In an industry-first, Melbourne-based multidisciplinary design studio Nexus Designs and students at Sacred Heart College in Geelong have joined forces to explore innovative biomaterials made from spent coffee grounds. Commencing in January 2024, the collaboration has seen 25 students from Sacred Heart College’s Design Futures Lab take part in a…
The Naomi Milgrom Foundation has announced that visionary architect and urbanist Nathalie de Vries, co-founder of Dutch architectural firm MVRDV, along with Professor Lesley Lokko OBE, founder of the African Futures Institute and curator of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023, will join the program of international keynote speakers for the…
Switching to solar and electrifying your home can deliver big savings on energy bills, but getting it all done is not always that easy, particularly when you’re busy. ZapCat, a new social enterprise, helps households make the transition. The renewable energy transition in Australia is in full swing. Households are…
A grove of mature native trees determined the plan of a new community hall for Randwick Council in Sydney’s eastern suburbs by Sam Crawford Architects. The inverted L-shaped layout allowed the trees to be retained and celebrated, with a much-loved blackbutt tree informing the geometry of the entry sequence. “We…
Design Tasmania, the state’s leading centre for design, will present Unsettling Queenstown in August and September, 2024. Created by Julian Worrall, Anthony Coupe, Ali Gumillya Baker, Emily Paech and Sarah Rhodes, Unsettling Queenstown was selected as Australia’s representation at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale. The exhibition at Design Tasmania in…
Software company PlanRadar is calling for greater use of Lifecycle Assessment (LCA) to achieve carbon neutrality in the construction industry. Carbon-neutral construction aims to reduce the environmental impact of the construction industry by addressing carbon emissions and resource efficiency throughout a building’s lifecycle. This comprehensive approach, known as the lifecycle…
500 Bourke Street, a robust modern brutalist building in the heart of Melbourne’s CBD has undergone a $160 million transformation thanks to an extensive retrofit project led by multidisciplinary design practice FK. The iconic 1970’s building has been revitalised around the theme of an Australian design story to celebrate its…
Reimagining Birrarung: Design Concepts for 2070 invites eight leading Australian landscape architecture and design firms to reimagine the lands and waters of Birrarung (the Yarra River) and create an exciting vision for how communities can better access, engage with, and care for this important living ecosystem. Presented by the National…
In collaboration with the National Indigenous Art Fair, the Australian Design Centre presents Vessels: Transcending Tradition, a celebration of the rich tapestry of Indigenous object-based artistry. This exhibition, curated by ADC First Nations Programs Coordinator and proud Bundjalung woman Miah Madden, honours the vibrant and profound creative practices of some of…
The Thomas Dixon Centre, a transformative adaptive reuse project by Architectus Conrad Gargett, has achieved WELL Certification™ at the Platinum level—representing a world first for a performing arts organisation and heritage-listed arts facility. The WELL Building Standard recognises spaces that advance human health and wellbeing with a people-first approach to buildings, organisations, and…
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