No matter what shade of lipstick, @apple, it's still just a greedy grab for a chunk of Melbourne's most high profile public space architectureau.com/articles/feder… #FedSquareNOTAppleSquare

“Public space should not be managed as a business” Apple is out of Fed Square. For now. Citizens for Melbourne explain the issues, as well as possibilities for the future... Fed Square tania davidge Red+Black Architect James Lesh #FedSquare @HeritageVic foreground.com.au/public-domain/…

Nightingale Village in Melbourne’s inner north is using the power of the collective to pioneer a potent new model of #SustainableDevelopment. #neighborhood @NightingaleAus @morelandcouncil foreground.com.au/planning/melbo…

I went on a deep dive editing this fantastic, free-ranging interview between landscape architect Gunther Vogt & Foreground foreground.com.au/cities/gunther… one memorable discovery? Ladakh has infrastructural ice 'stupas'...

European plazas are becoming increasingly less comfortable places as summer temperatures soar, prompting Gunther Vogt to say "This is interesting for me: aside from climate change, what is the cultural change?" #landscapearchitect foreground.com.au/cities/gunther…

"Just like Yencken’s Greening of Swanston, there will always be debate about what makes good public space. And that is exactly why we need more radical ideas for our cities" foreground.com.au/public-domain/… Landscape Architects @msdsocial Future Park ideas competition yields some good crazy

Stripes & folds! A huge pleasure working with ⁦RMIT University⁩ & ⁦@okinterrupt⁩ on this book on the influence of Edmond & Corrigan on Australia’s architectural culture. Hardback out now through ⁦Uro Publications⁩ in a limited edition uropublications.com/collections/bo…

Rudofsky gave us architecture without architects, Julia Watson gives us infrastructure without engineers foreground.com.au/culture/julia-… I thoroughly enjoyed talking with Watson for Foreground about this hopeful, quietly radical book

What happens when living heritage becomes dead wood? foreground.com.au/planning/robin… Thank you to the Robin Boyd Foundation for sharing with me their efforts to give a 'significant tree' a suitable send-off (& to find a suitable replacement!)

Gothic cathedral meets... mega-mall? architectsjournal.co.uk/buildings/buil… I visited the new Make Architects addition to Chaddy back in April for this Architects’ Journal review. I never thought I'd feel nostalgic for a shopping centre, but here we are...

On the outskirts of Brisbane, an urban drain takes on a life of its own foreground.com.au/parks-places/o… living, breathing hydrological infrastructure that can change shape over time, in the middle of the burbs. Truly remarkable stuff from @Landscapology Alan Hoban & Ipswich City Council

Forgotten histories, missing people library.mpavilion.org/living-cities-… The first in the Living Cities podcast series that Andrew Mackenzie & I are hosting for my pavilion explores the visible & invisible legacies of colonialism (& outright racism) permeating our cities

I had a great chat last Friday with author Penny Craswell about her fantastic new book Design Lives Here, which captures Australian design objects right at home, in Australian architecture & interiors! Watch the video of the interview online here: uropublications.com/blogs/news/wat…

The formerly fusty The New York Times looks like it might not only survive, but thrive, in the digital media space wired.com/2017/02/new-yo…

Artist Stephen Wiltshire draws a bird's eye panorama of Mexico City after 1 afternoon’s viewing & 5 days of drawing news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/04/autism…

Perry Lethlean on Episodic Urbanism - a testament to Peter Elliott's "mastery of the architecture of public space" architectureau.com/articles/episo…

Wow: 'Gaudí's first built house set to open to public for first time' -Spain calling (even more loudly than usual) dezeen.com/2017/05/25/ant…

To make cities that work for children, we’ll have to overcome our culture of fear foreground.com.au/cities/make-ci…

In Tasmania, Playstreet is bringing child-life back to urban wilderness foreground.com.au/public-domain/…

“Designers must be accountable & state clearly what & who they are fighting for” - Pierre Bélanger foreground.com.au/culture/pierre…