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Part two of our Working from Home video series sees messages from book-filled offices and interruptions from furry friends, as we continue to hear from architects, designers and creatives across Australia and the world. In our first collection of videos, we heard from Alexander & CO. principal Jeremy Bull, The Stella Collective’s Hana Hakim, AB […]
Every day, we’re bombarded with news stories about the A&D industry responding to the coronavirus. Some of it is good news. Some of it, not so much. So to help you sift through all the developments from all over the world, ADR has put together a weekly update. It’ll be online every Friday afternoon, or […]
With family catchups and face-to-face socialising off the cards this long weekend, Hames Sharley has devised a guide for having a more meaningful and ethical, zero waste holiday while we’re all stuck inside. The Australia-wide team of architects, planners and interior designers put together a fun infographic with three environmentally and socially friendly tips that we […]
Created by Berlin-based Brazilian architect Daniel da Rocha, the Remote Architects Club is a forum for architects to share their remote working strategies and support one another as they decamp their offices. Long before the COVID-19 pandemic, Rocha had been interested in the unlocked potential of the architecture profession to move to remote work scenarios. “As […]
We reached out to our friends in the A&D community to give us a sneak peek into their workspaces in our new Working from Home video series. From Sydney to Melbourne, Japan to Perth and further afield, architects and interior designers share frank and honest updates, along with tips, advice and messages of hope and solidarity to […]
Research from Make Architects into the relationship between our built environment and loneliness achieves new salience in the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2013, Sydney-based studio Make Architects founded its Future Spaces Foundation (FSF) – a think tank dedicated to researching the socioeconomic, demographic and technological factors that impact our built environment. Delving deeply into transport networks, […]
Innovation in the digital sphere is on everybody’s minds, but how can you make it work for you? And where do you start? Statistics tell us that 92 percent of engineering and construction organisations spend less than four percent of their budget on digital research and development. It is clear that for too long spending […]
Web-based design and data generator Giraffe eases the tension between architects and automation. Started by a building designer, an urban planner, an engineer and a data scientist, Giraffe is an automation platform that sits at the intersection of these disciplines. The Sydney-based startup offers a web service that collocates automation design tools and data generation […]
In putting together our new video series, Working from Home, we asked architects and interior designers to film short clips of their home offices and share some tips. While chatting about the series, a few challenges kept popping up – at home distractions, concerns about the economy, worries about productivity and staying connected to colleagues. […]
The second pulse check survey from the Association of Consulting Architects Australia’s (ACA) reveals COVID-19’s profound impact on architecture practice workflow and employment arrangements. The Association of Consulting Architects Australia (ACA) first plus-check conducted in mid-March showed where architecture practices were preparing to feel the pain of COVID-19’s impact on economic and work arrangements. In […]
With Aussies encouraged to stay home to slow the spread of coronavirus, ADR has put together a list of architecture and design documentaries, podcasts and programs to stave off cabin fever. Business of Architecture and Design Podcast, 2019-2020 ADR’s own podcast, the Business of Architecture and Design chats to principals and directors about their journey from architecture student […]
Brisbane-based KP Architects has redesigned the Camden Valley Inn, located south-west of Sydney, paying homage to its history as a 1930s haunt. Originally built to promote the pure milk of Camden Park, the inn is now a restaurant and a luxury hotel. Set on five acres of land with views of the Razorback, it offers […]
Italy has been one of the countries hardest hit by the coronavirus outbreak. This Re-Use Italy competition is one way architects and designers worldwide can give back by lending their design talents to transforming a Roman ruin into a contemporary museum. The Reuse competition is now in its second edition. It inaugural edition called on […]
ADR compiles five services that will help architects and designers come out of the COVID-19 pandemic one step ahead. The impact of the escalating COVID-19 pandemic knows no bounds, cutting across industries and sending shockwaves through our health, economy, work cultures and social cohesion. Faced with such ubiquity, it can be difficult to know where […]
Anna Spiro, director and head interior designer at her eponymous studio, and Andrew Parr, founding director of SJB Interiors, bring their 20 years of experience setting the standard of Australian interior design to the 2020 IDEA Jury. Together with Brendan Wong, The Stella Collective’s Hana Hakim, Alexander & CO.’s Jeremy Bull, Luchetti Krelle’s Rachel Luchetti […]
From outlets to support Australian artists to creative-led webinars and face mask tutorials, here are 13 ways local architects and designers can help the design community during the coronavirus outbreak. Support the Biennale of Sydney From 6 April, the international contemporary art festival will be held daily over 10 weeks on the Biennale of Sydney’s website and […]
Woods Bagot has been chosen to lead a world-class team on the design and delivery of a new women’s and children’s hospital in Adelaide. The architecture firm will be joined by Bates Smart, Jacobs and UK-based BDP for the hospital’s design consortium. The four firms have a shared history of carefully delivered healthcare projects. “Bringing […]
For its second ‘pulse check’ survey, the Association of Consulting Architects (ACA) is seeking clarity on the impact of COVID-19 on practices and design studios so far. In its first survey, conducted two weeks ago, the ACA sought to understand what challenges architecture and design practices were anticipating as the COVID-19 pandemic worked its way […]
“Stay positive and protect your capital so that you can explode out of the gates when the market finds its new normal” is Alexander & CO. principal Jeremy Bull’s advice to practices dealing with the coronavirus outbreak. In the first of our Working from Home series, where we speak to Australian interior designers and architects […]
Gabriel Poole, Robin Boyd Award for Residential Architecture winner and 1998 Royal Australian Institute of Architecture Gold Medalist, passed away yesterday of natural causes aged 85. The Poole House, designed in 1962, while still a student draftsman in Robin Gibson’s office, was his first home in Brisbane’s Sherwood. In the 1970s, Poole established Atelier-Two-Designs with […]
Two years after designing a tool to calculate potential gender bias in English-language architectural and design terms, London-based architectural designer Hannah Rozenberg says the industry has not done enough to address its “insidious bias. “In 2018, when I presented my project, women occupied only 10 per cent of the highest-ranking jobs at the world’s leading […]
What does the $189 billion dollar stimulus package from the Federal Government mean for small and medium-sized architecture practices? As the COVID-19 pandemic works its way across the globe and through industries, clarity has been the catchcry of businesses already reeling from the pandemic’s financial fall-out. “There is an economic crisis that has been created […]
The IDEA 2020 early birds entry period has been extended to 30 April. That gives you an extra month to get your entries in and save $90. IDEA early bird entries were due to close later this week, but we’ve spoken to a lot of architects and interior designers who just need a little extra […]
Last week, we reached out to the architecture and interior design community to ask how we could help during the COVID-19 outbreak. At lot of people asked us for practical, industry-specific tips on working from home. For a lot of designers and architects, we know it’s uncharted territory and a scary one at that. Design […]
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