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastA decade ago the only way to secure a bed in Sydney’s brutalist icon, the Sirius building, was a proven need and time on the social housing waitlist. Now the price of admission starts at $1.55m – for a studio apartment.The last of the 76 apartments in the
  
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• Green space could be even better for young brains than we realised

  16-06-2024 14:00
  
  Science on specific benefits for children’s behaviour and thinking is catching up with established wellbeing claimsRevealed: private schools have 10 times more green space than state schoolsHow England’s top private schools came to own 38,000 acres of landBeagling, golf and jolly hockey sticks: outdoor life at England’s largest private schoolsThe public schools are on to something when they usher their students out of the classroom and into fresh air.Exposure to green space red
  
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• Architect David Chipperfield: ‘We used to know what progress was. Now we’re not so sure’

  16-06-2024 12:00
  
  He’s renowned for big-budget museums and galleries. But the architect’s long-term project in Galicia, northern Spain is all about fundamental, low-key ways to change communities for the better“We find ourselves doing workshops on seaweed growth,” says David Chipperfield, the much-honoured and acclaimed British architect, and “there are moments when you’re thinking: ‘Remind me, what has this got to do with architecture? What am I doing here?’”
  
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