Deborah Singerman . Articles 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 continuing - and will continue. 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 REST Industry Super. 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 praising how many of the projects worked within limited means to demonstrate “architecture’s value in delivering a public benefit” and contributing “to our cities and regional centres”. Sculptures among trees and headstones bring a cemetery to life As well as being the 20th year of the rapturous Sculpture by the Sea, it is also the eighth year of a completely different sculpture walk, well away from coastlines and shores but no less arresting. HIDDEN’S 43 works are carefully selected and carefully placed among the landscaping and headstones at the city’s oldest, largest and most multicultural working cemetery, Rookwood Cemetery in Sydney’s west. The Chippendale Creative Precinct: a creative space with pizzazz and presence Spice Alley is the rear lane of Kensington Street, which was awarded the 2016 Good Design Award for best overall architectural design (urban design and public spaces) for its adaptive reuse of 19th century terraces and buzzy appeal.
