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St Gregory's Hall by Collins Caddaye Architects was awarded the prestigious Canberra Medallion at the Australian Institute of Architects' 2012 ACT Awards on Saturday 2 June 2012.
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The headline rise in construction work done understates the increasingly dire condition of the commercial building sector, Master Builders Australia.
2012 marked the seventh presentation of the biennial ECOLA Award, which pays tribute to the use of plaster as a distinguishing architectural element in both new and old buildings.
CSR Cemintel's BareStone pre-finished facade panel and fixing system was selected for use on Bernard Hockings' latest project - a 100 per cent self-sufficient eco house in Newcastle.
Most of the talk (and action) of green design and eco architecture is premised on having a clean slate, a blank canvas, on which to conjure up more award winning, high star rating, icons of sustainable creativity. Yet the vast bulk of our buildings are already with us. Seven out of eight million Australian households live in existing separate houses and/or terrace/town houses. This is where the biggest bang for buck resides, if we really want to affect environmentally positive change. We need to swivel our focus onto our rather copious stock of energy inefficient brick veneer (and similar) homes. And eco retrofit them. Warren McLaren lists some "bolt-on" that require little or no renovation to an established dwelling, but will appreciably reduce the building's environmental impact and save on running costs.
They are synonymous with China, but courtyard houses - which, as the name suggests, are dwellings built around a central courtyard - are a much better fit for our harsh Australian environment according to architectural firm, Fratelle Group.
Schiavello has been acknowledged at the Master Builders 2012 Apprentice awards, winning two awards at the ceremony.
International ceramic tile and bathroom furnishings exhibition Cersaie, in Italy this September, will host a keynote lecture by Eduardo Souto De Moura, the Portuguese architect who won the Pritzker prize 2011.
Lend Lease has unveiled plans to build the first high rise apartment building in Australia and the tallest in the world using Cross Laminated Timber (CLT), which it says heralds a new era for the construction industry.
Warren McLaren reports on the new wave of housing in Australia which aims to not contribute to climate change.
Fulton Trotter Architects apply concrete, timber and steel to the meet principles of passive design, simplicity and self-sustainability in this southwest Queensland riverside home. David Wheeldon reports.
The details of a new house near Adelaide have been published in order to share information about designing with precast concrete for energy and water efficiency as well as bushfire resistance.
