Until architects understand the need for totality, for a cohesive whole, all the forums, all the conferences, and there have been hundreds over the years, all the discussions will be for nought. We need a revolutionary approach to the teaching and learning of architecture and to its practice. Neville Gruzman, Woollahra. Maybe the German requirements for developers of apartment blocks could be Sydney's solution for more aesthetic and better built buildings. First, all developments must be architecturally designed and secondly, developers must retain ownership for two years and thus lease the apartments before strata sales.
Maintenance is therefore the responsibility of the development for that period.
This policy ensures better building practice and a superior quality structure internally and externally than those mentioned in the ongoing debate in your paper initiated by Mr Carr. Trish McPhee, Mosman. Names needed Australians have created some brilliant nicknames for the residents of each State in Australia. Queenslanders are banana-benders, West Australians are sandgropers, South Australians are croweaters, Northern Territorians are top enders and Tasmanians are apple islanders. However, NSW and Victoria seem to have missed out.