Tone Wheeler
Tone Wheeler is president of the Australian Architecture Association and the design director of environa studio, which specialises in social and sustainable architecture.
Opinion
Housing crisis
Why the cookie-cutter can’t solve Sydney’s housing crisis
Creating templated homes will degrade the suburbs further and leave councils and communities furious.
- by Tone Wheeler
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Construction
Prefab or pre-drab? The pros and cons of factory-made houses
If a factory-made house or apartment is better in so many ways than traditional building on muddy sites with variable weather, why the low take-up?
- by Tone Wheeler
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Property development
Nice idea, Albo, but populating Parramatta Road will be a nightmare
Take it from one who’s tried: getting approval to build shop-top housing on this busy road is a costly process, frustrated at almost every turn.
- by Tone Wheeler
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Australian economy
The Greens could seize control on housing, and the PM didn’t see it coming
Australia is now less binary, more ternary, which bodes ill for our political duopoly if they continue to get it wrong on housing.
- by Tone Wheeler
Opinion
Public housing
The PM grew up in social housing. His future fund won’t help those still there
Based on what it has proposed to date, it seems social housing is not a priority for the federal Labor Party.
- by Tone Wheeler
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Development
Melbourne’s density is lower than Los Angeles’ – we must halt the fringe creep
A new report offers welcome solutions to Melbourne’s housing crisis, but it focuses on housing families when our demographics have changed dramatically.
- by Tone Wheeler
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Development
To save suburbia, we’ll need to destroy much of it
Can we reimagine suburbia? We must, to save it from itself, so let’s make this our Battle for the Burbs.
- by Tone Wheeler
Opinion
Development
How we’ve ruined suburbia: homes twice as big on blocks half the size
In the new suburbia, Australians live cheek by jowl with little room for trees, cross-ventilation or sunlight.
- by Tone Wheeler