Updates

MPavilion’s final week

28 Jan, 2016

MPavilion’s final week includes a couple of not-to-be-missed events. MRELAY, PART 4: UTOPIA The last session of the marathon conversation featuring thirty-two speakers is hosted by Michael Williams, director of the Wheeler Centre. It can often be difficult to face the reality of today’s world, where global climate change is leading…

CUSP: Designing into the Next Decade

28 Jan, 2016

In 2016, one of the most significant contemporary exhibitions of design produced in Australia within the last ten years returns to Sydney. CUSP: Designing into the Next Decade presents the future through five designers working on the cusp of what is possible. Featuring the works of Floyd Mueller, Greg More, Leah…

Hawke + King by Six Degrees

27 Jan, 2016

Introducing a new level of community living, Hawke + King is a striking new residential development by the Brunswick Group. Designed by lauded architects Six Degrees and located on an elevated island site bound by a leafy park and at the juncture of Hawke, King and Curzon Streets in West Melbourne, Hawke +…

Landmark Melbourne buildings switch to solar

27 Jan, 2016

Two iconic Melbourne buildings have broken records by installing solar panels, showing that commercial and apartment property owners are embracing renewable energy. The owners of 149 apartments in the boutique Hero Building on Russell Street have installed the largest solar system ever retrofitted to a Melbourne apartment block. In an…

Woods Bagot win a World Architecture News Award for Tonsley

19 Jan, 2016

Renewal SA’s Tonsley redevelopment has won the 2015 World Architecture News (WAN) Award for Adaptive Reuse. Over 60 projects were entered from around the world, with Tonsley the only project from Australia in the final six.  Woods Bagot Director Thomas Masullo said the win was testament to Woods Bagot’s commitment…

Sustainable Living Festival 2016

15 Jan, 2016

The Sustainable Living Festival is back for its 17th consecutive year, and looks to be bigger and better than ever. Last year the Festival attracted over 100,000 visits and even more are expected over the three-week program as enthusiasm for environmental issues continues to germinate throughout Australia. With such a…

Life Off Grid

14 Sep, 2016

'Life Off Grid' trailer from Jonathan Taggart on Vimeo. Could You Handle It? Off-grid is not a state of mind. It is not about being out of touch, living in a remote place, or turning off your mobile phone. Off-grid simply means living without a connection to the electric and…

Watch Out

6 Jan, 2016

For such a small project, Mark Richardson and Studiobird really pack a punch with their security “Hydronaut” at Monash University’s Caulfield campus. Addressing “security challenges” the demountable structure takes up five parking bays to house security staff and gives them a perfect position to watch out for trouble brewing. With a brief including semi-permanence and waste…

Inaugural Urban Timber winner announced

4 Jan, 2016

Nicholas Camerer, from Fremantle, WA, has been announced as the winner of the inaugural Intergrain Urban Timber Project. Premium Australian wood care brand, Intergrain, in partnership with the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA), launched the national design competition as a challenge to the new generation of Australian landscape and…

Issue 47

28 Dec, 2015

Inside issue 47, heritage and small project award winner, The Barn by workbylizandalex, the conversion of a former printing press by Steffen Welsch, an infill project in Fremantle by architects Yun Nie Chong and Patrick Kosky and a three story home built on a five x four-metre block by Ralph Alphonso. Our…