ADR contributor Sara Kirby speaks with recently appointed Victorian government architect Jill Garner about the most fulfilling projects in her career, her new role and her views on Melbourne as Australia's "only real residential major city".
Technology is here to help not hinder and Anthony Caruana, editor of MacWorld, has compiled a list of eight essential apps for architects and designers that will make life easier with the touch of a finger.
This apartment, within the historically significant Foy and Gibson warehouse complex, had over time succumbed to a series of dubious conversions. Breathe Architecture reignites the space while sparking connections with the past.
Chris Bosse, principal of LAVA, and Eva Krane, cultural attaché at bleux design studio, share their notes from this year's World Architecture Festival in Singapore.
The Double Courtyard House by Vokes and Peters is an exercise in drawing the extraordinary out of the ordinary. The challenge was to find solutions to a complex client brief that required a mix of public and private space, while simultaneously anchoring an elevated building and delivering expansive, yet controlled, views.
The Abstract is an ambitious interior architecture exhibition project exploring unorthodox spatial realms of reading rooms, designed by Monash University Interior graduates in collaboration with Matthew Bird of Studiobird. The exhibition reinvents the tradition of a reading room environment within a gallery context to promote prestigious academic journals with the aim to engage early career academics to the realties and benefits of publishing.
Fashion and architectural worlds will collide this Saturday as Monash University students present 11 remarkable outfits inspired by the city’s interiors at MPavilion.
The winners of the Australian Institute of Architects’ National Architecture Awards were announced at a ceremony in Brisbane last week, with ARM and emerging architects Liz Walsh and Alex Nielson and Jesse Bennett Architect among the exemplary practices awarded.
As the first studies for Seascape were for “a bed and a fire and a cave to fit them in”, New Zealand architect Andrew Patterson must surely have contemplated Henry David Thoreau’s maxim: “Consider first how slight a shelter is absolutely necessary.”
“The design was intended to preserve the past and provide an expertly crafted and intelligently designed space,“ says RotheLowman project leader Geoff Cowap.
The stellar project is Casba, a medium-density infill development in Sydney’s inner west, designed by SJB in conjunction with Billard Leece Partnership, with interiors by BKH.
The Dune House, located in the coastal suburb of Omaha, is an hour north of Auckland. The client’s brief to Fearon Hay was for “a house by the beach, not a beach house”, and the result is certainly uniquely executed.
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