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Inspirational articles from the pages of green magazine.
Inspirational articles from the pages of green magazine.
The experience of swimming in a stunning new ocean pool begins and ends in these equally beautiful changerooms.
How can technology turn material waste into solutions for the planet’s biggest challenges?
With constraints at every turn but with a surprisingly collegiate approach, a small cabin made of bits and bobs takes shape.
Selected from our Upfront section, where we share a curated spread of projects, products and initiatives that we love.
Years of decay are unpicked, and a contemporary family home is stitched back together with borrowed landscape and honest materials to create so much more than the sum of its parts.
A Melbourne renovation captures the character of stylish clients confident with colour, a purposeful brief and a love of their neighbourhood.
It takes clarity of mind to make way for garden and light. But often, space is best measured by the senses rather than the numbers.
The architectural demands of responding to bushfire attack levels often result in a path of least resistance. But leaning into the problem can produce startling results.
Long a sentinel for surfers, this elegant house now also keeps watch over a rigorous test case of carbon neutral building.
An inventive Victorian beach house reflects years of friendship and shared interests between client and architect.
When winters on a hill overlooking the Tasman are no longer the place for a leaky shed, it is time for the cosiest of cabins to step in.
Buffeted by all that Tassie weather might throw at a house and its inhabitants, this wood-lined cocoon is respite personified.
Canny clients team up with local architects to create a simple, economical and beautifully realised regional home.
Nightingale Marrickville is an innovative build-to-rent project providing affordable housing with outstanding design and sustainability credentials.
Nightingale Evergreen is a major chapter in the story of developing well-designed and affordable housing that run counter to urban sprawl and ticky-tacky builds.
In a notable first for this publication, we present a house designed for giraffes.
Soaked in Melbourne’s storied share house and artistic history, this warehouse and its garden is as social and vibrant as its famous inhabitant.
Without a lot of wriggle room, the design of a Melbourne cottage on a tight site cleverly lays the groundwork for the garden to be front and centre in daily life.
The never-simple trick of getting light into an inner-city terrace finds its solution in a marriage of elegant landscaping and cleverly-designed courtyard spaces.
The experience of swimming in a stunning new ocean pool begins and ends in these equally beautiful changerooms.
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.
How can technology turn material waste into solutions for the planet’s biggest challenges?
The magnificence of NSW’s Sapphire Coast is comparable only to the fortitude of its people.
The terrain, flora and weather are important factors that make an epic trek, but it is also the guides who add so much to the journey on Tasmania’s iconic Overland Track.
The Southern Grampians offer a dynamic landscape for hiking and the iconic Royal Mail Hotel at the foot of the range is a welcoming gourmet destination.
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