Talking Architecture & Design

The City of Sydney's resident architect-councillor HY William Chan leads at the helm of the city’s urban planning, heritage, transport, and environment. The Forbes '30 Under 30' innovator is the Head of Delegation to the UN COP climate negotiations for Sydney and the co-founder of Climate Action Week Sydney.

William is a registered architect, advocate for design excellence, and a sustainability and housing rights leader.   

With experience in the design and innovation of cities, William has contributed to Sydney’s most significant public space, social housing, rapid transit, infrastructure, and community developments over the past decade. His work has won numerous industry awards including from the Australian Institute of Architects and Good Design Australia.

In this exclusive interview, William outlines his ideas on making Sydney an even better city than it already is.

Anna Fox is an Associate Principal and architect at STH and Stuart Turk is a Clinical Health Planner with STH.

The both work predominately within healthcare architecture, including acute hospitals, rehabilitation, mental health and aged care, and are inspired by a desire to create spaces to better support healing and enhance human experiences.

In this interview, they talk about new ways to manage noise control within health care design.

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Rory Hunter is an entrepreneur, founder and CEO of multiple award-winning, sustainable property companies across Australia and South-East Asia. 

He brings a planet-conscious and people-centred approach to projects including his latest venture - MODEL, which he founded in 2022 and presently steers as CEO.

MODEL is a new, Australian build-to-rent (BTR) group with a purpose to cultivate places where there is no compromise between taking care of ourselves, each other, and the planet. 

Built on the pillars of climate action, community building and design innovation, MODEL delivers thoughtfully designed, secure, connected, carbon neutral homes where health and wellbeing are at the core of the everyday experience.

In this interview, Rory explains his unique concept of the idea of BTR and its place in helping solve Australia's housing crisis.

A commercial architect with 20 years of international and local experience across institutional, commercial, retail, serviced apartment and residential projects, Jeff Morgan creates an environment of learning and collaboration that inspires those around him to do their best work.

 Jeff leads the charge on sustainability in the Sydney studio and contributes to Hassell’s global sustainability strategy and industry groups. He has an unwavering focus on embedding market-leading sustainable initiatives into his projects.

 Some of his Key projects include:

•      The Lands Building, Sydney, Australia
•      Affinity Place, Sydney, Australia
•      First Building Wianamatta, Sydney, Australia
•      55 Pitt Street, Sydney, Australia

 
In this interview, Jeff talks about Low Carbon Aluminium – what is it, how is it made and why it's important to the built environment.

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Head of Design, Australia, at Unispace, Ian Worthy has helped to transform over 25 workplaces across the Asia Pacific region.

He holds over 30 years’ of in-depth knowledge and experience in workplace transformation. Much of Ian’s project work has focused on multi-site accommodation strategies supported by design-based change management programs.

He explains where the workspace and workspace design are heading as we enter the 2nd half of the 2020s.

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Trivess Moore is an Associate Professor in the School of Property, Construction and Project Management at RMIT. He is also Associate Director of the Sustainable Building Innovation Laboratory and co-chair of the Fuel Poverty Research Network.

Currently, he is working on several projects which are based upon monitoring and evaluating sustainable housing and compact cities more broadly. He has also co-authored: 'A Transition to Sustainable Housing'.

Moore explains how to unlock barriers to cost-effective carbon reduction opportunities in our dwellings, and how we can empower the design community as well as authorities to facilitate the widespread adoption of low carbon housing design to lower Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions targets while maintaining industry competitiveness and improving our quality of life.

But what is the best and fastest way to get there?

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Adam Haddow has been a director at well-known architecture firm SJB since 2002. Adam is a Churchill Fellow who is known for his study of alternatives to conventional models of urban design. 

As NSW Chapter President of the Australian Institute of Architects, Adam leads the Institute in its mission to promote excellence in architecture and advocates for the role of architects in shaping the built environment. 

He is also the National President Elect of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects.

He talks exclusively with Talking Architecture & Design on a range of subjects including his view on the future of the arch/design profession. 

With 18 years’ experience working across health, science, education and research projects at BVN, Conor Larkins will head up HDR’s health sector and work with directors to elevate the practice’s design rigour and deliver human-centred facilities. 

 Larkins has worked across many of Australia’s most significant health precincts, including Prince of Wales Acute Services Building, the Lang Walker AO Medical Research Building, Nepean Hospital Redevelopment, Royal North Shore Hospital, and Northside Hospital in Canberra. 

In this exclusive interview, we talk about how designers prioritize resilience in healthcare design, and how to enable facilities to readily respond to disruptions, big and small, and adapt as needs evolve.

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Immigration is a driver of GDP and a solution to Australia’s declining birth rate, but as housing pressures mount, polls showing strong support for reduced intake could force the government into a debate on population growth," says Mike Secombe writing in the Saturday Paper.

"The high pace of immigration is not compatible with the level of housing supply that we have in this country. We're just not building enough homes to keep up with our population growth," AMP deputy chief economist Diana Mousina said late last year to the ABC.

However some people think that this is not the main issue that’s causing our house prices and rentals woes.

 One of those is Tone Wheeler, regular A & D columnist, and a director at Environa Studio who is also a passionate advocate for environmental architecture. 

Tone has taught at universities for thirty years, served on boards and appeared regularly on television and radio.

We recently sat down with him to talk about what he thinks is the reason behind our housing affordability crisis.

Eilish Barry, a project leader at Hayball, found her passion for architecture through a pivotal conversation with a family friend who emphasised the profound impact architects have on shaping the built environment. 

This inspiration has guided her professional journey, predominantly focused on social infrastructure projects aimed at enhancing communities. 

Eilish’s work showcases a commitment to designing for both social and environmental wellbeing, incorporating considerations such as local materials, communal spaces and support for local labour opportunities. 

Through these endeavours, she explains what she has witnessed and how the tangible value of good design for communities is universal.

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