Efficient insulation reduces noise, cut costs and increases family comfort. If you look at the world’s best practice and international benchmarks, Australian homes have poor thermal resistance, so it’s no wonder there is plenty of room for improvement when it comes to insulation1. With uncontrolled air leakage accounting for between…
Melbourne company Harwyn has won the prestigious 2015 Good Design Award for Commercial and Residential Architecture for its range of prefabricated building pods. Presented by Good Design Australia the award was announced in Sydney on 29 May to a gala event audience as part of the 2015 Good Design Festival,…
A pavilion has been designed by Herzog & Meuron to house Slow Food at Expo Milano 2015. Next to the Mediterranean Hill planted with figs, citrus and olives, the space covers a 3,300-square-meter triangle. The pavilion has been designed to encourage visitors to discover the significance of agricultural and food biodiversity,…
In 2013 three designers met in Bali to start the first Field Experiments project. Benjamin Harrison Bryant (New York City), Paul Marcus Fuog (Melbourne) and Karim Charlebois-Zariffa (Montreal) set up a studio in Lohtundah, a farming community outside Ubud. They held a series of daily design experiments collaborating with the local…
Participate in a lively discussion of the challenges and opportunities of global warming with invited speakers from across the fields of design, science, economics, communications, and Indigenous knowledge. Together we will debate how we may: reconceive the systems of formation – of things such as ‘chair’, ‘museum’, ‘vineyard’, ‘river valley’ and ‘society’;…
XLam have announced plans to expand Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) production capacity both in New Zealand and Australia. The first Australian order for a project in Sydney has already been accepted. The installation of a second press at the New Zealand based plant will see CLT production capacity double as early…
More than just floors, the latest in global design trends is seeing timber being used on virtually every surface imaginable across both residential and commercial spaces. From panelling and cladding through to joinery and furniture, timber is shaping the design landscape in 2015 as professionals and homeowners introduce timbers to…
Designed by Techné Architecture + Interior Design, this new beauty school has a modern new feel. Beauty EDU gave the studio a brief to create “… a retail environment that was simple, clean and unlike anything else on the market.” Linda Raimondo is the Senior Interior Designer at Techné: “The…
Always on the look out for beaut restaurant and café interiors, we like to include at least one per issue for you to have a look at. However, this time we felt compelled to share a few because they’re all great and we couldn’t choose … The Incinerator …
A program that takes food scraps from Melbourne’s laneways and turns it into compost for our parks and gardens headlines a three-year plan to green the city and divert waste from landfill. The Degraves Street Recycling Facility, which uses food dehydrator to turn food waste into a compost- like soil…
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