In the sprawl of existing suburbs, Snøhetta Australasia's Gumji Kang sees not decline but latent possibility — the kind that emerges only when architects and developers are willing to engage with complexity rather than flee toward blank land. Her argument, shaped by years of practice across Australia, is that the industry's habit of separating design, finance, sustainability, and social value into competing silos is both a strategic error and a missed opportunity. The buildings we commission today will outlast the quarterly cycles that fund them by generations, and that temporal mismatch may b