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Minimalism has been a popular website design style for years. It has so many benefits; minimalist sites load faster, take fewer server resources, and are often faster to develop than more graphically complicated designs. Plus, they give a professional, clean impression to visitors. Many people still view minimalist designs as boring. But there's a real art to effective minimal website designs, something not all designers can effectively master. When you limit the number of graphic elements you use and put…

“Fifty years after its first publication, Robin Boyd's bestselling The Australian Ugliness remains the definitive statement on how we live and think in the environments we create for ourselves.

Boyd was a fierce critic, and an advocate of good design. He understood the significance of the connection between people and their dwellings, and argued passionately for a national architecture forged from a genuine Australian identity. His concerns are as important now, in an era of suburban sprawl and inner-city redevelopment, as they were half a century ago.

Caustic and brilliant, The Australian Ugliness is a masterpiece that enables us to see our surroundings with fresh eyes.”

In 1960, when Robin Boyd published his attack on the stylistic cowardice of our suburbs, it took courage to call Australia ugly. The country has never bragged about its beauty, as America loudly does in the hymn that celebrates its azure skies and shining seas and fields of waving grain, but the national spirit inculcated a smug self-satisfaction in the Australians of those days, enforced by their distance from and ignorance of worlds elsewhere.

“Suburbia is not just home for most Australians: it is the primary domain of social exchange, cultural relations and political discourse. In his influential 1960 book Australian Ugliness, Robin Boyd equated the brick-veneer suburban house with the nation’s racist White Australiapolicy. More recently, Pritzker Prize-winning architect Glenn Murcutt claimed that suburban houses are “not architecture.” But if the language of the McMansion is merely a veneer, shouldn’t Australian architects see right through it?”

In the classic film The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy and friends manage to obtain a visit with the great and powerful wizard, who appears to them as an...

Have we lost the art of building communities? We asked urban design expert Stefan Kruczkowski to explain the most common problems that blight modern suburbia. Do you recognise them?

#housing network #community building #development #sustainable housing #practice

Next time you drive through a suburban street or any country town shut your eyes for a moment and try to imagine the dreams of the people who built that house. Houses are envelopes for our desires and…

While we idealise the middle as presented to us through the media, the reality is Australians are far more affluent than they want to admit.

#conformity

The Courier Mail reported the death of a son and his elderly mother in their Brisbane home earlier this month under the headline “Left to die a lonely death in the suburbs”. Their bodies were not discovered for at least a week. The paper said that “at some point before Mark Thomas died in his …

#terry flew

In spite of what everyone believes through natural pride and vanity, the family house is an asset that depreciates. Don’t be deceived that the value of property goes up and up, which of course it does…

Beyond Struggle Street is a band of working poor across Sydney. And the gap between them and the rich is getting wider.

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A little observation from this weekend…

Hamburgers versus Cheeseburgers… What the hell is going on with kids nowadays that they make such a clear distinction between what is basically the same damn food except one contains a solitary slice of cheese and one does not? When offered a hamburger at a cookout more than a couple times this summer I have heard more than one kid say, “I won’t eat a hamburger but I will eat a cheeseburger.” It’s a goddamn slice of cheese!! So you’re telling me that your juvenile taste buds have advanced so well that a hamburger and a bun slathered in mustard and ketchup needs that stupid-ass sliver of cheese to make it palatable? And we’re not talking about a cheese with a pronounced taste, there’s no cheddar, swiss, feta or Roquefort between the potato rolls but a goddamn slice of synthetic virtually flavorless American cheese! I know that there is a deeper issue here that I don’t have the time to explore but it’s time for those manning the grills to put their long-handled spatula down and declare, “I’m making hamburgers and you’ll eat the damn things! If you want cheese put it on your damn self!” Or better yet it’s time that we start layering our burgers with a healthy slab of pungent aged Gouda and see how long it takes before the kids are crying out for a plain hamburger.

As a public commentator on suburban sprawl issues I've been engaged in a low-grade war of ideas with the environmental community. The fiasco of suburbia, s

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#suburbia alkimos

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