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DKO has released designs for one of the first projects to take shape at YarraBend in Melbourne. YarraBend is a 16.5-hectare development in Melbourne’s inner suburbs. YarraBend gained attention in June 2016 when it was announced that it would be one of the first battery-powered green precincts, incorporating Tesla’s Powerwall technology. In December several prominent […]
Assembly is more than your average apartment building. Living here, you are presented with not just a home to live in, but also a community, a connection to the surrounding precinct and amenities that make saying 'hi' to your neighbour inevitable.
Bookings for Open House Brisbane's ticketed tours open this Thursday, 21 September, so ADR has compiled a list of some of the must-see homes and buildings from this year’s ticketed selection.
Thomas Bailey explains how the sheds and school buildings of country Tasmania sparked his love of architecture, a love that would eventually grow into him opening his own studio, Room 11.
Wedged between a regional train line and the town of Moe is the Frank Bartlett Library & Service Centre designed by fjmt. The new civic building has been named a Global Award winner at the Shaw Contract Design Awards. The five winners, chosen out of 497 entries, have been announced today. For an Australian project, the win […]
The shortlist has been revealed for the 2017 Australian Institute of Architects' National Architecture Awards. The competition this year received a record 983 entries across 14 categories, making it the largest of its kind in the southern hemisphere.
"Often it's the little detail here or concept there; that cool idea you got the client to agree to, that component or part of the programme that brings a sense of play, something that makes you stop and say, 'Cool'." ADR meets Kurt Crisp and Peter Ahern, co-founders and directors of buck&simple. The pair discusses how details can make a project, taking risky, but great leaps, and the thrill of being free of plans.
The physical result of design talent, solid collaboration and a touch of kismet, the Shadow house is a successful project in all senses – achieving beauty, preservation of Heritage, and resulting in a home that moulds snugly to the clients' lives.
Taking a focus on student health and well-being, BVN has designed the Artemis Centre at Melbourne Girls Grammar School.
The 10 Star home by Clare Cousins Architects and The Sociable Weaver is estimated to cost only $3 a year to run, and produced only three bags of landfill during its construction. Is it Australia's most sustainable home?
Professor Donald Bates chats with New York based Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto (Reiser + Umemoto).
The Fifty Fifty house: At first glance For the curious and perceptive people among us, there is a house in the inner suburbs of Melbourne that is not quite what it seems. At first glance, the brick façade appears just like all the other 1950s creations it’s surrounded by, but look again and that unassuming […]
“Tribe offers a high-end, designer hotel experience at an affordable rate. Unless you’re an expert on construction techniques you could stay in one of our offerings and you wouldn’t necessarily know it’s built using modular construction.” Tribe Hotel Group is applying the benefits of prefabrication to bring a fresh, international approach to the hotel industry.
"We can see that [prefabrication] is going to become the way of the future." Prefab is allowing buildings to take shape in new and different ways than ever before.
A great merger is like a great marriage, with two parties finding they are better together than they were on their own. But how do you find the one who will be the right fit? Paul Gillett and Dimitty Andersen of Grieve Gillett Andersen say their experience was very like a courtship. And so far it's been a very happy marriage indeed.
"Since opening, we have been asked to host weddings, parties and even a funeral wake." Paul Gillett of Grieve Gillett Andersen and his client discuss the Petaluma Cellar Door, designed by the studio in 2015.
"Mother Nature is the greatest architect." ADR talks to Steele Olney, founding director of Studio Dot, a practice that he named after his daughter. Olney discusses how travel made him a rounded architect, designing his family home, and his teenage dream of designing cars.
A bird’s nest, a bundle of tagliatelle, a meringue or even a Slinky. These are some of the descriptions Sydney residents have hit on to describe preliminary images of Darling Exchange. Designed by world-acclaimed Japanese architects Kengo Kuma and Associates (KKA) for Lendlease, the civic building, due for completion in 2018, will be wrapped in […]
The 11th edition of Sydney Architecture Festival is gearing up to take place from Friday 29 September until Monday 2 October (World Architecture Day). The annual event brings together talks, tours and exhibitions that delve into the city’s architectural highlights – brutalism, multi-culturalism and the future of suburbia. Coming under the banner of #futureheritage the […]
Almost four years after a fire tore through St Kilda’s iconic Stokehouse, the venue has risen again – designed by Robert Simeoni Architects in collaboration with industrial designers TILT. The restaurant, spread over two levels, sits just a few metres from one of Melbourne’s most famous beaches, yet the new building doesn’t try to imitate […]
Baracco+Wright Architects’ and Linda Tegg have been announced as the 2018 creative directors for the Australian Pavilion at the 16th International Architecture Biennale in Venice with their winning proposal repair. The concept brings together a transdisciplinary team of architects, artists, landscape architects and ecologists as a response to the need for architecture to encourage new […]
Set atop an old lawn bowls club in Melbourne's Caulfield is a new multi-residential development – Cantala – which brings in open walkways and landscaping.
ADR chats to McDonough, founder of cradle-to-cradle, over the phone from the US to find out about some of his latest endeavours, including a newly rereleased carpet collection with Shaw Contract.
With battery storage now an affordable adjunct to solar power generation, ADR talks to Gold Coast-based architect Peter McArdle of ptma architecture, who installed a Tesla Powerwall in November last year, to find out how the economics of solar versus grid-based power supply stack up when you add a battery to the mix. When US […]
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