One of Melbourne’s most iconic laneways is now one of its greenest, with an innovative recycling project breathing new life into the Degraves Street precinct. Operating from the basement of Ross House in Flinders Lane, the Degraves Street Recycling Facility uses traditional recycling and high-tech machinery to reduce landfill and…

Melbourne based premium LED lighting brand Brightgreen launches its newest venture, Loomi; affordable Tru-Colour LED lights for kickass no-frills everyday illumination. Loomi lights emit something called Tru-Colour light, which is better than all the other sub-standard LED-generated light that’s out there, invading your eye-space. Tru-Colour is a fancy way of…

The centerpiece of this newly renovated house, lovingly designed and imagined by the Phooey team, Peter Ho and Emma Young, for a young family in inner Melbourne, is undeniably the three- storey volume that houses a bespoke spiral staircase and a uniquely crafted chandelier, set against the backdrop of a…

The Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) National Awards has recognised the strength of the country’s burgeoning landscape architecture industry, with Taylor Cullity Lethlean (TCL) emerging as the big winner. The AILA National Awards recognise and celebrate outstanding achievements and contributions in design, planning, urban design, land management, research and…

Located in the heart of Melbourne’s art and culture precinct, this inaugural pavilion is more than just an exhibition. The pop up structure marks the first year of MPavillion, a four-year project funded primarily by the Naomi Milgrom Foundation and backed by City of Melbourne and the Victorian State Government. Each…

Cantilever Kitchens will be launching the third model in their kitchen series at the Grand Designs Live in Melbourne. Green magazine will join them with a special subscription offer and competition to win a pair of Cantilever Shadowboxes, valued at $1310. Only those who subscribe to green magazine at GDL…

Good Design Australia announced the 2014 Victorian Premier’s Design Awards at a gala event in Melbourne last night. The overall Award went to Victorian architectural firm Breathe Architecture and developer Small Giants for their work on The Commons apartments. The Commons was selected as the overall winner for its innovative…

The architects of one of the most sophisticated genetic banks in Australia – a facility that will store 200,000 seed strains for up to 100 years – have relied on one of the oldest building materials in the world. Red cedar panels were chosen for the exterior of the Australian…

The winning projects of the Holcim Awards 2014 for Europe illustrate how sustainable construction continues to evolve – developing more sophisticated and multi-disciplinary responses to the challenges facing the building and construction industry. An ecological reserve and remediation project in Southern Italy, a low-cost flexible university building in Paris, and…