Richard Hassell, director of Singapore-based practice, WOHA – pioneer of sustainable, tall buildings – talks to AR magazine about liveability, high-rise in the tropics and a new book that explores both.
Renowned paper engineer Benja (Paperform), has created the chapel, which he describes as a "cross between architecture and poetry", for Australia’s first art and design led funeral home.
Will future architects be called upon to provide design thinking consultancy as their primary output? Michael Smith, director of Atelier Red + Black, gives his insight on the thought-provoking conversations held at the National Conference in Adelaide.
Branch Studio's name refers to its orchard setting and also to an energetic, open-ended growth of design services, with founders Brad Wray and Nicholas Russo keen for the practice to develop offshoot services in graphic and furniture design. Sandra Tan takes a look at some of the practice's best work for AR magazine.
In the latest issue of AR magazine, Ray Edgar speaks to Dr Kate Shaw, an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow whose current research focuses on urban regeneration in the 21st century.
Designed by Melbourne architectural firm Kavellaris Urban Design (KUD), a new mixed-use urban village, which will include Melbourne's first elevated Olympic running track, has been revealed as part of a planned $600 million development in Footscray.
"We’re facing a crisis. I call it ‘ecofatigue’. Many architects and designers feel sustainability is a bit of a fad, or a style. Almost constraining enough to rebel against." Steele Associates architect and founder, Oliver Steele, discusses the challenges and rewards of innovating sustainable home design.
A new housing development in Glenroy provides a living space for Victorians who have been seriously injured in road accidents, designed by Melbourne architectural practice Hayball.
MEZZANINE magazine takes a journey through the personal work of a select group of Australia’s leading interior and architecture photographers, to discover the works they create for the walls they inspire.
Architects in Perth are like sailors, taking their tactical cues from the skies and winds, to deliver homes that do more than merely shelter. MEZZANINE explores a selection of homes that are designed to incorporate and take complete advantage of their natural surrounds.
London's first wooden skyscraper, designed by PLP Architecture in collaboration with Cambridge University’s Department of Architecture, could become a reality after plans for the design were recently put to Mayor Boris Johnson for consideration.
With open-plan living on the way out and our homes becoming hubs for multifunctional inter-generations, MEZZANINE magazine explores how the facilitation of privacy and social interaction inspires the decisions architects and designers make when forming the spaces we inhabit.
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