The City of Sydney will celebrate World Environment Day on a high, having retrofitted 45 of its properties to reduce electricity and water use, slash carbon emissions and generate operational savings of more than $1 million a year. The two-year retrofit program included Town Hall House, Customs House, swimming pools,…

The balance pendant is a thin steam bent timber LED light that can work alone as a task light or in a cluster as feature lighting. It celebrates simplicity and elegance through its form and manufacturing process, with little material waste and machining time. The timber is finished with a…

The D900+, Brightgreen’s most versatile downlight with Tru-Colour technology, was awarded the Good Design Australia Award in the category Lighting and Furniture. The award was presented to Brightgreen at the Good Design Awards Gala Night 2014 held during Vivid Sydney on 28 May 2014. The D900+ was competing against numerous…

A collection of carpet tiles made from discarded fishing nets sourced from some of the world’s poorest fishing communities has taken out the 2014 Good Design Award® for Sustainability. The Award was announced at the 2014 Good Design Awards held in Sydney on 28 May at White Bay Cruise Terminal,…

Design Duo, Edward Linacre & Viktor Legin of design studio Copper, have been chosen as the winner of the Temple & Webster Emerging Designer Award for 2014. The Temple & Webster Emerging Designer Award is a celebration of the design, work and careers of ten of the country’s most exciting…

Sixty-two projects are in the running for honours in the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2014 Brisbane Regional Architecture Awards with winners to be announced on Friday 16 May. Projects entered this year span all categories including the new category of Residential Architecture – Houses (Alterations and Additions) and the jury…

In the lead up to World Environment Day on June 5th, home appliance company, Electrolux, has announced its ‘Invironment Project’ – a global research initiative to investigate what indoor pollution looks like in consumer homes around the world. Particle pollution is a global environmental issue, generally focusing on outdoor air…

Leading home furnishing retailer; IKEA Australia, announced today that it will roll out a solar panel energy system across its East Coast stores, resulting in the largest commercial installation in Australia. Collectively, the installation, across seven IKEA buildings, will include over 16,000 panels, with an annual output of 5,495 million…

A new bank building on Auckland’s waterfront has received New Zealand’s highest architectural honour and 16 other projects, ranging from an airport terminal in Christchurch to an exhibition pavilion in Germany, and a tiny bach to a busy student hub, have won awards in the country’s premier architectural competition, the…

Advanced waste treatment systems could divert more than 95 per cent of Sydney’s household waste from landfill and convert non-recyclable waste into a useful renewable gas to power city buildings and provide heating and cooling. Rapid population growth in our cities means that by around 2021 our landfill sites will…