Sarah Buckley . Articles Overcoming verbal barriers with smart homes Voiceitt, the Israeli start-up company that has integrated nonstandard speech recognition technology into voice-activated devices, is integrating its app for smart home systems. C. Kairouz Architects’ designs Australia’s first photovoltaic glass building The General, a family-butcher-turned-photovoltaic-glazed-award-winner, is a pioneer of residential-building design by emerging Melbourne practice, C. Kairouz Architects. Yhonnie Scarce and Edition Office complete NGV’s commission ‘In Absence’, the fifth National Gallery of Victoria’s (NGV) Architecture Commission proposal by contemporary indigenous artist Yhonnie Scarce and Edition Office, has been completed. Hassell and NH Architecture design new Southbank arts precinct and theatres Hassell and US architects SO-IL are designing the public realm that will make up the precinct’s public meeting spaces, whereas NH Architecture and Norway’s Snøhetta will revitalise the arts precinct’s theatres. Edition Office moves walls in Point Lonsdale holiday home Edition Office has designed moving walls and decked terraces interconnecting four pavilions of a holiday home in Point Lonsdale, Victoria’s Bellarine Peninsula. Henning Larsen designs an all-timber community in Copenhagen The new sustainable ‘masterplan’ by Henning Larsen and MOE, Fælledby, is the first all-timber community designed in Copenhagen.
