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Preview 10 groundbreaking concept buildings that could radically shape future city skylines, including an organic agricultural high rise aiming to grow crops in New York, and a droplet-shaped building that promises to convert air into water.
Melbourne-based creative practice, Mim Design Studio, sustainable designer Joost Bakker, award-winning head chef of Attica, Ben Shewry, restaurateur Neil Perry and landscape designer, Jamie Durie collaborate for the Lexus Design Pavilion at Melbourne Cup Carnival 2014. The Birdcage at Flemington Racecourse is an exclusive event, requiring exceptional design. MIM Design and Joost talk to ADR.
Jeremy McLeod of Breathe Architecture discusses socially sustainable design and a new living model at The Commons, in the first of ADR’s Intergrain Timber Vision Award winners interview series.
Following on from our special issue on the elements of architecture (AR135–Elements), online editorial assistant, Annabel Koeck, takes a look at curtain wall. Annabel is an Australian graduate architect currently working in London.
No time to read, write or discuss architecture? No room for theories, books or magazines in the contemporary profession? AR thinks there's no more an appropriate time to critically discuss architecture than now. Get involved.
The project will serve as Cambodia’s go-to archive for Khmer Rouge history and a leading centre for genocide studies in Asia.
The project houses a private residence and garage within two 'crisp barn-like forms' clad in vertical run steel and recycled bricks taken from the devastation caused by the Christchurch earthquakes.
Twin Peaks returns to television screens in 2016; who can forget its bizarre closing sequences? But where did David Lynch get his inspiration and how does it tie to architecture?
We take a look at the five Australian practices that won some of the most awaited awards at this year’s World Architecture Festival in Singapore.
Matthew Claudel, a researcher at the MIT Senseable Cities Lab, investigates what the future holds for media architecture and implores it to explore ideas beyond 'TV screens for living in'.
Dean Dewhirst's new book, From the Ground Up: 20 Stories of a Life in Architecture, to be launched as part of the World Architecture Day celebrations, features leading Australian architectural practitioners, who reveal what drew them to the profession.
LOBBY is a new journal produced by the students of London’s Bartlett School of Architecture. It aims to serve as a "platform for exchange and discussion in lieu of a physical lobbying space".
The National Arboretum Canberra project, designed by Taylor Cullity Lethlean and Tonkin Zulaikha Greer, won the Landscape Project of the Year Award this year.
The competition brief required a new 170-hectare financial district, including three high-rise structures, cultural buildings, and a large green space to connect the district to the surrounding city. An article by Evan Rawn.
An article by Architectural Review Asia Pacific editor Michael Holt calls for the resuscitation of a discourse within the architectural discipline.
Chris Hayton, principal architect at Rothelowman, discusses Convertible Spaces - a project designed to address the recent shift towards compact living in Australia.
The Gran Rubina is in many ways a refreshing departure from established notions of a traditional office block. Architect Brian Sheldon speaks to ADR about his work on the project making waves in Jakarta.
The City of Sydney’s program of design excellence forums recently focused on cultural precinct planning. With three of the city’s iconic beaches currently undergoing renewal, what is the role of the seaside CBD in the context of Sydney’s cultural identity? Written by ADR's contributing online editor, Sara Anne Best.
Jeremy McLeod of Breathe reflects on winning both the hospitality award for the National Hotel refurbishment and the Designer of the Year award at IDEA 2012, in an interview with CATC student Eliza Sanby.
Many aspiring (and registered) architects around the world have been calling for the radical reform of the architect registration process. ADR's contributing online editorial assistant, Wesley Perrott, looks at changes being made in architectural registration in the UK and US, in comparison with Australia.
Notions of cultural preservation and continuing local architectural traditions are at work in OVP's alteration of a Federation-era timber Queenslander in Brisbane’s West End. This project was featured in AR135 - Elements.
The interest in documenting abandoned buildings with crumbling structures and desolate atmospheres has been a subject of much debate recently. An article by Shayari De Silva.
Lyons Architecture's innovative window system at MS2 UTAS provides conceptual links to the landscape of Hobart while supporting critical thought for the researchers within the building. This project was featured in AR135–Elements.
We look at one of UNStudio's recent projects in Singapore – the Ardmore Residence. The landscaping of this 36-storey luxury residential tower has given the city a character akin to a large park.
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