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Addwood: Perspectives on Printable Timber

26 Sep, 2024

As we move toward regenerative practices, the role of timber in manufacturing is evolving. AddWood: Perspectives on Printable Timber invites you to discover how the wood industry is transforming through material recycling and digital technology. Taking place at international design festival Designblok Prague 2024, this exhibition reimagines the ways in…

Country Road & Robert Gordon Launch Australian Made Ceramics Range

25 Sep, 2024

Country Road has announced the launch of its first-ever collaboration with iconic Australian pottery brand, Robert Gordon. Designed, sourced, and made in Victoria using reclaimed glaze, this exclusive range celebrates local design and innovation.  Each piece in the range passes through the hands of 12 skilled artisans at Robert Gordon’s…

NGV Architecture Commission 2024: Home Truth by Breathe

9 Sep, 2024

Taking the form of a labyrinthine house-within-a-house, Home Truth by Breathe, the winning design of the NGV Architecture Commission for 2024, invites audiences to envision an alternative way of building homes in Australia. Highlighting how small-scale architecture can create homes that are more sustainable, higher-quality and community-orientated, Home Truth presents…

New Urban Garden Laak Boorndap to Transform Melbourne Arts Precinct

3 Sep, 2024

The Victorian Government has released new designs and announced that the 18,000sqm urban garden in the centre of the Melbourne Arts Precinct Transformation will be named Laak Boorndap (pronounced Lark – Born – Darp). The name, Laak Boorndap, was bestowed to the garden by Traditional Owner, Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung  Language Elder, Aunty…

Vert: Modular Urban-Cooling Structures Unveiled For London Design Festival

1 Sep, 2024

Devised in a three-way collaboration between Stefan Diez’s industrial design studio Diez Office, the American Hardwood  Export Council (AHEC), and urban greening specialists OMCºC, Vert is an experimental proposition for a modular structure that can address both rising temperatures rising and intensifying heatwaves, as well as dwindling urban biodiversity. Unveiled…

Issue 99

29 Aug, 2024

Issue 99 comes out 5 September. Order on its own or as part of a subscription. When space is tight but you need a smidge more, a good architect will find it. In this issue, two have taken what little extra is available and run with it, another has elected…