Our Solarpunk future
If we do not or cannot envision the future we want, how can we create it? For many of us, it’s all too easy to imagine the terrible, particularly as we witness the damage caused as we edge up towards 1.5°C of global heating today.
Architecture as a system: Designing for regenerative development
As architects and designers, our role extends far beyond creating aesthetically pleasing structures; we are stewards of the built environment, responsible for shaping spaces that harmonise with the world around us. In the quest for sustainability and regenerative development, the architectural design process must undergo a transformative evolution.
The importance of Gender Impact Assessments in shaping future cities
The Royal Commission into Family Violence and resultant legislation has brought about changes to the way that built environment professionals are required to approach design. The legislation provides frameworks to help ensure we are addressing important issues regarding gender inclusivity. Understanding and addressing gendered outcomes is now a mandatory responsibility.
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.
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.
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.
Yakimono: Russell & George
A layered sensory experience, Russell & George’s Yakimono draws on the experience of a typical late-night Izakaya to plate-up a restaurant that is reminiscent of Japanese concepts, without the stuffiness of tradition.