HASSELL Chairman Ken Maher, and Adelaide’s Thinker in Residence, Professor Laura Lee, discuss the future of architecture in The Advertiser. In the article titled ‘Conservative Adelaide? Our architecture is ripe for a new-age makeover’ (2 October, 2009), Ken Maher argues that there is scope for a change in Adelaide’s approach to design and observes that “generally speaking, design is not on the political agenda … [and] we get the cities we deserve.”

‘Travels in Immersive Reality’, by Timothy Horton, was published in Place (October 2009), a section in The Adelaide Review, dedicated to design, planning and the built environment in South Australia. In his article, Tim explains the journey of discovery while creating the Giant Panda enclosure at the Adelaide Zoo. He notes that “a critical part of the design journey has been to understand the behavioural characteristics of the pandas, and to use this knowledge to generate an immersive landscape that places a topography reminiscent of a Chinese highland forest within the Adelaide context.”