The mind boggles when you understand how many homes are vacant globally

42 million in the OECD alone!!!

For context, there are around 30 million homes in the whole of the UK

25% of apartment dwellers in NSW are families with children

But in some areas only 6-10% of apartments available are 3-bedrooms

We need family-friendly apartments and high density neighbourhoods if everyone is to have access to the compact city

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Unflued heaters, which are banned in other states, are still present in 1402 public schools in NSW

Exposure to unflued gas heaters is associated with increased reports of coughing in the evening and wheezing in the morning

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Maybe we could do housing first?

This is very good

Rammed earth and timber composite floor slabs, in the HORTUS building in Allschwil

A truly remarkable low-carbon innovation by Erden, in collaboration with Blumer Lehmann and Herzog & de Meuron

In fact it reminds of Elemental’s infill housing in Chile where the gaps left were designed to be filled in with additional rooms as families grow

Did they plan to build terraces, but ran out of money so took half the houses away?

Robust and repeated research shows higher density living results in lower lifecycle carbon emissions than single detached houses.

These graphs from 2006 (!!!) compare 15 storey apartments with detached homes in Toronto (Normal et al.)

Before After

How we should treat our aging public housing.

Upgrade to create 130 apartments and 120 social housing units, plus a rooftop restaurant in Lille. By JBA Architects.

Who wants an apartment with 2 bedrooms and *3* bathrooms?

Congratulations to Philip Thalis - an architect and educator of enormous integrity

Not only designed by my good friends Julia Barfield and the late David Marks but conceived and developed by them too. Creating this icon from nothing was simply extraordinary, including land consents, finance and the rest.

That our homes are inextricably linked to our health is not new

“One might have imagined that science and common sense would by now have appreciated the importance of such considerations” reads a letter on housing and health in The Lancet, 1922

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What over 100 affordable apartments in a mass timber building looks like

By Access Architecture, in Portland

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The photos are by Hanno Mackowitz, with more on this outlined by Erden here

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One of the apparent benefits of 'The Line' was that it's compact shape preserves the existing land

Now the BBC reports that whole villages were cleared to allow for it's construction, with 'lethal force' permitted

Before / After

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Rammed earth and timber composite floor slabs, in the HORTUS building in Allschwil

A truly remarkable low-carbon innovation by Erden, in collaboration with Blumer Lehmann and Herzog & de Meuron