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Cladding can broadly be defined as material that is attached to a building’s interior or exterior.
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The term ‘fibro’ is short for ‘fibrous cement sheet’. Around the world during the postwar period, and particularly here in Australia, fibro was an extremely popular building product.
Post the COVID lockdown and arriving just in time for the Christmas season is the blockbuster art show we needed: Henri Matisse at the AGNSW. Exhibition designer, the ever-cool Richard Johnson, has set aside a tall-ceilinged room to display original artworks for a small chapel in Vence, in the south of France, that Matisse regarded as the high point in his artistic career. It is to that building that we turn our attention in this column, linking design to current affairs,
Even if you’re well covered, your neighbourhood may struggle long after the dust has settled, as houses lie derelict, people struggle to bounce back and social cohesion frays.
When it comes to sustainable builds, the Passive House model is a great way to achieve maximum energy efficiency. The concept of a Passive House first emerged 30 years ago in Germany, and the standard means these homes are able to consume up to 90% less energy than the average home.
About 650 metres beneath the Latrobe Valley, the heart of Victoria’s coal country, lies a little-known, naturally hot 65℃ pool of water in an enormous aquifer.
There is scarcely a resource more precious and crucial to life than water. Yet as we all know, water is a non-renewable resource and its conservation is especially important in drought-prone Australia.
The average ‘smart home’ in Australia just isn’t that clever. Despite the promise that the internet of things would seamlessly connect technology throughout our houses, it’s only now that we’re starting to see its potential being realised.
Replacing old wallpaper with something new or even just removing it altogether is a fantastic method of home improvement for those operating on a budget.
This is the first column in a new series that links design to an issue of current affairs. This week it’s the recent floods on the Lachlan River, and we showcase Sculpture Down the Lachlan (SDL), a series of new large sculptures that you can visit along Lachlan Valley Way that closely follows the winding river (and inundated by water in the recent floods).
What are the emerging trends in brick colours? A look at somewhat unexpected popular modern house brick styles.
Thanks to technological advances, citizen science has experienced unprecedented global growth over the past decade. It’s enabled millions of people to get involved in science, whether by gathering data, sharing health information or helping to map galaxies.
