Built using leftover materials from Tasmania’s apple industry, the award-winning Shearers Quarters by John Wardle Architects is a gorgeous example of exemplary design working in harmony with sustainable construction. From the architect: “This beguiling shearers quarters sits as a companion building to an existing historic cottage on a working sheep…
DesignBUILD has announced its 2016 speaker program featuring leaders from across Australia’s architecture, building, construction and design industries, who will address topical and emerging issues in compliance, innovation and sustainability. Leaders from several industry associations and bodies including Australian Construction Industry Forum (ACIF), Australian Institute of Architects (AIA), Australian Institute…
See another side of nature and experience its stories in an unexpected way when The Calyx opens at the Royal Botanic Garden in Sydney on 11 June 2016, to form the centerpiece of the Garden’s 200th birthday. The Calyx (pron. kal-iks, def. ‘The outermost whorl of flowers’) is a world-class…
The ceaseless appetite for the new means that architecture is constantly projecting, speculating and theorising. Instead of always looking into the future or back into the past, projects are already demonstrating the new ways in which architecture operates in the world. The challenge for architecture is to not retreat into…
The pioneering Melbourne Renewable Energy Project is gathering momentum with a tender for new renewable energy advertised nationally today. Lord Mayor Robert Doyle said the tender shows the project to develop a large scale renewable energy plant is on track. “The City of Melbourne has united a group of large…
Curtin University has partnered with the Low Carbon Living CRC, Western Power, LandCorp, the City of Fremantle and Solar Balance to develop what researchers believe will be the world’s first zero carbon neighbourhood using solar photovoltaic (PV) and battery storage technologies. A $1 million grant from the Australian Renewable Energy…
Victorians who have shown leadership in sustainability and a commitment to improving the environment are encouraged to enter the 2016 Premier’s Sustainability Awards and share their stories. Entries are now open for state and local government, businesses, organisations, community groups, and individuals who are leading the way in sustainable innovation…
A new cultural program launching in Melbourne next month sets out to celebrate one of architecture’s most derided and misunderstood movements. Running May 6 – 29, Brutalist Block Party is a series of workshops, talks, dining events and social situations held at 122 Roseneath Street – a vast, concrete-fronted warehouse…
Featuring curators Christine Leu, Graham Teeple and Alan Webb, The Gladstone Hotel’s 4th annual Grow Op exhibit returns from April 21st – 24th, 2016. Grow Op is not your typical garden show. This four-day festival will transform the hotel’s second floor with 30+ immersive installations that take on urbanism, environmental…
The Melbourne social circuit has few secrets left, but the DADo Film Society, screening architecture films both wonderful and obscure, is one well worth discovering. The 2016 program celebrates three exciting partnerships with some of Melbourne’s keenest advocates of good design. Session 3 builds upon Assemble Papers’ focus on Small Footprint Living with…
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