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The time is now for CLT in Australia: developments, barriers and our first CLT house explored
We have it on good authority that CLT will be a major player in sustainable mid-rise building construction in the future. However, how far into the future that is, and how widespread its effect on Australia’s built environment will be is still a little up in the air.
Hassell gives classic UNSW building a contemporary facelift
Hassell architects have revealed plans to give UNSW’s classic modernist Electrical Engineering Building (EEB) and adjacent Rex Vowels Theatre (RVT) a contemporary facelift.
AILA concerned Government has missed green opportunity in new Infrastructure Plan
It seems that industry support for the new Australian Infrastructure Plan is not as unanimous as first thought, the late mail from the Australian Institute for Landscape Architects (AILA) yesterday showed they weren’t happy with the entire document.
The great apartment standards debate continues: is smaller necessarily worse? Are Victorian standards going to cripple housing affordability?
Planning Ministers are writing essays about them, developers are battling councils in the courts over them and building designers want the right to design them. The great debate about mandatory apartment design standards is alive and well and is becoming ever more prevalent in the state of Victoria.
Archiblox makes Fast Company’s list of World’s Most Innovative Companies of 2016
Victorian modular housing design and construction outfit Archiblox has been named on Fast Company’s list of Most Innovative Companies of 2016.
Nightingale needs your help: architects call on public to pack out council hearing
The team behind Melbourne’s Nightingale 1.0 apartment development are requesting the public join them at Moreland City Council on 24 February as they try once again to have the triple bottom-line project approved.