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…

The 2014 Fringe Furniture winners were announced on opening night of the Fringe Furniture exhibition on Wednesday 17th September at Abbotsford Convent.  A broad range of furnishings – including lighting, home wares, furniture and functional art and design are exhibited to the public in a celebration of design excellence and…

The Australian Timber Design Awards Presentation Evening was held on Thursday 18th September held at Australian National Maritime Museum at Darling Harbour. Hindmarsh Corporate Centre by k20 Architecture took out the Peoples’ Choice Award while Library at the Dock by Lend Lease was a winner in the sustainability category. Category Winners…

The Australian Institute of Architects’ National Jury has revealed their shortlist for the 2014 National Architecture Awards with winners to be announced on 6 November in Darwin. 61 projects were selected by the jury to progress to the final stage of judging, with many projects in the running across multiple…

A childcare centre in the small Northland town of Kawakawa has beaten more than 50 buildings across the Asia Pacific region to take top honours in the World Green Building Council’s regional leadership awards.  Te Mirumiru, New Zealand’s first commercial earth bank building, was last night (subs: Weds 3 Sept)…

BVN has moved to level 4, 12 Creek Street, Brisbane where they have reconfigured a 1980s tower floor with a composition of fixed platforms, benches, and movable furniture to create a contemporary workspace. The mix of uses and space types is ‘ordered’ by various window treatments – in some areas…