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Joining two townhouses, Splinter Society Architecture peeled back past renovations to place a soaring masonry and steel wall at the heart of this Melbourne home. Set back from the original Heritage facade, the three-storey glass entry of Three Stories North is an unexpected sight in the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy. Behind its front door – […]
Victoria will deliver a $5.3 billion Big Housing Build package to construct more than 12,000 new social housing homes throughout metro and regional Victoria over the next four years, supercharging Victoria’s economic recovery through the pandemic and beyond. This package will boost Victoria’s social housing supply by 10 per cent in just four years – […]
Conrad Gargett has announced the promotion of four of its current senior associates to principals, taking the national architecture firm’s total number of principals to fourteen across studios in Brisbane, Melbourne, Newcastle, Sydney, Townsville and Addis Ababa. Lada Bodnaruk, Brent Sanders, Amanda Kershaw and Paul Emmett have been promoted to principals, bringing with them a […]
The first two months of Melbourne’s MPavilion 2020 season feature an array of events exploring architecture and design culturally and aesthetically, but also politically and economically with a focus on urban planning, landscape and history. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, festival organisers made the decision not to commission a new pavilion, but to re-use […]
Global architecture firm Grimshaw has partnered with BPI Rating, the construction material data platform, to co-develop a solution to integrate sustainability and responsible sourcing into the practice’s material selection. The partnership is designed to assist Grimshaw’s ambition to reach carbon neutrality in their practice by 2020 and deliver zero carbon ready buildings and infrastructure by […]
The winners for the 2020 ArchiTeam Awards have been announced in an innovative virtual exhibition created by ArchiTeam members. “As is true for many businesses, 2020 has been a tough year for architects,” says ArchiTeam CEO, Phoebe La Gerche-Wijsman, “but our members are uniquely placed to respond and adapt to these times.” “With Victorian members […]
The International Photography Awards (IPA) has announced the winners of its 2020 competition, including the 1st prize recipients of its eight professional architecture photography categories. An international jury of renowned photography experts judged a total of 13,000 entries from 120 countries around the world, across various genres and styles. Many of the submissions documented the […]
Opened on the 7 November at the Museum of Sydney, Paradise on Earth reimagines the extraordinary architecture career of Marion Mahony Griffin and her deep connection to the natural environment. Born in Chicago in 1871, Marion Mahony Griffin was the second female architect to graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a landscape architect […]
Four billion dollars in new or expedited funding for 98 housing program initiatives were announced by Australian governments due to the coronavirus pandemic between March and June 2020. The new report from AHURI, ‘Policy coordination and housing outcomes during COVID-19’, led by researchers from Swinburne University of Technology analysed the scale and range of policy […]
A centerpiece of the 2020/21 MPavilion MTalks program is the fourth installment of the BLAKitecture forum. The talk series foregrounds the voices of Indigenous built environment practitioners, gathering on the Yaluk-ut Weelam land of the Boon Wurrung people to delve deeply into architecture’s obligations to Country. What questions should architects ask themselves before building in […]
MPavilion kicks off in Melbourne on 12 November with festival goers set to enjoy the season on STOOL DOLLY by interior designer and architect Holly Board in partnership with Peter Grove. Designed in collaboration with Melbourne Fringe’s Fringe Furniture program, the MPavilion 2020 stool is part of the festival’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. “Responding […]
International architecture practice Farrells has unveiled its recently completed One Excellence development in the heart of Shenzhen’s new Qianhai district. The project totals 757,000m2 and sets a global precedent for future mixed use, high-density urbanism – with social and green space at its heart.Central to the scheme are the multi-level streetscapes which create lively interplays […]
In connection with World Habitat Day 2020, UN-Habitat launched its partnership with the Norwegian startup Othalo that has patented a technology that makes it possible to produce building elements from 100% recycled plastic. The United Nations Human Settlements Program has found 1.6 billion people around the world live in inadequate housing, with data reporting that […]
The Pritzker Architecture Prize, architecture’s highest honor, has announced the appointments of Alejandro Aravena as jury chair and Manuela Lucá-Dazio as the next executive director, beginning in March 2021. “Throughout the history of the Prize, we have consistently relied on the diversity, expertise and standing of our jury members to interpret the evolving role of […]
Unveiled today at Melbourne’s Birrarung Marr, Sukkah is a pop-up meeting place collaboratively designed by The Jewish Museum of Australia and leading architect and designer Zahava Elenberg. Representing a symbol of community, connection and reflection as the city’s Covid-19 restrictions lift, the vibrant prismatic structure forms a kaleidoscopic canopy and offers a place for visitors […]
Architecture’s reticence to change cannot afford to extend to website content. It is time for the industry to innovate beyond project detail posts and director Q&As. Here are four alternatives. As a business practice, architectural culture is fantastically slow to change. The industry puts on and takes off styles and design trends with ease, but […]
Designed by Sydney-based Contreras Earl Architecture, the Living Coral Biobank aims to secure the long-term future and biodiversity of corals worldwide which are under severe threat due to climate change. The new building typology – a ‘living ark’ – will be the only dedicated facility of its kind in the world and will be located at […]
Frasers Property Australia has announced the appointment of Anita Hoskins to the position of Chief Financial Officer. Formerly CFO of Carnival Australia, part of Carnival Corporation & plc, one of the world’s largest leisure travel companies, Hoskins replaces Anthony Boyd in the role, who officially took over from Rod Fehring as Chief Executive Officer on […]
BTVV has designed a speculative interior as part of the NGV Triennial that pokes fun at Melbourne’s ubiquitous, low-quality property development, while also teasing our penchant for homogeneous, white on white interiors. The installation builds on the group’s Svizzera 240: House Tour exhibition, which took home the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale’s Golden Lion, and will […]
Golden Age Group has revealed the first look of its boutique commercial office building on Little Collins Street in Melbourne. The project is a collaboration between Cox Architecture, Hecker Guthrie and Jack Merlo Reaching 27-levels high, the state-of-the-art building is designed as a vertical community that intertwines lifestyle and corporate, and is expected to set […]
Well prior to establishing Melbourne-based Kosloff Architecture in 2017, founders Julian Kosloff and Stephanie Bullock knew they wanted to align their practice with the principles of a B Corp. “It was one of the first decisions we made,” says Bullock. “The first question we asked ourselves is ‘what do we want this to be?’ The […]
The coronavirus pandemic will encourage designers to “rethink what hospitality is and what it means to travel,” says BAR Studio architect and communications director Rowena Hockin. Hockin tells ADR the industry has been focused on “the death of the buffet” when it could be looking at how it can increase the “depth of engagement” felt […]
The shortlist for the Think Brick Awards has been announced, celebrating excellence in the use of clay brick, concrete masonry and roof tiles by Australia’s best architects and designers. This year marks the Think Brick Awards 14th year recognising the important contributions that architects, builders, bricklayers, block layers and manufacturers make to the process of […]
Japanese architecture firm SANAA has unveiled its design for the new standalone extension of the Art Gallery of NSW overlooking Sydney Harbour. The Art Gallery of NSW has been working with SANAA to develop their design for the Sydney Modern building since an international competition jury unanimously selected the team as preferred architects in 2015. […]
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