#97 May-Jun 2024

Green Magazine

Design . Architecture . Landscape . Travel

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Ensconced
Oliver MacLatchy of Wood Melbourne has expanded his Chromablock range to include a wall sconce in 12 different colours. Made in Australia from bio-resin, a natural and renewable material. The limited edition Anew range takes things a step further, us
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Editorial
There is a long history of prefabricated housing in Australia. Mostly it offered an affordable and quick solution during times of population growth but we are now seeing increasingly sophisticated systems that provide solutions that are both environm
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Publisher Tom Bodycomb Editor Tamsin O'Neill Art Director Jenni Draper Assistant Editor Ellie Keft Sub Editor Tim Sheedy Proofreader Penny Craswell Contributors Houses/Gardens • Tim Baker, Penny Craswell, Kath Dolan, Rebecca Gross, Jenny Lyon, Jake T
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Floating
Emma Davies’ stingray pelts are well travelled, swimming in Victoria's Western Port and Port Phillip bays, before taking on another terrestrial form hanging in kellilundberg.art‘s inaugural exhibition Maiden Voyage. Intensive and meticulous work, the
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Place
Elisa Jane Carmichael is a Ngugi woman belonging to the Quandamooka people of Moreton Island/Mulgumpin and North Stradbroke Island/Minjerribah. Water Pools and Warambul use ‘ungaire’ as their foundation, a freshwater swamp reed that's plentiful in Ca
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Entangled
A collaboration between Sonian and designers Corentin Mahieu and Bento Architecture, the ACCALMIE tabletop was created by combining hardwood with mycelium (a network of fungal ‘threads’). Sourced locally from the sustainably managed and certified Son
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Shade
The sinuous folds of Ignem Terrae Ceramics’ “Belliatus Vessel” cast alluring shadows, throwing shade in playful ways. Ignem Terrae is created by Emily Hamann, a Sydney-based artist and designer with a background in fashion. Her work is often informed
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Glow
PLUME is a collaboration between Australian heritage luxury lighting brand Rakumba and industrial designer Tom Skeehan of Skeehan Studio. PLUME is created by gently distorting sheet aluminum into two pressed leaves, allowing the light source conceale
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Fallen
Commissioned by NGV Melbourne for its Triennial and permanent collection (curated by Simone LeAmon), Ashley Jameson Eriksmoen's piece Fell transforms waste timber back to its original form: a tree stump. Constructed entirely from broken or discarded
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Wine & Pizza
In Perth's riverside suburb of Applecross, Studio Gram has recreated the nostalgia of simple Mediterranean mid-century design in a suburban pizzeria. Canteen Pizza is a pared-back wine bar and pizzeria with just a pinch of swank – it's as appealing t
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Majik
Real Majik by Tappeti and YSG (led by Yasmine Ghoniem) is a 12-piece range of handmade rugs that reference ancient Egyptian deities. Part of the collection, this ruby red rug channels Seth, the Egyptian god of the desert, foreign realms, thunderstorm
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Bricks & Blocks
Tom Fereday and Eco Outdoor's “Mano” glass bricks and blocks are redefining brick wall design and construction. Their raw, textured surfaces, soft edges and inherent transparency offer unparalleled design versatility – beyond feature walls, they can
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Resurrection
“Something Special” is a jewellery box made from celery top pine resurrected from the watery depths of Lake Pieman in Tasmania's wilderness, and then carefully dried to take on a second life. The most stable and straight-grained lengths of timber wer
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Marine Greens
Southern Sea Greens has evolved with the coming together of three entrepreneurial characters, all highly skilled in their respective fields. This new business venture, started by Cam Hines, Brent ‘Bert’ Cross and Rob Brimblecombe, aims to propagate g
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Prefabrication Evolves
This health-focused prefab pod designed by Steele Olney of Studio Dot is high-performing and fully self-contained. Inspired by the typical Australian miner's cottage, the pod works equally well in rural environments or suburban backyards. Using passi
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Making Sense
It's delicious to hear that stories from green magazine directly inspired Habitat House in Northcote. Clients Gary and Melanie have been avid readers for years, and as their toddlers morphed into teens their dreams of a transformative rear addition f
