Tag: Environment
“Every man’s work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture, or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.” – Samuel Butler For Gerald Matthews, managing director and senior architect at Adelaide-based architecture practice Matthews Architects, these words from English novelist Samuel Butler could not be more appropriate. As a self-confessed audiophile, Matthews […]
Melbourne’s Monash Woodside Building for Technology and Design heads up a selection of 17 “exemplary sustainable projects” in the Build Better Now Virtual Pavilion. Timed to coincide with the COP26 climate summit, which closes in Glasgow this week, the project is being led by the UK Green Building Council with 100 partner organisations from the […]
Image above, Smith House by environa studio, features optimum orientation and solar access. Image courtesy the architect. Jan O’Connor of environa studio, an expert in the world of sustainability, discusses the intangible new parameters qualifying sustainability. Gillian Serisier: Five years ago sustainability meant solar panels. But now we’re at a very different place in the […]
Above: Marion Mahony Griffin, one of the first licensed female architects in the world. Image courtesy Parlour/National Library of Australia PIC/9929/2046. Parlour has announced the launch of Marion’s List, a new public register for the women of Australian architecture and the built environment. “We need never again accept the excuse, ‘We asked a woman, but she wasn’t available’,” says […]
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