Episode 241: Tackling urban density, rediscovering the beauty of 1960s walk-up unit blocks & remembering Mulholland Drive with Tone Wheeler| Listen on Anghami

Aug 17

Episode 309: Renee Gigliotti, Associate Director at The Studio Collaborative* on transforming the hospitality spaces at Afterpay Arena

In this episode, we're talking with Renee Gigliotti, Associate Director at The Studio Collaborative* at how thoughtful interior architecture can transform not just a venue, but the entire visitor experience. Australia's major entertainment venues are increasingly becoming destina ... Show More

18m 6s

Aug 10

Episode 308: Associate Professor Andrea Sharam from RMIT University on why Australia's housing boom-and-bust cycle is holding back new homes

Australia is facing one of its biggest housing challenges in decades, with the federal government's National Housing Accord aiming to deliver 1.2 million new homes by 2029. But what if the biggest obstacle isn't planning approvals, land supply, or even skills shortages? A major n ... Show More

30m 43s

Aug 3

Episode 307: Airport lounge design: Creating the best passenger experience beyond the terminal with Hassell duo Joanna Ho, interior designer and Rosie Morley, Principal

For decades, airport lounges were viewed simply as waiting rooms for premium travellers. Today, they're something much more sophisticated—extensions of airline brands, wellness spaces, workplaces, hospitality venues and, increasingly, destinations in their own right.But what actu ... Show More

39m 51s

Jul 2022

Architecture and City Living

In this episode we discuss living in cities through examples of the different buildings and spaces built and occupied in London since the second world war.  Our contributors are: John Boughton is a social historian whose book Municipal Dreams: the Rise and F ... Show More

52m 6s

Jul 2022

The rise of boring architecture -- and the case for radically human buildings | Thomas Heatherwick

Where did all the lumps and bumps on buildings go? When did city architecture become so ... dull? Here to talk about why cities need inspiring architecture, designer Thomas Heatherwick offers us a visually stimulating path out of the doldrums of urban monotony -- so cities are fi ... Show More

15m 26s

Sep 2025

237: Is demolition the biggest mistake in architecture? | Anne-Marie Galmstrup & Enlai Hooi

This week, I’m joined by Anne-Marie Galmstrup, architect and Obel Award jury member, and Enlai Hooi, Head of Innovation at Schmidt Hammer Lassen and part of House Europe. They share a visionary yet practical take on how retrofitting, not tearing down, can reshape Europe’s urban f ... Show More

42m 25s

Jun 2019

EP. 08 - THE HOUSING CRISIS - With Kate Macintosh & Peter Barber

In this episode we talk to acclaimed architects Kate Macintosh and Peter Barber about housing. In the UK, a whole generation have been priced out of owning or renting high quality homes to live in. This is especially the case in large cities, with London being the most extreme ca ... Show More

1h 14m

Mar 2018

33 — Le Corbusier — 7 — Early Mass Housing

In this episode we explore in two early schemes for mass housing, at Pessac and in Stuttgart. Among many other things, we talked about — Bourneville New Lanark - Arnold circus - Bruno taut’s horseshoe estate - Pessac - Henri Frugès - The Weissenhofseidlung - Margarete Schutte-Lih ... Show More

1 h

Feb 2023

#329 - The Livability of Designer Homes

This week David and Marina of <a href= "https://www.famearchitects.com/">FAME Architecture & Design</a> discuss the livability of designer homes. The two cover designing for function and aesthetics, material resilience, lifestyle changes, space efficiency, designing based on r ... Show More

43m 17s

Feb 2019

EP. 05 - HAPPY CITY - Architecture & The Science of Happiness

This episode tackles the big issue of happiness in urban design and architecture, in a discussion with award winning writer and urbanist Charles Montgomery. We talk about what makes people happy in relation to the places we live and what makes us unhappy in our environment. We lo ... Show More

1h 16m

Jan 2023

#321 - After Hours: Old Clothing and Open Floor Plans

This week David and Marina have a casual chat about old clothing; the value (and limitations) of open floor plans in homes (11:00); the idea of thresholds in space making; the downsides to designing houses for resale value (30:40); designing great housing that is expensive and ... Show More

1h 28m

Jun 2021

103. Navigating the Skins of the Earth with Raoul Bunschoten

How might we navigate and negotiate the skins of the Earth in the face of climate change? What can Byzantine architecture and Plato's Khôra teach us about urban living in the 21st Century? What is the role of the architect in current cultural production? This week, we have a fasc ... Show More

1h 11m

May 2020

S2EP. 03 - TRANSITION BY DESIGN - Meanwhile Use & Alternative Architecture Practice

What is meanwhile use architecture? In this episode I talk to two members of the co-operative Transition By Design, Katie Reilly and Lucy Warin about what they do and about some of the projects they've been working on. The practice are certainly doing things a bit differently and ... Show More

1h 1m

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