Cera Stribley’s head of Landscape Design has a plan for turning a disused rail corridor into a landscaped trail through Melbourne’s eastern suburbs, connecting people to place and history. A new multi-residential development at the site of the former Barkers Station, in Kew, has been approved by the City of Boorondara. Tucked into that approval […]
Zac Vassallo is an industrial designer at Reef Design Lab, a company that develops marine habitat infrastructure for a range of research and commercial applications. It’s a perfect fit for someone who has a firm conviction that “man-made creative objects should justify their existence in the world”. Named as one of Australian Design Review‘s 30UNDER30 for […]
With the construction industry contributing nearly 40 percent of all annual waste within Australia, sustainable measures are needed to reduce the amount of construction material destined for landfill, in turn feeding a more circular economy. The interior fitout sector is a complicated, labour-intensive aspect of the construction industry and poses a very practical challenge: how […]
As Brisbane prepares to host the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the real opportunity goes well beyond sport. The Olympics offer a once-in-a-generation chance to reshape the city, not just physically, but culturally and socially, writes Andrew Hoyne. This is city shaping and placemaking on steroids. Not the banned kind, but the stuff that cuts […]
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