Category: Architecture
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 […]
As part of Ballarat International Foto Biennale’s fringe program, architectural photographer Rhiannon Slatter will exhibit her new series BUILD – an exhibition that investigates the aesthetics of construction and explores the visual language of the construction boom. ADR catches up with Slatter ahead of the exhibition to find out more.
This week we meet Gerald Matthews, managing director at Matthews Architects, which his father founded in 1975. Matthews discusses how a shipwreck inspires his work, what it's like taking charge of the family business, and the importance of cross-pollination.
Alexandra Buchanan talks to AR about the Hawthorn house, a weatherboard cottage that was once dark and tired, but is now filled with character, dappled in sunlight and serving the needs of the family residing within it.
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