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Ben Callery Architects bencallery.com.au Truewood Constructions Cantilever Interiors Sam Cox Landscapes Wurundjeri-Woiwurrung Country. Melbourne, Vic. Wayne Zwar from Natural Pools Australia The existing front half of the house was retrofitted with d
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Unshackled
If you are looking for Grand Designs-style schadenfreude where a beleaguered couple face financial ruin, marital strife, and a long miserable winter living in a caravan to achieve their architectural dreams, then you should probably keep flicking pag
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Symbiosphere symbiosphere.com.au Eco Interiors ecointeriors.com.au Green Coast Constructions Wernicks Landscape Bundjalung Country. Fingal Head, NSW. Design for climate was a critical intent from the outset and formed one of the many layers of decisi
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Ciao Bella
The Bellarine Peninsula is renowned for its picturesque beachside settings and relaxing summer lifestyle that has attracted people for generations. Upcycled House by Freehand Projects, located in Ocean Grove on an increasingly rare gravel streetscape
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Freehand Projects freehandprojects.com.au Chris Cowley Builders Wadawurrung Country. Ocean Grove, Vic. The house has great solar orientation with its long façade facing north. The concrete slab construction and full-height glazing means that it takes
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Back to Basics
Drip-Dry House in Hawks Nest, on the New South Wales coast, is a multi-generational holiday house where the pared-back architecture supports a pared-back lifestyle. There's no gadgetry, mod-cons or high-tech systems, and no materials or detailing tha
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Marker Architecture markerarchitecture.com.au TMG Building & Construction Worimi Country. Hawks Nest, NSW. The house is oriented north-south and has decks off both sides. These allow outdoor socialising on the north side in winter to take advantage o
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Permaculture Tips
Cinnamon myrtle is an easily grown native food plant that really should be seen more as she copes with a wide range of conditions. Unlike her sisters lemon and aniseed, cinnamon is more tolerant of cold and of sun exposure. Although cinnamon myrtle p
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Sidewalk Terrazzo
Designed and made for the City of Brisbane by the masters of waste, Five Mile Radius, these sturdy street-side stools are formed using surplus concrete and brass waste. fivemileradius.org
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Worm Castle
The Worm Castle by Banish is a small, easy-tomaintain worm farm that's ideal for small spaces such as apartment balconies, courtyards and pocket-sized backyards. Designed and made in Australia from recycled plastics, the Worm Castle is your key to tu
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Porta-Luxe
Johnny Loo is the reimagined portable restroom that's less site visit, more soiree. Architecturally designed, this sensory space complements the curated efforts of a well-groomed event. Often, the inherent portability of typical portable restrooms ca
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Friends with Benefits
When COVID struck in 2020 and rewrote all our well-laid plans, permaculture gardening consultant Ben Shaw and his family were on a round-Australia driving holiday and renting out their Geelong home. Lockdowns inspired a stint in beachside Barwon Head
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Waterslide
After living and working in America for years, architect, Andrew Boyne and his partner Erica were trying to work out whether they wanted to come back to Perth to live for good. “We were very happy renting our place as we were making up our mind,” rem
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Clear and Present
The driving directions from Wellington to Kokomea PurePod on the Kāpiti Coast of Aotearoa/New Zealand were detailed. But with no road names given, we were on our way to an indeterminate location. We parked the car and hiked along a short trail windin
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Designbook
The following pages contain a selection of products and services from designbook, green magazine's online, interactive directory. Zaha a visionary architect. Now streaming on Shelter. shelter.stream Electrify Your Home. Easy. goodbyegas.com.au Modern
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House to Watch the Sunset • 2005
Artist: Not Vital At the risk of being labelled a jack-of-all-trades, I like to think of myself as multidisciplinary. My tertiary education was as an industrial designer, and my career journey has been a diverse mix of experiences. I now eagerly embr
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What A Waste
Sika, a series of baskets made by furniture maker Paola Lenti, are made by sewing dead stock rope yarn in intricate spiral-like patterns. Sika forms part of Lenti's Mottainai collection (Mottainai means ‘What a waste!’ in Japanese), in which fabric o

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