Architecture
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Covering current challenges, micro-trends, ergonomics and new perspectives, ADR’s Workplace Design Trend Report is a must-read for all designers and architects. Launched at a breakfast panel event last week, the report provides a deep dive into the office design landscape now and in the future. Based on insight from a variety of design experts and academics the […]
The Gold Coast Suns Elite Training and Administration Facility was designed as a new home for the AFL team that breaks down the segregation of players, coaching staff and administrative staff. Designed by BVN the facility provides a new transparent and cohesive home for a young AFL team within the wider Gold Coast Sports Precinct. The ambition […]
The Interior design Excellence Awards (IDEA), Australia’s largest and most successful independent design awards program, launched its 17th iteration last evening at an event in South Melbourne. Launched by inside magazine in 2003, IDEA celebrates the best of Australian interior and product design across 14 categories and five Special Awards. “Each year the design bar is raised higher than […]
Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA) has snapped up the former general manager of sustainability and corporate procurement at Stockland, Davina Rooney, for the role of chief executive officer. GBCA chair Rod Fehring says Rooney’s “inspirational leadership capacity” together with her deep technical knowledge would enhance the organisation’s industry perspective as it furthered its goals to […]
Having designed the original playground 25 years ago, Gardiner Architects has designed the new Eltham North Playground after it burned down in 2017. The playground is part of a community recreational precinct and is an iconic landmark for the area. More than just playground, it is a community meeting place that caters for an age […]
As Studio Ongarato celebrates 25 years, ADR catches up with founders Fabio Ongarato and Ronnen Goren to talk about the practice’s design journey. What were the origins of Studio Ongarato? How did the studio begin? We both studied at RMIT University. Fabio Ongarato studied visual communication, where the emphasis was more on art direction rather than graphic […]
HASSELL has announced Jared Thorp, graduate of the Queensland University of Technology’s Bachelor of Design (Landscape Architecture), as the winner of the 2019 HASSELL Travelling Scholarship – Robin Edmond Award. Thorp was selected following interviews with 19 students, nominated by seven participating universities around Australia. His presented project, titled ‘ZOOSubverted’, challenges the traditional design of zoological […]
Woods Bagot has won an architectural competition to design a luxury hotel in Sydney, which the firm says is the “first luxury city hotel in 20 years”. Woods Bagot’s winning design for the hotel and office tower at 4-6 Bligh Street in central Sydney proposes “an extraordinary urban experience from street level to crown”. Competition […]
Japanese architect Arata Isozaki has received this year’s Pritzker Prize, widely considered to be the profession’s highest honour. The 2019 jury says: “Possessing a profound knowledge of architectural history and theory, and embracing the avant-garde, he never merely replicated the status quo, but his search for meaningful architecture was reflected in his buildings that to […]
The Australian Trellis Door Company (ATDC) recently completed a project for the members’ bar at the prestigious Cruising Yacht Club of Australia (CYCA) at Sydney’s Rushcutters Bay. The project required the installation of bar closure doors along a curved bar counter top. The CYCA is one of Australia‘s leading yacht clubs and is widely reputed […]
Geoff Hanmer, adjunct lecturer in Architecture, UNSW, weighs in on the landmark Lacrosse fire ruling, which could have industry-wide ramifications. On the last day of summer for 2019, the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) delivered a burst of sunshine to apartment owners at the high-rise Lacrosse building in the Melbourne Docklands precinct. Lacrosse suffered […]
Christopher Elliot Design has breathed new life into this Heritage school building where only minor structural changes were allowed. St Michael’s Grammar School had a problem. It had an ageing facility, Marlton House, and a group of youthful, vibrant students who used the rooms of the building as their classrooms. To create a space more […]
Four Australian universities have been ranked among the world’s top 25 schools for architecture according to the latest QS World University Rankings. The QS World University Rankings by Subject ranks the world’s top universities in individual subject areas, covering 48 subjects. QS says the rankings “aim to help prospective students identify the world’s leading schools in […]
When BLP designed Fujitsu Melbourne’s Headquarters, the brief was clear: to honour Fujitsu’s refined Japanese heritage and create a culture of ‘One Fujitsu’, while also incorporating the local Melbourne flavour into the design. BLP’s design took inspiration from Melbourne’s stylish population as a baseline, which manifests in the workplace in the form of crisp and […]
Molecule Studio has designed a new workplace in Sydney for wealth management firm Escala Partners, which is a “sibling space” to the Melbourne HQ both in functional brief and aesthetic design. The brief was to achieve a unique identity for the Sydney workplace, without creating a major deviation from the design characteristics executed in the […]
Beginning construction in September 2017, 828 Windsor Road is a brand new multi-residential development in the Greater Western Sydney Region, 43 kilometres north-west of the Sydney CBD. It comprises five buildings: A, B, C, D and E. The first three have been completed, with buildings D and E due for completion in early 2019. The […]
Architecture practice Precht, created by Penda co-founder Chris Precht and his wife Fei, has designed a skyscraper concept that would see residents produce their own food in vertical farms. Called The Farmhouse Precht designed the modular building system to combat the combined issues of climate change, population growth, and food shortages. It aims to create […]
Located in a former factory space and art gallery in Shanghai’s art district of Moganshan Road, Tingtai Teahouse is a traditional Chinese teahouse with a modern aesthetic. A traditional teahouse is made up of private rooms in which friends can gather to chat, socialise and enjoy the ritual of tea. To achieve this, architecture practice Linehouse stripped back the […]
The International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) has been named to Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies roster, which honours businesses making the most profound impact on both industry and culture. IWBI delivers the WELL Building Standard, the leading global rating system that focuses on the ways that buildings, and everything in them, can improve our comfort, drive […]
Melbourne-based Davidov Architects’ new studio fit-out is the first purpose-designed space for the young practice. The team wanted to design a series of spaces that convey the architectural devices and general approach to space that is evolving in its built work. The interior is divided into two core spaces: a meeting room and a workroom, with […]
The final report investigating the issues into Sydney’s Opal Tower has been released, blaming multiple design and construction faults. While the building has been confirmed as “overall” structurally sound, “significant” rectification works are necessary to ensure that the building and all its structural components satisfy building compliance. The final report, which was compiled by independent engineers John […]
Architecture and design practice Architectus has appointed Alan J Duffy to the growing leadership team as principal. Duffy, who will be based out of the practice’s Sydney studio, brings expertise in the design of education and learning projects. In addition to the education sector, he has cultivated his design and leadership skills over two decades […]
Hassell has designed a new showroom in Perth for furniture supplier Living Edge, a place it hopes will foster a stronger, more collaborative relationship with its clients. The new showroom is located at 7 Queen Street in the heart of Perth’s CBD and the building, constructed in the early 1900’s, has undergone an extensive renovation […]
Apartment living is an integral part of the fabric of life in Australia these days and the design and amenity that new developments offer is always stretching the boundaries offering more, bigger, better. Launched last week, Saint Moritz in St Kilda by Gurner is about to create a new paradigm in luxury living that is […]
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