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BVN plants the seeds of a green future
One of the world's best-known furniture manufacturers, Wilkhahn, recently celebrated its 111-year anniversary, with the ...
Landscape and technology combine to make people-friendly streets
If Chris Isles thought “a good street is a place that prioritises people over cars” before the recent Future Street inst...
Intelligent building technology, inside and out
When it comes to building materials, the latest developments increasingly revolve around prefabrication and modular buil...
GreenTag’s new ‘PhD’ helps stakeholders become product risk scholars
Global GreenTag's Product Health Declaration tool is the “first system globally to assess the health impacts of the fina...
Medium-density house styles and stand-out high-rises
“[The] Asian design sensibility will help us create better buildings as our cities densify," says Leone Lorrimer, CEO of...
Trials of changing the energy status quo: alternative harnessing technologies in focus
When alternative energy is an alternative to a country’s staple resources you can hear the economic and political rumbli...
Product medley mixes information technology, sustainability and humanity
The new and the ongoing highlight some recent clever extras from researchers and school students.
No holding back the green cities momentum
Organised by the Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA) and the Property Council of Australia (PCA), the 11th annual...
Let's show creativity – women are best to rise above the statistics
Eliis Jones, a social media and impact agency, suggests that creative spaces create ideas. The openness to follow ideas ...
Do not let noise ruin your hospitality and eating experience
Hospitality, the ultimate customer experience, often seems to backfire in the buzzy, atmosphere of a trendy restaurant. ...
Around the town: Thriving on different influences, materials and cultures
The rooster has doodle-dooed across Sydney, on lampposts, street corners and roadsides.
Smart cities need leadership to further policy, technology, planning and potential
Little in smart is straightforward. Take home delivery. A phone swipe away to order but the delivery itself can get caug...
Interiors: how they look and how they make you feel
When housing costs 12 times the average income, making the most of what you have becomes incredibly enticing.
Streets at their best energise, structure and beautify a city
Streets, even from the air and in outline only, with their structure and certainty, can reassure that life somehow is co...
The all-important interplay between humans and nature
Nearly half of millennials would take a pay cut to work in a field they are passionate about, according to research from...
On trend: inventive uses and re-uses of buildings, shelters and vans
Invention won them over at the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2016 National Architecture Awards with the judges pra...