Australia’s first Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) manufacturing plant will be built in the Albury Wodonga region, representing a $25 million investment and creating 54 local jobs. Announced today, the high tech sustainable timber facility will produce 60,000m3 of CLT each year, which is enough to construct the equivalent of one…

79 projects have been shortlisted for this year’s NSW Architecture Awards. The shortlist comes from a field of more than 170 entries, reviewed by a team of 19 jurors through an extensive schedule of presentations and site visits across the categories of Public Architecture, Educational Architecture, Urban Design, Commercial Architecture,…

Prominent developer Far East Consortium has revealed a pioneering vertical green rooftop at its 2,500- apartment Upper West Side development that spans over 4,000sqm, in a move to create a new best practice for green inner-city spaces. Located in the heart of Melbourne’s CBD, between Spencer, Bourke and Lonsdale Streets,…

The Sydney Opera House announced today that the annual contemporary music takeover, Vivid LIVE, will be carbon neutral for the second year running as part of the Opera House’s commitment to reducing environmental impact across the board, from day-to-day building operations to the world-class art performed on Sydney’s most famous…

For the seventh consecutive year, the annual Intergrain Timber Vision Awards is running again and entries are now open. Following the success of previous years, the Awards program is designed to celebrate the innovative use of timber in Architecture and Design, and to award high calibre projects that have used…

For the first time a group of University of Sydney students are participating in the premier Venice Architecture Biennale, which is expected to draw around 200,000 international visitors from 28 May to 27 November 2016. Twelve Master of Architecture students are exhibiting speculative architectural models in Time, Space, Existence at…

In an effort to develop affordable, off-the-grid masterplanned communities in the future, leading national developer Mirvac will commence development of its first ‘House with No Bills’ in Melbourne this year. The House with No Bills is an innovative initiative forming part of Mirvac’s ambitious sustainability strategy ‘This Changes Everything’, which…

An Australian-first green energy project is slated to launch later this year in Sydney that promises to pave the way for more Australians to access solar power. The Stucco Co-operative, with the support of a City of Sydney “Environmental Performance – Innovation Grant”, is demonstrating Australia’s first photovoltaic solar electricity…