Located in the heart of Sydney CBD, Legion House was originally constructed in 1902 by the YWCA and operated as a women’s hostel and was an outreach service for 60 years. The building is Heritage listed and protected due to its social significance. As part of its innovative redevelopment, Legion…

A new University of Wollongong building designed as both a research hub and research subject has the potential to transform the majority of Australia’s building to be sustainable and resilient, Cox Architecture said today.   The University’s new innovative Sustainable Buildings Research Centre (SBRC) was officially opened this morning by…

A4A’s installation experiments with the capacity to change an urban setting. Over 1,500 man-sized sheaves of corn for the field that shot up overnight at the end of July, in the heart of Milan, opposite the Sforza Castle, between the two Expo Gate pavilions. quantomais, the project devised and produced…

The University of Melbourne’s newest building, for the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning (ABP), has been awarded a 6 Star Green Design – Education Design v1 Rating that commends its world leadership in sustainable design and building practices. Vice-Chancellor Professor Glyn Davis is thrilled to see the environmental credentials…

The recently-unveiled Australian PlantBank – the science and research facility of the Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust – has been recognised with two prestigious honours at the NSW Architecture Awards. Presented on 26 June by the Australian Institute of Architects, the awards named the Australian PlantBank among a small…

The first and largest of three state-of-the-art buildings featuring in the University of Technology, Sydney’s billion-dollar City Campus Master Plan has been unveiled. The stunning new UTS Faculty of Engineering and IT (FEIT) building joins other new landmark buildings within the rapidly transforming and revitalised western gateway to Sydney’s CBD….

An overgrown back garden is reinvented as a fabulous new living space. In Brisbane’s balmy subtropical climate a lot of living is done outside — on decks and verandahs, in sheltered courtyards and terraces. While the owners of this enticing, contemporary outdoor space already had a large rear deck, they…

With a superb site on the Tasman Peninsula, the owners put their trust in a firm of young architects. It was a leap of faith that led them in a direction they would never have thought of. Elaine and Graham Speight weren’t intending to switch their urban existence for a…

Small is beautiful … and it is also a great way to be environmentally friendly. Add the fact that this Montreal-based live/work space is a renovation and it becomes seriously green. The vibrant yellow kitchen alcove is only a few square feet in size and it’s crammed with appliances, pots,…

Once completed, a building often goes untouched over the course of decades; the energy standard to which it is designed or retrofitted is therefore crucial. At the 2014 International Passive House Conference in Aachen, Germany, which took place this weekend, experts from all over the world showed how current construction…