A new benchmark for colour usage has been set by the 2016 Dulux Colour Awards winners, announced on Thursday 28 April at Melbourne’s Myer Mural Hall. Boundaries were pushed across all categories, with colour used in daring yet cleverly considered ways to transform spaces. Judges were unanimously impressed by the…
Streetlights in the centre of Adelaide are being fitted with smart technology as it moves closer to its goal of becoming the world’s first carbon neutral city. Adelaide City Council has partnered with tech giant Cisco and lighting specialist Sensity to modify more than 60 lights along Pirie Street and…
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…
This new project by Derlot, Morning After cafe, in Brisbane’s West End, is as fresh as. The design team, under the art direction of Alexander Loterzstain and Head of Interiors Pamela Georgeson, applied their signature holistic approach to the job, incorporating both their existing Derlot Editions furniture pieces as well as specially designed elements such as…
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…
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