Category: Architecture
A grove of mature native trees determined the plan of a new community hall for Randwick Council in Sydney’s eastern suburbs by Sam Crawford Architects (SCA). According to director Sam Crawford, the site of the new Matraville Youth and Community Hall contained 18 mature native trees – a mix of banksia, paperbark, blackbutt and casuarina. […]
Placemaking. Wayfinding. Navigation. Getting from A to B. When done well, it feels as if an invisible hand is gently guiding each person in the direction they need to go. For more than 20 years, Soren Luckins, founder of Melbourne-based Büro North, together with partner Brooke Murray and their team have been this invisible guiding […]
A groundbreaking initiative could revolutionise how communities recover from disasters by providing quicker access to high-quality temporary homes that are both sustainable and cost-effective. This bio-based housing system, designed in a collaboration between researchers, government agencies and industry partners, incorporates waste cardboard and locally sourced, underutilised timber to create innovative structural panels. The project, led […]
Designer Alison Page speaks to Australian Design Review (ADR) about her new book, Design and Building on Country: First Knowledges for Younger Readers, co-authored with anthropologist and architect Paul Memmott. “I’m really obsessed with training up a new generation of Aboriginal designers,” Alison Page tells ADR. It’s a mission self-evident in the Walbanga and Wadi […]
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