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Seeing the light: Victoria’s draft apartment standards released

Posted on August 15, 2016 by

After many months of speculation, the Victorian Government has finally released a draft of the minimum apartment standards. The standards are a compromise but none the less a welcome step in the right direction. The big headline from Sunday’s announcement, … Continue reading →

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Victoria’s Push for Better Apartments (Part 2)

Posted on July 1, 2015 by

Victoria is currently undergoing a substantial consultation process targeted at improving the design quality of apartments being built across the state. Part 1 of this post discussed the main aspects of the Better Apartments discussion paper released by the state government. … Continue reading →

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Apartment Design Standards Q+A

Posted on April 23, 2015 by

In response to the first research findings from the Rate My Building project, journalist Nathan Johnson from Architecture & Design, sent through some questions relating to minimum apartment design standards which have been much talked about since they were leaked … Continue reading →

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2014 Retrospective

Posted on December 19, 2014 by

2014 has been a watershed year for many reasons. Across the year on The Red and Black Architect, there have been 33 posts covering a broad range of issues and events and of course buildings. There have been well over … Continue reading →

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Evidence Based Design

Posted on October 7, 2014 by

Architects are in the business of imagining our future buildings. They are trained to think laterally in order to come up with different solutions to various building problems. Over time these creative and at times wildly different solutions get adopted … Continue reading →

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