Off Grid House: Archier
Located within a treasured landscape, this origami-like family home envelops several generations under one roof while mimicking tones of the mountain rocks and the creek nearby.
Matsuyama + architect Hiroshi Sambuichi
Matsuyama, on Shikoku Island, is known as the City of Haiku, with heritage architecture associated with notable haiku poets.
Siedmiorogow Drugi + architect Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak
Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak’s earlier housing project, Maisonette Apartments, built in 1960, was a modernist undertaking and the first in Poland to have apartments spanning across two levels.
Hargeisa + architect Rashid Ali
I have recently come across the work of Rashid Ali, a London-based architect who has ancestral roots in Hargeisa. Knowing the struggles Somalia has had over the last three decades, I am inspired by architects like Rashid Ali who are willing to go back and rebuild Somalia.
What does the future city look like? Next question
A conversation between Mike Hewson and Sunday Hyde
Wilam Ngarrang Retrofit: Kennedy Nolan
The Wilam Ngarrang Retrofit, a minimal intervention renewal of a 1970s walk-up apartment block in Fitzroy, demonstrates the benefits of adaptation over demolition and the housing sector’s latency in turning toward the renewal of existing stock.
At home with photographer Tom Ross
What does the concept of home mean to you? Jeepers. All the clichés, about family I guess, but also I want it to act as a constant reminder of who we are, and where we’re trying to go.
Saigon + architect A21studio
A21studio is a small architectural practice in Saigon. Their work challenges the typical urban residence which is often detached from the Vietnamese lifestyle and climate.
Bendigo Law Courts: Wardle
Highlighting how the justice system in Australia has shifted, and how we might continue to grow in how we approach diversity, Bendigo Law Courts by Wardle studio respects all manners of reading justice. Deep listening, significant collaboration and consultation, as well as contextual analysis and interpretation are evident in Wardle’s copper and brick structure, with Bunjil the eagle rising above the consistent two-storey fabric of the historic centre of Bendigo, alongside the clock towers and spires of the town.
Radical resource custodianship
Circularity is a system of material re-use and regeneration where we ask: What resources have I got at our disposal to bring to life what I want to create? By shifting project thinking toward radical resourcefulness and resource custodianship, the inherent utility and beauty of materials is recognised, respected, and re-imagined.