Pakenham Railway station achieves unprecedented sustainability and building precision through a decade-long collaboration between architectural firm Genton and design, engineering, and manufacturing company ShapeShift. The groundbreaking digital fabrication technology applied to Pakenham Station uses thermoset, a digitally engineered synthetic that strengthens when heated, as a sustainable agent that saves on time and materials. Genton principal […]
The new ‘Namedropping’ exhibition, running until April 2025 at Tasmania’s Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), is displayed in a correspondingly “bold and unapologetic” context courtesy of experience designers Art Processors. Exhibition design director Tara McDonough walks Australian Design Review (ADR) through the design’s intent and the unique freedom of making a MONA exhibition. […]
When architect Sarah Waller designed and built her first dream home, it was met with wide acclaim. Her new creation, Blackwood Doonan, represents her quest to continually challenge herself with a robust piece of architecture. One might be forgiven for thinking that Sarah Waller and her family would have lived out the rest of their […]
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