#90 Mar-Apr 2023

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Design . Architecture . Landscape . Travel

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Editorial
It feels to me that multi-residential housing is evolving at a rapid pace, with entirely new ways of doing it that we have not seen before. In this issue our feature article looks at five examples, from a co-housing model created by a group of friend
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Group Work
From discontinued carpet underlay applied to walls and fixtures in retail fit-outs to builders scaffolding creating adaptable installations, Ben Edwards is one of a new breed of designers that make a mark with a fresh, inclusive approach to design. U
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High Density Digs
With zero gas, a 27.65kW photovoltaic array, low embodied energy materials, a 16 000 litre rainwater tank and heat pump hydronic heating, Nightingale has gone all out with its fifirst regional building in Ballarat. Designed by Breathe, the building h
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With the Flow
The longer you spend at this deceptively simple home, which seems to float effortlessly above its floodplain site, the more alluring it becomes. Like the great escape feel of bush and Birrarung (Yarra river) that drew the young family here six years
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Oscar Sainsbury, OSA oscarsainsbury.com Owner-builder Amanda Oliver Wurundjeri Country. Fairfield, Vic. The new addition is sited out into the garden creating a central deck between the existing building and new addition, two different outdoor spaces
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Disconnected
With its clay and limestone soils, and a microclimate protected from the worst bite of the weather, the Waipara Valley in New Zealand's North Canterbury is wine country with an edge. Savvy boutique producers have known this for around two decades, bu
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Johnstone Callaghan Architects jc-a.co.nz Clive Barrington Construction clivebarrington.com Waipara, Aotearoa/New Zealand. The heavily insulated 10m2 cabins are off-grid and positioned to maximise solar gain through north-facing picture windows and n
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Little Darling
Darlinghurst, in Sydney, is a suburb rich with history. Originally called Woolloomooloo Hill or Eastern Hill, the area underwent a huge expansion in the mid-1800s when rows of new houses were built for the wharf workers of Woolloomooloo Bay. After a
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Tom Mark Henry tommarkhenry.studio Rosato Projects Gadigal Country. Darlinghurst, NSW. The house is mostly oriented to the north and west with new steel-framed doors with low-E glazing installed to the north-facing kitchen and west-facing bathroom on
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Time and Tide
Tucked behind the riparian foreshore of Currimundi Lake in Queensland, Paperbark Pod sensitively nestles into the landscape for the established Paperbark trees to take centre stage. Designed by Bark Architects, this home was developed alongside a mas
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Bark Architects barkdesign.com.au John Harrison Longview Consulting Engineers Accord Homes SJ Landscapes Kabi Kabi Country. Currimundi Lake, QLD. The tilted skillion roof canopy rises to the north and east and down to the south and west. The large no
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Permaculture Tips
Getting to the end of a jar of honey is always sad, partly as it's so hard to get those last bits out! Instead of scraping madly, fill the jar with water and give the honey a few minutes or so to dissolve, shaking the jar with the lid on to help. Now
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Idyll Masquerade
Standing in this courtyard, you could easily believe you were in a village in Italy, not Newtown, Sydney with its buzzing streets just the other side of the towering brick walls. “It feels like a well-established garden that always existed. It's like
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Food for Thought
The best ideas often feel inevitable, don't they? Concepts so smart, so simple and so clearly needed, it's bizarre to discover they don't already exist. So it is with Farm My School, on Victoria's Bellarine Peninsula, that's turning underutilised lan
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Big Sky Cabin
Following the shimmering Thredbo river upstream from Jindabyne, our arrival reveals expansive views across the valley to the peaks of the Snowy Mountains. Set in a clearing on the site of a former timber mill, Mill Cabin's location is ideal to immers
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Lunuganga • 1949-2003
Architect: Geoffrey Bawa In the late 1990s I visited Sri Lanka a number of times and, though he was in very poor health, briefly met that island's most famous architectural son, Geoffrey Bawa. It was during one of these visits that I spent a day at L

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