Is the design of hi-rise apartments impacting children’s health?

Family-friendly design guidelines for apartment buildings must be introduced to promote the health of the growing number of children being raised in Melbourne’s high-rise apartments, according to a new Deakin University study. The most recent statists show 79,000 Australian families live in high-rise apartments – classified as dwellings more than three stories tall – an […]

• Architecture • Environment Jul 27, 2018
Why landscape is crucial to healthcare design

There’s been a huge amount of research into the effect of green spaces on our health, with many scientists agreeing that they can aid with healing. ADR speaks to Brent Hardcastle, associate, Wilson Architects about how to incorporate landscape into design to promote health and wellbeing. What are the main challenges health centres face when […]

• Architecture • Environment • People Jun 21, 2018
An environmental approach to social housing design

Parisian practice Barrault Pressacco has recently completed a social housing project built using massive stone and hemp concrete. The building is located in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, where vernacular architecture coexists alongside Hausmannian renovations from the late 19th century. The architects took an environmental approach to the design while echoing the Hausmannian building tradition […]

• Architecture • Environment • Projects May 30, 2018
Is the open building movement a solution to Australia’s urban challenges?

A growing and ageing population, inadequate infrastructure, unaffordable housing and the challenges created by outward urban growth are all issues that Australians living in urban areas are facing. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, New South Wales and Victoria are “sitting on a glut” of 100,000 underused houses, with more than 2000 six-bedroom homes across […]

• Architecture • Environment • Projects May 28, 2018

Exploring the socially sustainable and eco-friendly tall building

• Environment Apr 20, 2018

Designing safer public spaces for women and girls

• Architecture • Environment • People Apr 10, 2018

Australian Geographic in major store rollout despite amazon’s rising presence

Living well with less
• Architecture • Environment • Mezzanine • Projects Jan 16, 2018
Biophilic design built into new Melbourne Metro stations
• Architecture • Environment • Projects • Technology Dec 5, 2017
How does your urban garden grow?
• Environment • Mezzanine • Mezzanine Nov 28, 2017
Second engineered timber office building flagged for Barangaroo
• AR • Architecture • Environment • Technology Nov 10, 2017
From small gardens, big things can grow
• Architecture • Environment • Mezzanine Oct 26, 2017







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