The latest ADR breakfast event – Education Design for Primary and Secondary Schools – has sold out. ADR is looking forward to welcoming you at Prahran High School next week when the savviest design brains in the education space will talk about the state of play and the future trends for those looking to work in […]
Technē Architecture + Interior Design has announced the promotion of architect Sam Sempill to Associate. Sempill has worked at Technē for the past 16 months and has 15 years’ industry experience under her belt. Her project work has spanned a variety of sectors including hospitality, residential, commercial and education. “Sam is a great asset to […]
Designed by Luke Fry Architecture and Interior Design, this contemporary new home celebrates raw concrete and exposed brick, which is then layered with Japanese charred timber battens. With subtle references to Palm Springs mid-century modernism and contemporary pavilion structures, this Torquay beach house challenges the idea of a coastal home. Designed for a retired couple, […]
In the second episode of ADR’s The Business of Architecture and Design podcast, London based architect Ken Shuttleworth discusses the important roles that the finance, PR and HR teams play in an architecture practice and how his practice is trying to solve the gender pay gap. After launching our podcast series last week with part […]
The Association of Consulting Architects Australia (ACA) has brought back its National Salary Survey for 2019 and is this year opening it up to non-ACA members to gather more valuable and meaningful results. Independent and anonymous, the ACA National Salary Survey generates valuable data about remuneration and employment trends. The survey acts as a resource for […]
The design for theoretical and experimental physics research at University of Oxford achieved planning consent on one of the most sensitive sites in Oxford. Designed by Hawkins\Brown, the university’s vision was for a collaborative working environment that would sit alongside cutting edge laboratories. Architect’s statement The site allotted for the new building presented a number […]
Located on the rural plain between Mt Macedon and the ranges of Hanging Rock and JimJim, Braemar College’s new Middle School campus by Hayball creates a unique and nurturing place Architect’s statement Braemar College Middle School is specifically tailored to contemporary Middle School learning for 540 students in years 5-8. As stage one of a larger […]
The Business of Architecture and Design (BoAD) is a brand new one-day conference created to prepare practice leaders for success. Brought to you by the publisher of Australian Design Review (ADR) and Architectural Review (AR), BoAD is all about looking to the future. The A&D industry is evolving quickly and this conference has been designed to provide […]
Australian Design Review (ADR) is excited to announce the launch of the Business of Architecture of Design (BOAD) podcast series, created to help architectural and design practices run their businesses better. Each episode will bring you interviews with leading architects and designers who will share their business experiences and expertise and give you valuable insights into running […]
Lexus is calling on young creatives to enter its 2020 Design Awards, offering mentorships, funding for prototypes and the chance to exhibit at Milan Design Week. Now in its eighth year, the program aims to inspire innovations in design that ‘lead to a better tomorrow’. To enter the awards, entrants will need to demonstrate how their creative ideas […]
Australia’s first Passive House (Passivhaus) Certified apartment building, located 300m from Redfern station, will be officially launched by the Lord Mayor of Sydney on 17 September. Called The Fern, the 11 one-bedroom serviced apartments are the first in the country to be built using the German approach to home design that uses a combination of high-performance […]
Branding, wayfinding and placemaking firm Studio Ongarato has been selected to work on Beulah International’s Southbank project in Melbourne. The studio will work alongside Dutch architecture firm UNStudio and Melbourne-based Cox Architecture to deliver the visual identity for the project, which is composed of two twisting terraced forms. Conceived as an extension of Melbourne’s Southbank […]
Woods Bagot has designed Adelaide’s first micro-hotel to align with the new population of ‘creative thinkers’ being attracted to the city’s tech business hub, Lot Fourteen, located across the road. The 15-storey hotel located on the corner of Frome Street will feature 253 “high quality yet small” rooms designed for short-stay visitors and young tourists. […]
Lyons has designed a new hospital in Melbourne’s west, which is a lesson in salutogenic hospital design. Located within the Sunshine Hospital campus, the Joan Kirner Women’s and Children’s Hospital has been designed to reduce stress and enhance the experience of patients and families. The nine-storey design accommodates wide-ranging facilities including a birthing floor comprising 20 […]
Tel Aviv-based company, Vertical Field, is launching “the largest ever research study” on the impact smart living walls have on health and the environment in urban areas. Vertical Field, which provides smart living walls and vertical fields for leading companies like Facebook and Apple, has partnered with professor Itamar Lensky and colleagues from Bar-Ilan University […]
Designed by Ben Callery Architects, Elemental house is a low impact, off-grid retreat on an exposed ridgeline in High Camp, an hour north of Melbourne. Architect’s statement In a compact 10m x 10m footprint, this house has one bedroom, one bathroom and one living room. But while it shuns some of the excesses of modern […]
Woods Bagot has promoted Rhonda Mitchell and Jason Fraser to principal, with regional executive chair Kate Frear congratulating the pair on their ability to “seek out challenges, connection and choice”. Based in Melbourne and Sydney respectively, Mitchell and Fraser found architecture in different ways. After graduating with a fine arts degree, Fraser found himself “at odds […]
Architecture and design practice Architectus has completed the design of Stage 1 of Canberra’s new Light Rail network, Canberra Metro, which makes direct reference to the form of the Brindabella mountain range that is the backdrop to the city. Responding to the context and climate of Canberra, Architectus has created a “high quality, attractive and comfortable transport experience” […]
NTF Architecture has renovated a set of six identical 1960s flats in Blackburn, Melbourne, with a focus on texture, colour and reuse. The client inherited the flats and after assessing the development potential of the site, NTF Architecture decided that renovation of the existing dwellings would yield the best results. The challenge for the practice […]
Melbourne-based architecture practice MAKE has rebranded as Studio Bright to better reflect how it has evolved to be led solely by director Mel Bright. The 13-year-old business will continue to work on residential projects but will now also turn its attention to larger-scale builds, such as civic, educational and multi-residential. Director Mel Bright told ADR: “MAKE […]
Internationally-renowned architect, Glenn Murcutt, has been commissioned by Australian charity Royal Far West (RFW) to design its new beachfront headquarters at Manly. Murcutt will work closely with architect and designer Angelo Candalepas of Candalepas Associates, to create a “compelling and beautiful” campus for Royal Far West, to allow the 95-year-old charity to grow its work […]
The Design Institute of Australia (DIA) and Dulux Australia have announced the winners of their international design tour scholarship, the Dulux DIAlogue Tour. First awarded in 2016 and now in its fourth year, the tour will see five design professionals sent to Singapore and Portugal where they will have unique access to a variety of design projects, galleries, […]
The modular construction trend continues to gain pace, with hotel chain Marriot set to build the ‘world’s tallest modular hotel’ in only 90 days. Designed by Danny Forster & Architecture, the 168-room, 26-storey hotel will be built in New York City’s Sixth Avenue with prefabricated guestrooms arriving at the hotel site fully constructed, inside and out. […]