Big House is Big

This is embarrassing. New Australian houses are, on average, the largest in the world with an average size is 214sqm. Even worse, NSW has the highest national average at 262.9sqm. The USA is close behind Australia at 202sqm.

I guess, we architects are partly to blame for this—alterations to existing buildings are very rarely undertaken with the intention of reducing area, and we are complicit with clients who view floor space ratios as targets to be hit with as high a degree of accuracy possible.