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Founding Principal_Kerstin Thompson Architects; 2023AIA Gold Medallist; AM; Adjunct Prof of Architecture RMIT & Monash Universities. Melbourne, Australia. Architecture, Landscape, Ecology, Cities. projects @kerstin_thompson_architects & @more_kta on IG
Bracing #abc program on housing & homelessness, focusing especially on the vulnerable group of women over 50. Too many sleeping in cars, in vans, abandoned buildingsβ¦
Such a need for crisis housing, for long term structural solutions.
In such a rich country as Aust, no one should be homeless
From its cracker opening lines onwards Martin McKenzie-Murrayβs piece βBrand of dopesβ vaingloryβ in todayβs @SatPaper is a superb reflection on test cricket. Read it and laugh (or weep depending on your side). #Ashes2025
29.11.2025 05:42 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Catherine McGregorβs beautiful, poignant piece that overlaps her personal history with a nationβs one. Superb writing. @SatPaper
t.co/tu59ovFnM6
βI hit the deadline and I couldnβt spend any longer fucking things upβ _ Brian Eno
04.10.2025 00:08 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Essential read on D&C.
βHow can any architect in their right mind claim to know whatβs been installed on a building when others routinely change specification without regard to the documentation setting out what needs to be done?β
@russellcurtis
www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/opinion...
βYou give space to the listener - he can go inside and live there.β
Beautiful observation by Bjork during her interview of Arvo PΓ€rt in 1997.
#arvopΓ€rt
Canβt understand why the Australian Parliament begins each term with a church service. How is this appropriate for the multicultural community it supposedly represents?
21.07.2025 23:06 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
Never enough womenβs toilets. Meanwhile menβs emptyβ¦the sooner we go all gender the better. #melbourneairport #allgendertoilets
13.07.2025 22:14 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
On close readingβ¦
βAs you read, a line might hit you. You feel struck. You pause. Hereβs where close reading happens. Hold up. Linger with that line. Read it again, a few more times. What gives it its force here in its immediate moment? Work out its power.β
defector.com/close-readin...
Architecture best incentive for increased step count
17.05.2025 22:11 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Fascinating trip
17.05.2025 22:06 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0How about a βgreat government of alliesβ?
Excellent thinking here from #richardflanagan
Interesting density stat from The Conversation. Worth a read.
theconversation.com/victorias-pl...
Can you share example of housing types in typical mid suburb density in Toronto? Interested
12.05.2025 09:55 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
βIf Melbourneβs middle suburbs β those between two and 20 kilometres from the CBD β were as dense as those of Toronto, that increase in density alone could accommodate all of the 800,000 extra homes the state government plans to build over the next decade.β
theconversation.com/victorias-pl...
That finest of mountains
11.05.2025 08:20 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0βThe lost art of neighboringβ
Savannah Fishel discussing intergenerational & communal living on #lifematters @abcnewsbot.bsky.social
βListening to the student voice to learn about thriving in vertic(all) schoolsβ
What a great workshop full of insights - & videos - from an impressive range of students & principals too.
Hosted by Prof Jill Willis
&
Dr Jenna Gillett-Swan
#LEAConference
#2025Odyssey
#LEA
Tonight on @SBS
Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes.
Interesting timing..
#Auspol2025
It should be easy to obtain a planning permit for a new house such as this, regardless of heritage overlay. When heritage drives the design of new buildings we risk poor patterns being replicated. Better to thoughtfully reconfigure to reflect todayβs living/amenity expectations.
27.04.2025 07:12 β π 20 π 6 π¬ 2 π 0
Says The Australian.
Love the irony.
Bandaids rather than wider reform of the major issues facing the nation - climate, housing, inequity etc - apparently enough to retain government because there is no competition.
The serious problem of no serious opposition.
www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
And therefore the need of architects to extend their design services to policy including standards.
15.03.2025 08:00 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Agree
15.03.2025 07:57 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Stupid.
Isnβt the purpose of an Aus standard to set out specifications to help make products/services safe & reliable?
Why then accommodate vehicles that increase injury to pedestrians & cyclists?
Increase applicable tax not space for these beasts that btw kill streets too.
βTradition is not something that is received as a legacy, but rather something that is built everyday.β - Gae Aulenti
Aulentiβs adaptive re-use projects are more and more pertinent to our everyday.
Eg her masterful transformation of railway station to Musee DβOrsay.
Iβm thinking especially of shop tops and other commercial spaces that are well located for housing too.
09.03.2025 21:14 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
House Australia too.
Make Melbourne a City of βYesβ. Balance risk & opportunity to ease adaption of existing buildings to house people.
BVN hosted a terrific session last week at MPavilion - #citiesofyes - around just such possibilities.
www.houseeurope.eu/19-join-now
A 9 storey wedge shaped, modernist apartment block from 1963 in Wellington New Zealand by Architects Lewis Martin and George Porter.
A 9 storey wedge shaped, modernist apartment block from 1963 in Wellington New Zealand by Architects Lewis Martin and George Porter.
Clifton Towers. 1963.
A wedge shaped block of 9 apartments by Architects Lewis Martin and George Porter.
One of several excellent towers along Oriental Parade in Wellington, NZ.
Almost there:
144 new dwellings in North Richmond for Homes Victoria.
Architect designed for high amenity, high performance, safe, secure, accessible & modern public housing.
1, 2 and 3 bedrooms.
We hope it offers a welcome & inclusive homecoming to residents, reflective of this community.
