Billard Leece Partnership (BLP) has been granted the role of Lead Architect for the initial design phase of the Queensland Cancer Centre (QCC), ringing in a new era of cancer care in the Sunshine State. Located on the existing campus of the Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital (RBWH) on Turrbal and Yuggera Country, the QCC […]
Pakenham Railway station achieves unprecedented sustainability and building precision through a decade-long collaboration between architectural firm Genton and design, engineering, and manufacturing company ShapeShift. The groundbreaking digital fabrication technology applied to Pakenham Station uses thermoset, a digitally engineered synthetic that strengthens when heated, as a sustainable agent that saves on time and materials. Genton principal […]
Michael Alvisse, co-founder of award-winning design studio Schamburg+Alvisse, will take on the role of sustainability judge in this year’s IDEA jury panel. He will join Brooke Lloyd, Melissa Bright, Davina Bester and Graham Charbonneau on the jury of the 2024 Interior Design Excellence Awards (IDEA). Early bird entries to IDEA have now closed, but you […]
Over the past two months, the Interior Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) team has been working strategically behind the scenes to refine the criteria for some of the categories. The new criteria for the Sustainability Award represent a direct response to the fact that sustainable design is about far more than materials alone. IDEA is, as […]
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