The Cross Street Parking Station, in Sydney’s Double Bay, is one of those unusual buildings that transforms a simple brief into something special. The 1977, five level parking station is something of a sculpture in raw concrete. In this podcast we talk to Sam Marshall about what makes this building remarkable and design architect Furio Valich, to hear how he sees it now revisiting for the first time in over 40 years.

The Cross Street Parking Station

In this podcast presenters Rebecca Hawcroft and Kieran McInerney chat with architectural historian and heritage specialist Dr Noni Boyd and architect Dr Michael Zanardo. Their architecture guide map Affordable Housing Sydney reveals the incredible range and quality of local affordable housing over time.
Affordable Housing Sydney brings together for the first time Sydney’s rich but relatively unknown built history of affordable housing.

From terraces to towers, each of the selected inner-city affordable housing projects spanning the last century is located and recorded chronologically with recognition for the delivery body and designer.

Affordable Housing Sydney reveals the incredible range and quality of local affordable housing over time which has dealt with the perennial design questions of density, amenity and city-making.

Highlighting both successes and shortcomings, this collection of urban affordable housing projects provides an important window into this largely untold story.

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Sydney Social Housing

Presenters Rebecca Hawcroft and Kieran McInerney go on the road to western NSW and Canberra to look at the work of an Italian architect who grew up in Eritrea and was educated in Milan; Enrico Taglietti.

Enrico Taglietti, a facade of shadows

Is "The Brutalist" the architecture movie we’ve been waiting for? Or is “The Fountainhead” the movie we deserve? Kieran and Rebecca go head to head on the merits and failings of the 2024 Brady Corbet film. 

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In this podcast, we go to a well-known Sydney house from the 1950s, but one very few people will have visited.

It's the Glass House by Bill and Ruth Lucas. We meet current residents, Anthony Gill and Sarah McSpadden, and talk with Peter Lonergan - a Lucas expert and the custodian of the Bill Lucas archive.

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