Changing Tune
Issue 67
Taking an active approach to passive design, Anderson Architecture uses the terrace-house typology to achieve an eight-star rating.
Articles
Inspirational articles from the pages of green magazine
Treasure Chest
Issue 67
“The brief was for a classic, Italian-inspired café designed like a jewellery box,” explains Ohlo Studio of Willing Coffee, a venue in Guildford, WA.
Time Traveller
Issue 66
Three Piece House nods to the past, present and future; designed for the existing streetscape, contemporary living and sustainability.
Ebb and Flow
Issue 67
Edition Office’s Point Lonsdale beach house marries formal volumes with informal patterns of use.
Coastal Communion
Issue 62
For his own weekend retreat in Wye River, architect Ben Edwards used shipping containers to create a modest building with minimal impact on the land.
Simplicity Itself
Issue 61
'Not a McMansion’ was the brief for this Kerstin Thompson-designed beach house in Somers, which cleverly accommodates a retired couple and their regular guests with a cluster of pergola-linked pods elevated for sea breezes and views.
Odd One Out
Issue 66
A New Zealand architect and his clients were content to play by their own rules when it came to creating a coastal family retreat.
Rich History
Issue 66
Two architects with a shared love of landscape and tactile materials have hand-built an affordable home in Fish Creek almost entirely from timber salvaged from homes destined for demolition.
Just Right
Issue 65
Architects Daniel Raymond and Thomas Martin of rama used shipping containers to overcome the challenges of the brief and constraints of this bushland site.
Suspense
Issue 66
Designed by Richard Stampton Architects, this showroom for Australian fine jeweller Cushla Whiting in Melbourne delves far deeper than a conventional retail experience.
Easy Come, Easy Go
Issue 66
Designed by Kerstin Thompson Architects with Figureground Architecture, Sunda celebrates its temporariness through a delicate, metallic structure tucked between brick neighbours in Melbourne’s Punch Lane.
Leaps and Bounds
Issue 65
A winning combination of foresight, skill and sense stands kitchen manufacturing company Cantilever in good stead.
Beauty & Bounty
Issue 66
Thomas Woltz says he’s not a visionary but his output contradicts him. His landscape architecture firm has helped to transform tens of thousands of acres of degraded agricultural land into rich ecological communities that pulse with life.
Problem Solved
Issue 66
A refreshed traditional terrace house and its inviting new garden flip the script.
Tall Order
Issue 65
One of Melbourne’s highest green roofs crowns an inner-city apartment that captures the suburban garden experience 28 storeys above ground.
A Cut Above
Issue 65
A compilation of knock-out kitchens to pique your interest and excite your imagination.
Working Smarter
Issue 64
You never work a day in your life if you enjoy it – so the saying goes. We’ve rounded up a variety of offices that turn working environments into spaces for creativity, collaboration and cohesion.
Minimum Space, Maximum Potential
Issue 63
The projects proving that creativity and architectural genius know no bounds.
Treasure Island
Issue 66
Historic Norfolk Island is not short on charm, local character or natural beauty.
Places They Swam
Issue 65
For their book, Places We Swim, Caroline Clements and Dillon Seitchik-Reardon scoured Australia for the most notable spots to take a dip. Here are their highlights.
Catalyst
Issue 64
Humanity and architecture intersect and intertwine at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale.