A covered outdoor community space, change rooms, kiosk and public toilet sit under one “civic scale” roof in the Marsden Park Amenities by CHROFI. The project took out the Robert Woodward Award for Small Project Architecture at the 2020 New South Wales Architecture Awards this week, where it was praised for its “ephemeral and playful” […]
Taking subtle cues from Japanese Machiya townhouse, Studio Haptic’s Mathew Mariani designed his family home to test “the efficiency of smaller housing models”. Applied to a narrow, long site typical of inner west Sydney, Leichhardt Machiya offers a variant to the typical ‘gun barrel’ terrace houses of the area. “The house draws on the Kyo-Machiya in […]
There is not much time left to enter ADR and Herman Miller‘s $30,000 competition to win one of 16 Aeron chairs, valued at $1860 each. The contest is now closed. We’re challenging you to consider how a Herman Miller Aeron chair would improve ergonomics in your home office. To enter, all you have to do is answer this […]
Virginia Kerridge Architects has used recycled materials to create a “durable, sustainable and beautiful” redesign of a Robin Boyd-winning home in Sydney. Grant Pirrie House was originally built in the 1890s as a timber warehouse. More than 100 years later, the property was refurbished by Sydney architect Graham Jahn, earning him the 1999 Robin Boyd […]
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