It is an overwhelmingly positive thing for cities when you can somehow figure out how to turn a site like this (which looks to have been a single-family home): Into 13 homes and new ground-floor retail that looks like this (non-Google street view images can… Read More
I’m not sure how much you can actually glean from this Australian Bureau of Statistics data (taken from this recent New Geography article): The data was collected on August 20, 2021 and, at that time, there were still a number of pandemic lockdowns in place.… Read More
Regular readers of this blog will know that I am huge fan of the YouTube channel Never Too Small. I have seen most of their episodes and I like to tell people about it even when it is only remotely related to the conversation at… Read More
In this short video about the Harry and Penelope Seidler House in Sydney (which is a beautiful heritage-listed modernist house), Penelope talks about how her and her late husband, Harry, used to drive around looking for the ideal block of land in which to build… Read More
Sometimes when you’re a writer, you just really need a quiet shed in which to work. This “writer’s shed” by Matt Gibson Architecture + Design out of Australia is remarkably simple — it’s 10 square meters — but also exceedingly cool. All photos by Shannon… Read More
Global household wealth is currently estimated at about $360 trillion, according to Credit Suisse’s 2019 Global Wealth Report. This represents an increase of about $9 trillion (~2.6%) from 2018-2019. Over the last decade, much of this growth in household wealth has come from two countries:… Read More
The Economist recently published the following chart alongside this article talking about the impact of foreign buyers on global house prices. They also have this set of interactive graphs that allows you to chart prices according to a number of different measures. The two metrics… Read More
Ever since I attended Art Basel Miami Beach last year, I’ve been determined to get a neon piece for my condo. I got inspired by all of the neon I saw at the show and so I told myself that I was going to get… Read More
Max Galka has created an incredible visualization of country-to-country net migration (from 2010 to 2015) on his blog, Metrocosm. Here’s a screenshot: But you really need to view the full screen interactive version. In that version, you can hover over a country to see the… Read More
Yesterday UrbanToronto.ca published a post talking about Melbourne’s laneways (something I also wrote about here on ATC a few months ago). As part of their post, they included the video that I’ve embedded below. I think it does a good job of showing the vibe and energy in… Read More
BRANDON DONNELLY 