Today the Living Future Institute of Australia (LFIA) will formally launch the Brickworks Living Building Challenge design competition at a special event in Melbourne, pressing the go button for designers, built environment professionals and students around the world to conceptualise what the world’s most sustainable retail centre looks like. The LFIA…
The Australian Institute of Architects’ has officially launched the 2016 South Australian Architecture Awards program today, celebrating the diversity of our State’s finest architectural projects. Over 40 architecture practices and design collaborations have entered projects into categories ranging from, new houses and residential alterations & additions, public buildings and urban…
In issue 48, a bold cabin in NZ by Crosson architects, an Art Deco renovation by Rob Kennon architects, a finely crafted apartment in Germany and a beachside home inspired by a campsite. We take a look at small spaces and how to make them work, the Sydney garden of…
Dresden Mobile is coming to a street near you. Dresden is a new eyewear company that is set to revolutionise eyewear making it affordable, fun and sustainable. Dresden mobile is a transportable workshop that will allow Dresden to revolutionise commerce by taking the product to the people. Dresden mobile will be touring…
The team behind SPUD in the UK have recently developed some exciting collaborations between artists, designers and the community to deliver two engaging projects. With a brief to design a temporary place to live and work while studying the ‘littoral’- the watery edge of the Beaulieu River in Exbury, artist Stephen Turner (the…
WOMADelaide has released the full program of speakers , discussion topics and workshops for the 2016 Planet Talks, presented in partnership with the University of South Australia. Hosted as part of the WOMADelaide festival in Adelaide’s Botanic Park on March 11 – 14, The Planet Talks returns to the picturesque setting of Speakers’…
Find out how GECA is working to collaborate and drive the uptake of sustainable products and services, hear the latest key insights from Anna Scott’s research into sustainable production and consumption in Australia, and learn more about the impacts of the new Sustainable Procurement standard ISO 20400. A guided Barangaroo South…
Designed and made in Melbourne, the 100th Chair for the 100 Chairs in 100 Days: Martino Gamper exhibition at RMIT University Design Hub has been revealed. Renowned for his cross-disciplinary and culturally responsive approach to design, London-based Martino Gamper first came to international acclaim with 100 Chairs in 100 Days….
Two influential Spanish architects have joined the speaker line-up for the 2016 National Architecture Conference, How Soon is Now, taking place in Adelaide, 28-30 April. Co-creative Directors Cameron Bruhn, Sam Spurr and Ben Hewett, have named ‘guerrilla architect’ Santiago Cirugeda of Seville and self-sufficiency advocate Vicente Guallart from Barcelona as…
“Imagine a building designed and constructed to function as elegantly and efficiently as a flower: a building informed by its bioregion’s characteristics, that generates all of its own energy with renewable resources, captures and treats all of its water, is toxic free and beautiful.” – The Living Future Institute of…
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