Clare Cousins, lead architect and founder of her award-winning eponymous architecture practice, has been named as the chairperson for IDEA 2024. People, like buildings, have a particular energetic quality, from larger-than-life extroversion to diminutive quietness and everything in between. The energy of award-winning architect and IDEA 2024 chairperson Clare Cousins is one of calm, considered, […]
Last month, we announced the IDEA 2022 winners at The Timber Yard in Melbourne. The winner in the prestigious Residential Single category, sponsored by Halliday & Baillie, was Clare Cousins Architects for Stable & Cart house. Originally a stable and cart store, Stable & Cart house is a sensitive adaptation in North Melbourne. The design […]
Port Phillip Council in Melbourne is calling for nominations for its biennial City of Port Phillip Design and Development Awards 2020, presented in conjunction with the National Gallery of Victoria’s Melbourne Design Week. The nominations are for awards that have been held every two years since 1998. The awards encourage and celebrate design excellence in urban design, […]
Currently in Australia, residential investment represents around 35 percent of all housing finance, with the majority being centred on resale. While that figure may seem relatively unremarkable, couple it with a changing housing marketplace and it is sending a ripple effect through the architectural industry’s approach to design. Thirty years ago, a home used to […]