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Podcast: Designer blocks and Broadway shocks

  • 21/11/2023
  • Author Jimmy-T

In this week’s Flat Chat Wrap we talk about the proposal to introduce architectural pattern books in NSW. Will they mean even more cookie-cutter apartment blocks or will  it simply…

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    Architect anger, developer delight at planning backflip

    • 05/04/2022
    • Author Jimmy-T

    NSW architects have slammed the state government’s backflip on proposals to compel developers to include sustainable elements in new designs and steer clear of flood and bush-fire susceptible areas, labelling…

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      Flat Chat Wrap #31 – Tip of the defects iceberg and why it’s such a massive problem

      • 09/07/2019
      • Author Jimmy-T

      In this week’s episode of the Flat Chat Wrap we look at the revelation that the Opal and Mascot towers “disasters” are just the tip of a very large apartment…

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