The globally renowned, award-winning Younghusband redevelopment – a $400 million-plus adaptive reuse investment in Kensington – has secured a run of multi-year leases across its Stage 1 Station Building, with all Level 1 spec suites now fully leased, signalling continued leasing momentum in a cautious office market. The latest leasing…

Powerhouse Parramatta has announced a landmark partnership with the internationally recognised Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation, a dynamic new space for food education, sustainability and community. Each year the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program will provide up to 10,000 regional NSW and Western Sydney primary school students with hands-on learning across…

Architecture practice Breathe has launched the Breathe Palette, a new architect-designed paint range developed in collaboration with Haymes Paint. Manufactured in Australia, the range brings together sustainability, material science and design excellence while reducing transport emissions through local production. Designed for both interior and exterior use, the range is defined…

Henning Larsen, EK – Business Academy Copenhagen, and CHEVRANT have launched OpenDetail, an open-source platform for biogenic construction details. The construction industry remains one of the largest sources of global carbon emissions, and the tools used to design and build have not kept pace with the urgent need for low-carbon…

Otetto and Other Architects have developed a modestly scaled, off-the-plan prefabricated hempcrete house – Lomandra – to address the embodied carbon risk of the Australian government’s plan to build 1.2 million new homes by 2029.  The government’s housing plan sits uneasily alongside the nation’s emissions target of a 62-70 per…