"We can see that [prefabrication] is going to become the way of the future." Prefab is allowing buildings to take shape in new and different ways than ever before.
A great merger is like a great marriage, with two parties finding they are better together than they were on their own. But how do you find the one who will be the right fit? Paul Gillett and Dimitty Andersen of Grieve Gillett Andersen say their experience was very like a courtship. And so far it's been a very happy marriage indeed.
"Since opening, we have been asked to host weddings, parties and even a funeral wake." Paul Gillett of Grieve Gillett Andersen and his client discuss the Petaluma Cellar Door, designed by the studio in 2015.
"Mother Nature is the greatest architect." ADR talks to Steele Olney, founding director of Studio Dot, a practice that he named after his daughter. Olney discusses how travel made him a rounded architect, designing his family home, and his teenage dream of designing cars.
A bird’s nest, a bundle of tagliatelle, a meringue or even a Slinky. These are some of the descriptions Sydney residents have hit on to describe preliminary images of Darling Exchange. Designed by world-acclaimed Japanese architects Kengo Kuma and Associates (KKA) for Lendlease, the civic building, due for completion in 2018, will be wrapped in […]
The 11th edition of Sydney Architecture Festival is gearing up to take place from Friday 29 September until Monday 2 October (World Architecture Day). The annual event brings together talks, tours and exhibitions that delve into the city’s architectural highlights – brutalism, multi-culturalism and the future of suburbia. Coming under the banner of #futureheritage the […]
Almost four years after a fire tore through St Kilda’s iconic Stokehouse, the venue has risen again – designed by Robert Simeoni Architects in collaboration with industrial designers TILT. The restaurant, spread over two levels, sits just a few metres from one of Melbourne’s most famous beaches, yet the new building doesn’t try to imitate […]
Baracco+Wright Architects’ and Linda Tegg have been announced as the 2018 creative directors for the Australian Pavilion at the 16th International Architecture Biennale in Venice with their winning proposal repair. The concept brings together a transdisciplinary team of architects, artists, landscape architects and ecologists as a response to the need for architecture to encourage new […]
Set atop an old lawn bowls club in Melbourne's Caulfield is a new multi-residential development – Cantala – which brings in open walkways and landscaping.
ADR chats to McDonough, founder of cradle-to-cradle, over the phone from the US to find out about some of his latest endeavours, including a newly rereleased carpet collection with Shaw Contract.
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.
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