This paper uses statistical analyses to understand the effect of proximity of old prisons on property prices. The study employed semi-log hedonic regression models; a quantitative research method applied to assess the impact of proximity to heritage gaols on property prices for a case study of HM Prison Pentridge in the time range between 2015-2019. Results demonstrated that the former Pentridge has a variable effect on properties lying in and around its current heritage borders. Pentridge shows a diminution effect on prices of residential properties on its land currently being developed to a mixed-use precinct, as well as its intimate surrounding residences. Inversely, Pentridge shows a positive price-effect on properties lying at distances between 400m to the maximum study range of 1400m in the case of 'houses', and between 600m to the range of 1000m in the case of 'units'. Findings of this research suggest that prices of properties with direct visual access to Pentridge's structures are negatively affected. Results also suggest that Pentridge's current redevelopment project may have contributed positively to property prices lying outside the direct visibility zone. To be able to further validate these interpretations, similar research may consider other variables influencing property valuation, such as direct visibility of the gaol as well as interviews that assess the 'attractability' of Pentridge's redevelopment. Future studies may examine the rate of change in property price along time for each distance band from the gaol borders. Future research may also consider duplicating the methodology to assess the comfortability towards gaols converted to museums, as well as gaols that are still in operation. The originality of this research emerges from the distinct lack of quantitative evidence in the current literature. Most research has investigated uncomfortable heritage focusing on qualitative assessments of memory, stigma, commemoration, and shame, with limited scholarly attention paid towards property depreciation effects as a result of Australia's prison history, nor increasing effects due to gaols' reuse and redevelopment. Decision-makers and stakeholders of equivalent dark heritage reuse projects will find this research useful in understanding potential impacts on surrounding property prices. Property valuers and real estate companies operating in Coburga suburb of Melbourne, Australiamay use the related tables and figures in guiding their business for the coming years.

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He holds an MSc degree in Architectural Engineering and Environmental Design in the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport in Egypt (RIBA awarding institute) and had lectured the Architectural Heritage Preservation and Conservation course in the same academy. He holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Urban Planning and Management from Twente University, the Netherlands. Waled's academic and professional works look specifically at human engagement with the built environment, cultural heritage, architectural education, and the stimuli of heritage adaptive reuse design in these matters.

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In Space, Time, and Architecture, Sigfried Giedion identified Jørn Utzon as one of the proponents and leaders of what Giedion regarded as the Third Generation of modern architecture in the 20th century. This article considers how Utzon subsequently further exemplified in later works the principles Giedion had identified as essential to that Third Generation and discusses, as Giedion did not explicitly, the significance of light in Utzon’s architecture, which plays a key role in underpinning and articulating these defining principles. This article addresses how the principles Giedion attributed to Utzon and his defining consideration of light, derived from his interpretations of his many transcultural sources of inspiration, notably including from, China, Iran, Japan, Hawaii, Mexico, and Morocco, as well as from his own Nordic realm and Europe, as can be seen in the Sydney Opera House, Can Lis in Mallorca, Melli Bank in Tehran, Kuwait National Assembly, and Bagsværd Church in Denmark, among others.