Issue 42 includes two cabins, one tucked into the coastal shrub on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, the other perched on a hill overlooking a bay on New Zealand’s north island. In Brisbane we look at the third incarnation of a colonial heritage building and in Melbourne the renovation of a middle terrace,…
Building Designers Association of Victoria (BDAV) is calling on the state’s best building designers to celebrate a significant milestone for the industry and enter its 20th BDAV Building Design Awards. The annual BDAV Building Design Awards, presented by Australia’s largest industry association representing design professionals, recognise and showcase creativity and…
Decor + Design is pleased to announce applications are now open for VIVID 2015, Australia’s longest running design competition and innovation showcase for new and emerging furniture designers. Professional designers in business less than five years and current students of design are invited to submit their new furniture or lighting…
Following on from the success of The Commons in Melbourne, Breathe are collaborating with a group of fellow architects to build a apartment development model that can be replicated. Nightingale is a triple bottom line development with apartments that are environmentally, socially and financially sustainable. The ultimate goal of the…
Move over, carbon neutral ArchiBlox have developed the Worlds First Carbon Positive Prefabricated House. This small footprint home will be installed into Melbourne’s City Square on the 8th of February 2015. Archi+ Carbon Positive Houses will make significant contributions within society by addressing the increasing levels of carbon emissions and…
Aktivhaus, or B10 for short, is a ‘triple zero’ home that generates twice as much electric power from sustainable energy sources as it consumes making it the first functional ‘Active House’ in the world. In addition to generating enough power to run its own building services, it also uses the recouped energy to power two…
Transitions film festival kicks off Feb 18 at Cinema Nova with an epic line up of world-changing films. To win tickets to Infinite Happiness at Transitions Film Festival on March 3 visit the TFF win page and enter the code INFINITEGREENNL Infinite Happiness Copenhagen’s “8 House,” an ultramodern loop of…
Architecture, building and construction professionals can now register to attend DesignBUILD 2015, which will be held at The Dome in Sydney Olympic Park’s Sydney Showground from Tuesday April 28 to Thursday April 30. DesignBUILD connects more than 6,000 building industry professionals working across residential and commercial sectors with 200 leading…
Now in its fourth year, The Transitions Film Festival is Australia’s largest sustainability film festival. Covering topics such as social and technological innovation, renewable energy, community empowerment, eco-architecture, collaborative consumption, global movements, ecological economics and consciousness, the festival aims to inspire audiences with stories of hope, resilience and action. Amongst an…
Aussies looking to make the switch to solar water heating to reduce their energy bills can now take advantage of innovative home-grown technology that delivers a new gold-standard in terms of design, strength and durability following the launch of Solahart’s latest solar water heaters which utilise the new envelope range…
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