Australian architecture practice Plus Studio has launched AdaptAbility, a new data-led tool that identifies underutilised commercial buildings in Melbourne with untapped potential for adaptive reuse. When we get a stain on our clothes, we wash them. When we get a rip in our jeans, the sensible thing to do is to mend them. But when […]
HDR’s architecture practice in Australia has identified seven ‘megatrends’ increasingly shaping architectural solutions across the country and beyond. Below, managing principal Huai Lim outlines those conclusions, drawn from HDR’s work and conversations with clients, stakeholders and collaborators across the industry, as well as what the practice is seeing emerge globally. In 2026, architecture will be […]
Australian Design Review (ADR) is heading to Bali this week with the 30UNDER30 Architects and Innovators of the Built World for 2023/2024. To celebrate, we are getting to know this exciting multidisciplinary cohort, the passions that drive their work and what makes them tick creatively. Hugo Chan’s passion for architecture materialises through various roles in […]
Architects everywhere are enthusiastically taking up the challenge of adaptive reuse to ensure that our civic landscapes are resilient to changing times and compounding emergencies. Two opposing forces are planting architects in the middle of what one sustainable design expert calls a “built environment contradiction”. On the one hand, the United Nations estimates that three […]
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