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More than 85 percent of Australia’s population lives within 50 kilometres of a coastline, according to the Bureau of Statistics. With such a high volume of the population living near the ocean, Australian architecture firms have become well-versed in creating luxury beach house designs.

As part of our feature’s cycle on façade design, we caught up with Alistair Grice to discuss innovations in façade technology like CCFs, solar modelling and Blind Control Systems (BCS) and the future of glazing in façade design in general.

For the second year running, Blum Australia has been voted the Top Trusted Brand in our industry survey.

Voting has opened in Architecture & Design’s Trusted Brands Survey for 2015, with voters in the draw to win an Apple iPad Air 2.

Benoy have announced details of their first live projects in Australia, the UK-based global architecture practice appointed to help redesign two major regional retail centres in Western Australia.