#76 November-December 2020

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Design . Architecture . Landscape . Travel

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Editorial
For many of us in 2020, our homes have also became our workplaces – and for some of us, this has led to a rethink. What is the future of office design and will houses increasingly incorporate workspaces? We look at a variety of offices in this issue,
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Tom Bodycomb Tamsin O’Neill Jenni Draper Georgia Thomas Georgia Thomas Kath Dolan • Houses/GardensMichelle Bailey • Houses/GardensRebecca Gross • Houses/GardensGeorgia Thomas • UpfrontKaren Sutherland • Permaculture Tips Fleur Michael accounts@greenp
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Upfront
Loose Lips don’t just sink ships anymore, they also make a mighty fine coffee. Mount Beauty, Victoria’s Loose Lips Caffeine Dealer (LLCD) was designed by Albury-based SM.A to give back to a community that has endured the dual catastrophes of bushfire
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Great Minds
This might sound controversial, but not all great minds think alike. In the case of Makiko Ryujin and Michael Gittings, their differences are what makes theirs such a prosperous partnership. Makiko saw much of the world before coming to Melbourne. Bo
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Life’s Work
Foolscap Studio’s digs may be dubbed ‘The Cloud’, but its dynamism ensures that this project's feet are firmly planted on the ground. After much searching, Foolscap Studio found the perfect site in a former factory in Melbourne’s artsy Collingwood; t
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Introspective
When Mat Hinds of Taylor and Hinds Architects describes this project, he does so with joy. He expresses the pleasure of working with a client who was ready to be challenged architecturally, and who pushed back, with outstanding results; the joy of re
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Specs
Taylor and Hinds Architects taylorandhinds.com.au DS Building Dickens Constructions Trimview The aspect of the site mitigates the low winter sun, and pressure from the upslope ground encroaches upon the garden and natural light. This presented as a p
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Easy Breezy
Size is a relative concept. While 80-square-metres sounds small for a family of four, to Maz and Suni Hermon it is positively palatial. The couple and their two young boys lived in less than half that footprint for nearly five years. And survived. Th
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Spacecraft Architects spacecraftarchitects.co.nz South Coast Construction southcoast.co.nz The courtyard form of the house is driven by the constant wind in Wellington and the desire to shelter an area of outdoor space to open into. The house is tota
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Fast Forward
Art Deco as a visual arts movement first appeared in France at the eve of the Great War and continued to find favour some time into the 1930s, reaching its zenith and achieving Hollywood clout in Fritz Lang’s seminal film, Metropolis. Fast forward al
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Mihaly Slocombe mihalyslocombe.com.au Basis Builders Deco House achieves a high level of environmental sustainability via the use of low embodied energy materials, adoption of passive solar design principles and careful selection of active energy and
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Redux
In retrospect it should probably have set alarm bells ringing when clients Tim and Deidre found their Malvern home on the market back in 2009 during a chilly Melbourne winter. In August, sun pouring in from poolside through masses of north-facing gla
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PHOOEY Architects phooey.com.au Ben Robson Master Builder Pariden Consulting pariden.com.au RED Sustainability Consultants red-sustainability.com.au Rohan Barnes waveformacoustics.com.au The bones of the existing design were sensitively retained and
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Permaculture Tips
By now, your vegetable garden should be in full swing, growing the ultimate summer harvests: luscious sun-ripened tomatoes, crisp cucumbers, flavoursome beans and endless zucchinis. Fill any gaps in your garden now, to avoid later disappointment, but
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Upfront Garden
It’s not hard to see why “The Farm” scored a Good Design Award Gold Accolade: it’s designed and made in Australia from 100 per cent locally-sourced recycled plastic destined for landfill and would make a stylish addition to the courtyard or balcony o
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Lights, Camera, Construction
And now, from the director who brought you Coneheads, Electric Dreams and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, a blockbuster of epic environmental proportions: The House Made of Hemp! OK, so we're gonna have to work on the title, but a film, or documentary,
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Sweet As
Beekeeping and collecting honey has always fascinated us; the more you explore it, the more you don’t know and the more enchanting it becomes. Ask Melbourne apiarist (and architect), Nic Dowse, founder of Honey Fingers. Nic and his friends make up a
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The Water-loving City
We’re so spoiled for choice in Sydney. Choosing your favourites feels like an impossible task when every single entry in our latest book, Places We Swim Sydney, is well worth your time. But, if you really want to twist our arm, these six go a long wa
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Designbook
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What I Like About You
This was the project that broke architecture. To this day, it remains refreshing and even more relevant. The project established a new value, a new frontier, a future where architecture and its relationship with the built and natural environments exi

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