88 Angel St is the first ever green roof terrace frontage in Australia. NSW Minister for Planning, Rob Stokes, will officially open the completed development at 6pm on 14 April 2016 at a Grand Opening party. The three brand new eco-houses feature native living roofs, solar power, motorized retractable glass roofs,…

The 202020 Vision have recently partnered with Good Design Awards Australia to create a brand new stand-alone award category, called the 202020 Green Design Award.  This category will honour and recognise businesses that produce projects, products or initiatives that make a significant contribution to more and better green space. The judges will be looking for candidates who demonstrate a greater…

The Chris Steele Scott Pavilion sits modestly by the lake in the Mount Lofty Botanic Gardens, 20 minutes’ drive out of Adelaide, South Australia. The project was initiated by the community based Mount Lofty Botanic Garden Support Group. Such a shelter had been envisaged in master-plans for the Garden, but…

An exciting new stage in the transformation of Jewell Station in Brunswick has been reached, after Moreland City Council approved plans submitted by VicTrack’s development partner Neometro to redevelop the station precinct. The planning permit means that Neometro can begin marketing and pre-sales of the apartments that are set to…

UNStudio has just won a competition to design a new mixed-use development proposed for the former Deutsche Bank site in Frankfurt. Launched in November 2015 by Groß & Partner Grundstücksentwicklungsgesellschaft mbH, the owners of the site, the competition sought the best idea to revitalise the financial district and act as an ‘urban…

An impressive glass construction, designed to achieve at least a 5- Star Green Star rating and featuring a wave-shaped façade of crystalline blocks, has been selected as the winning design for Parramatta Square’s landmark civic and community building. The design has been endorsed by Parramatta City Council after a jury…

Designed and constructed within just 10 weeks, ArchiBlox’s House of Häagen-Dazs – a pop-up ice-cream shop installed in Melbourne’s Federation Square – has just under two weeks to go before it is relocated to The Rocks Overseas Passenger Terminal in Sydney. Known for their innovative carbon positive houses, which saw them…

Designed by the architects at the Encore Heureux agency in Paris, The Circular Pavilion was recently set up on the esplanade at the Pavillon de l’Arsenal as part of the COP21 exhibition in Paris. The idea for the project was one of “circular economy”, where one person’s waste is another’s resource. The facade was made from 180 wooden…

In 1976 Gary Cleveland presented a vision: ‘to establish in the minds of a large proportion of the world’s population that the word ‘Tasmania’ is synonymous with good design and reliable craftsmanship’. Forty years on, Design Tasmania remains committed to that vision by supporting, promoting and guiding designers and master…