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The hero shot is the bane of good architecture. Form follows photos. It s a manifestation of container over contained: the exterior, not the internal. It should be space, light, use, quality. Those are the things that make architecture. I rail against the hero shot’s ubiquity, and architects’ obsession with it.
But no-one asked two key questions on the same day there was a National Cabinet housing summit: why do we have so many homeless (that a signal box is a home); and why is there no agency to look after the homeless (and their welfare)? Our PM, spruiking more homes for the middle classes to buy, ignores the issue and if pressed would say it’s a states’ problem, which it most likely is, but where are the states?