Architecture Radio

Below are two awesome Australian radio programs based on architecture. It’s a very informative way of staying up to date with design in our country. Enjoy! RRR The Architects The Plan – Adelaide Radio  

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Shearers’ Quarters in Bruny Island, Australia by John Wardle Architects

AR HOUSE – Runner Up: Set on a working sheep farm, Shearers’ Quarters draws on rural and industrial archetypes.                 Among the many submissions for rural or vacation houses, Shearers’ Quarters, on the southernmost tip of Tasmania, clearly caught the jury’s eye. Set on a working sheep farm, however, this is […]

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Veranda Urbanism Design Research

The Queensland House is barely a house, its actually just clad structure and micro-climate. With simply structural bracing on the outside to which is nailed tongue and grove boards and then with veranda’s all the way around, it can seem barely a house simply an expression of the weather, maybe a dialectic with it. And […]

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The advantage of size

A downturn in economic activity offers a moment to take stock of one’s values and reassess the future in the face of changing expectations. The office of AECOM Brisbane is an amalgam of several existing companies, including EDAW, Maunsell and Davis Langdon. Image: Shane Hasting A reassesment of value in architecture may not seem like […]

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Bleuscape’s Top 10 Australian Architectural Firms for 2012

10. Bark Architecture Bark is run by husband and wife team, Lindy Atkin and Stephen Guthrie. Their aim is to create buildings that are designed from the inside out. Responding directly to the needs of the people who use them, buildings integrate delicately with the natural landscape, ensuring minimal environmental impact and maximum sustainability. Visually, […]

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Dandenong Mountains House

In 2011, we completed this little three-bedroom house for some friends of the family. It is our first Victorian commission. The house has a history of being tinkered with by previous owners, some parts successful and others not so much. Our idea was to really clean it up, take advantage of the spectacular views and […]

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Studio Dror

Dror Benshetrit is one of my favorite US designers. He seems to moves through the different creative disciplines with grace and ease. I spoke with Dror from his studio in New York last year regarding his innovative QuaDror system and how it might be used in Australian architecture. I found him to be an incredibly creative […]

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The Winged House

Richard Goodwin is an architect and artist. I have long admired this little house he designed in Tasmainia completed in 2007.           The  site is very steep, with panoramic views across Bass Strait, the expanse of ocean  separating the island from mainland Australia. It is the southernmost  part of Australia and isubject to […]

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