As part of Superlocalstudio’s 2016 Sweet Nature program, Plant Planet is a zero waste creative collaboration that works to strengthen our connection with nature and explore our skills and imagination. Every plant is beautiful and full of possibility but we can only see it when we are curious, experimental, open…
Projects ranging from a brightly coloured bike path built from a bit of old motorway to a temporary installation at an inner-city church, from reworked heritage buildings to a new and already much-loved library, and from idyllic houses to a small mausoleum are among this year’s recipients of Auckland Architecture…
A new benchmark for colour usage has been set by the 2016 Dulux Colour Awards winners, announced on Thursday 28 April at Melbourne’s Myer Mural Hall. Boundaries were pushed across all categories, with colour used in daring yet cleverly considered ways to transform spaces. Judges were unanimously impressed by the…
Issue 49, in newsagents and selected stores on 5 May. Inside Austin Maynard Architects’ stacked transparent boxes respond to the street, Owen Architects delve down under to find the coolth in a classic Queenslander, Archier deliver a house of courtyards and views in Tasmania and Farnan and Findlay reveal a weathering…
Streetlights in the centre of Adelaide are being fitted with smart technology as it moves closer to its goal of becoming the world’s first carbon neutral city. Adelaide City Council has partnered with tech giant Cisco and lighting specialist Sensity to modify more than 60 lights along Pirie Street and…
Built using leftover materials from Tasmania’s apple industry, the award-winning Shearers Quarters by John Wardle Architects is a gorgeous example of exemplary design working in harmony with sustainable construction. From the architect: “This beguiling shearers quarters sits as a companion building to an existing historic cottage on a working sheep…
A new wave of design-led residential development is sweeping through Australian property. Social, sustainable, and community-focused outcomes are driving the next generation and shifting the agenda. The questions being raised are: where should the industry place its focus in light of society’s evolving priorities? How can we create sustainable and enduring…
DesignBUILD has announced its 2016 speaker program featuring leaders from across Australia’s architecture, building, construction and design industries, who will address topical and emerging issues in compliance, innovation and sustainability. Leaders from several industry associations and bodies including Australian Construction Industry Forum (ACIF), Australian Institute of Architects (AIA), Australian Institute…
See another side of nature and experience its stories in an unexpected way when The Calyx opens at the Royal Botanic Garden in Sydney on 11 June 2016, to form the centerpiece of the Garden’s 200th birthday. The Calyx (pron. kal-iks, def. ‘The outermost whorl of flowers’) is a world-class…
The ceaseless appetite for the new means that architecture is constantly projecting, speculating and theorising. Instead of always looking into the future or back into the past, projects are already demonstrating the new ways in which architecture operates in the world. The challenge for architecture is to not retreat into…
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