Following a commitment at the 2016 election, the ACT government abolished the Land Development Agency and replaced it with two agencies, the Suburban Land Agency (that sells land) and the City Renewal Authority.
Continue reading the failed City Renewal Authority experiment
What is the ACT Government’s attitude to good architecture and good landscape design? That’s easy. It does not consider such things important.
A new year and already the look, the aesthetics, and the whole nature of what will be the new Northbourne Ave gateway to the National Capital is up for discussion.
Back in 2013 plans were announced for the next stage of Canberra’s Constitution Avenue.
Our lust for originality is wrecking the city, delivering a rash of formally new but ultimately anti-urban hideous skyline baubles reducing city-making to a spectacle of super-size billboard branding gestures while inhibiting the multiplication of good ideas. Click here
Good article by Miguel Córdova Ramírez on the teaching of architecture.
If there is one occupation that I could not imagine doing, it is being an ACT Government planner who spends most of the day looking through development applications (DA) for commercial developments.
GANG GANG arrives in Downer
Always good to celebrate when a suburban centre rises again.
Interesting read – but I think they let the architects off too easily. Click here.
Talking to locals in the last weeks there were stories of that knock on the door and the offer to buy the house. The reactions were a little different and also similar.
Sad story from Manchester. Lesson? – watch out for the spin when developments are announced. click here
Do we have examples of good residential architecture in Canberra?
A wonderful sign of things to come.
About the architecture along Northbourne Avenue
The local press has done its usual things and come on board with the government and the developers to spruik the imminent construction of buildings in the centre of Canberra.
2017 in Canberra began with announcements that so many new buildings are about to change the city’s landscape.
Continue reading Good architecture arrives in Canberra–we wish
They have tried before and have failed–but this time they have got their way.
Click on the image for the story about the Arts District development along L.A. River
Grace Mortlock, University of Technology Sydney and David Neustein, University of Technology Sydney; republish from The Conversation
They have tried before and I am sure they will keep trying till they get their way.
click on image for story
Canberra is usually referred to as being a designed and/or planned city. Continue reading Government Architect – what’s that?
more on the debate around those horrible tall buildings – click on the above banner
