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Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), together with Copenhagen Zoo, Schønherr Landscape Architects and consulting engineers MOE, has released designs for Copenhagen Zoo’s new Panda House. The structure is the second architecturally-designed enclosure to be constructed at Copenhagen Zoo, with Norman Foster having completed an award-winning elephant enclosure in 2008. The Panda House design bears a yin and yang […]
Rothelowman has submitted plans for a development application for Lunar, a $21m multi-residential development in Sydney. The building is the gateway to expansive green spaces with Royal National Park, Heathcote National Park and Dharawal National Park all lying close to the suburb, and the design works to harness these surrounds.
Hames Sharley architect and newly-appointed principal urban designer Andrew Russell believes that smart urban design and infrastructure planning will play a key role in positioning Adelaide as an economically vibrant, globally impressive city. Russell, who played key leadership roles in the Adelaide Entertainment Centre masterplan and redevelopment, the Adelaide Riverbank masterplan, and the award-winning Riverbank […]
In this issue of AR, Cate Cowlishaw, head of business at Bates Smart, talks about selling your work, Simon Nelson provides some tips on how to construct and develop a business plan and PR specialist Sharyn Lowe explains how and why the industry needs to utilise PR.
In this week's Q&ADR we meet with architectural photographer and creative Richard Glover and discover his passions and inspirations.
While some would dismiss his work as fanciful, Dan Phillips is proving how architects can close the loop.
The La Trobe Tower by Rothelowman is Australia’s tallest prefabricated high-rise structure, but the construction methods behind it is also breaking records.
Every week in our Q&ADR column, ADR interviews an architect, designer, object maker or industry person about who they are beyond the work – their life, inspiration, challenges and aspirations. This week we get inside the heads of Neill Johanson and Peter Wager, co-principals of Davenport Campbell. The pair share their insights into running a […]
ADR talks to Waugh about the future of CLT and why architects of the 21st century should be sitting up and taking notice.
A new $1.2 billion waterfront residential neighbourhood in Melbourne known as ‘Collins Wharf’ has been given ministerial approval. The new Victoria Harbour precinct is the latest Lendlease development project to be given a green light, located with the Yarra River to the south and Victoria Harbour to the north in a peninsular formation. The site […]
ADR shines a light on some of the women who’ve been blazing a trail on the Australian design scene. This is by no means an exhaustive list; simply a small snapshot of what is a great number of influential Australian female architects and designers. Brit Andresen As the first female recipient of the Australian Institute of […]
The 8 Phillip Street development is a rhomboid-shaped by Woods Bagot going up in Parramatta and will play host to Sydney's highest rooftop bar.
Every week in our Q&ADR column, ADR interviews an architect, designer, object maker or industry person about who they are beyond the work – their life, inspiration, challenges and aspirations. This week we catch up with the CEO of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA), Shahana McKenzie, about how she fell into the A&D […]
The future of Sirius, Sydney’s brutalist tower, is not looking bright. The boxy, concrete building is perched in a highly desirable location at The Rocks, sparking debate around the value of the land and its current use as social housing. In an effort to save the architectural merit of Sirius, the #SaveourSirius campaign is underway, […]
Sara Kirby talks to Lachlan Nielsen of Nielsen Workshop about his first project, the Tamborine House – a countryside home he designed and helped build for his parents, situated on a picturesque mountaintop.
Queensland architect Catherine Baudet has tonight been awarded the inaugural Paula Whitman Leadership in Gender Equity Prize for her outstanding support for women in the architectural profession spanning more than 30 years.
"The atrium is my favourite part of the design. It really makes you feel like you're in one environment and I think for the students, it will help them feel an ownership of the space." David Tweedie, director at Hayball, discusses the practice's latest vertical school project, which is situated in Melbourne's Richmond.
Diébédo Francis Kéré, founder of Kéré Architecture, has been announced as designer of the 2017 Serpentine Pavilion. The temporary summer pavilion, which was established by the Serpentine Galleries in 2000, is located in London’s Kensington Gardens in Hyde Park each year and designed by an architect who has not yet completed a building in England. […]
Back in 2002, while studying his architecture degree, Lachlan Nielsen began working for Brisbane-based James Russell Architect. He stayed with the studio for three years and, during his time there, he was introduced to the technique of combining architecture and construction – something he found he had an unrivalled passion for and sought to pursue. […]
The low-cost housing model coined Usonia was one of the manifestos of the self-professed ‘greatest architect of all time’ Frank Lloyd Wright.
ClarkeHopkinsClarke has designed a Wellbeing Centre to help young boys develop emotional intelligence and positive masculinity. In speaking to Ross Featherston, the headmaster of Brighton Grammar School, ADR discovers the role of design in promoting wellbeing in the school’s newly-opened Wellbeing Centre. The concept Funded through the generosity of donors, Brighton Grammar has officially opened […]
HASSELL, along with AL_A, PLP Architecture, Mace and Arup, has completed the workplace design for Sky Central, an inspiring 37,000 sqm NIA office space for international media firm Sky.
Often overlooked is the fact that many of the ideas of architects are patentable. And with a patent, the architect can obtain an ‘exclusivity’ for a 20-year term. So what sort of ‘architectural’ ideas are patentable?
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