Featuring a monolithic washbasin counter, greenery, and irrigation sourced from grey water, the White Grotto washroom, designed by Ida & Billy, aims to become a benchmark in the commercial and retail sectors for sustainable design.
ADR is happy to announce that inside #94 is now available. With the Overall Winner of IDEA 2016, Indigo Slam by Smart Design Studio, on the cover, the magazine is full of beautiful interiors and industry information. inside #94 also includes a bonus magazine featuring all IDEA 2016 winners, as well as a broadsheet paper.
Image above, Westpac Barangaroo by Geyer – winner of the Sustainability award at IDEA 2016. Photo by Richard Glover. Sustainability is a term that gets loosely thrown about; it forms a standard part of the built environment lexicon, but in many cases it is just a feature, not a driving factor. Orientation, solar consideration, thermal […]
Quiet, hushed whispers, padded footsteps and ‘please be quiet’ signage – these are the usual suspects of a library space. But the brief received by ARM Architecture for the Geelong Library and Heritage Centre was something slightly different. “The librarians’ brief was for a contemporary people environment. That means moving away from the traditional model of a library […]
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