Tag: design
Understanding residents before drawing a single line is Helen Kuo’s secret to build to rent success Australia’s build-to-rent (BTR) scene is waking up to a new kind of ambition as architects and developers move past templated briefs toward design shaped by evidence, behaviour and the real lives of future residents. FK partner Helen Kuo sits […]
Escea’s next-generation holographic fireplaces bring unprecedented realism and design freedom to Australian interiors. When architects and interior designers specify a fireplace, they are making a statement about the space as much as the product but, until now, that statement has come with constraints. Flues, clearances, structural considerations and planning restrictions have dictated where fire can […]
A single specification change is all it takes to make a significant carbon saving, and Crafted Hardwoods is proving that timber glazing systems are ready for prime time. There’s a point in a project where the easy wins are done and the conversation turns to what really adds up. That was exactly the position Crafted […]
A carpenter turned construction veteran, John Hill has spent a career absorbing the lessons of great architects, and has finally applied them to one measured yet disruptive house on a north-east Victorian farm. There are builders who work for architects, and then there is John Hill, a man who spent four decades absorbing their thinking […]
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