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Amidst growing climate concerns, sustainability must be deeply fundamental in the design and development of builds. Stemming not only from low impact and energy efficient sites, a healthy building is underpinned by a network of informed and adaptive decision-making processes. The ability to create a space that is functional, honours integrity in both materiality and structure, and, connects people to their surrounding landscape in a self-sustaining way encapsulates the value of sustainable architecture in both an environmental and broader community context.

Not Wasted: Flotsam Jetsam

Issue 103

The experience of swimming in a stunning new ocean pool begins and ends in these equally beautiful changerooms.

Versatile–Recent Prefabricated Buildings That Stand Out

Issue 103

What stands out about recent prefabricated buildings is their sheer flexibility. While some are still simple, increasingly the forms – and materials – of prefab are becoming more complex. This collection includes multi-storey and even multi-residential examples across Australia and New Zealand.

Not Wasted: Relief

Issue 100

How can technology turn material waste into solutions for the planet’s biggest challenges?

Not Wasted: Lost and Found

Issue 101

With constraints at every turn but with a surprisingly collegiate approach, a small cabin made of bits and bobs takes shape.