#72 March-April 2020

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Design . Architecture . Landscape . Travel

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Editorial
As our cities rapidly densify, opportunities for new forms of multi-residential housing arise. This is the time for innovation in sustainability, both material and social – and also to look to the past for inspiration on successful forms of shared sp
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Upfront
The latest collaborative project from avant-garde object designer, Trent Jansen with designer and Nyikina man, Johnny Nargoodah captures the two’s differing sensibilities and skills in working with animal skins. Shown as part of Melbourne Design Week
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Into the Lake
Pilot and co-director of consultancy firm SFM, Dave Wise regularly flew over the timbered river valleys flooded in the 1980s by Hydro Tasmania and wondered what could be recovered from the drowned forests. Many moons later, after feasibility studies
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Come One, Come All
537 Elizabeth by Woods Bagot is billed as a “prototype” for compact, urban living – but given how dextrously this project accommodates 12 one-bedroom-plus-study apartments onto a Sydney microsite measuring roughly six-by-30 metres, it arguably qualif
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Sustainable Machine
“A house must be a machine for sustaining life if we are to survive the next 100 years,” says Clinton Cole, referencing Le Corbusier’s famous statement: “A house is a machine for living in.” Clinton is director of CplusC Architectural Workshop, and h
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Specs
CplusC Architectural Workshop cplusc.com.au Designed with the building’s lifespan in mind, Welcome to the Jungle House is built to last. The steel structure, although higher in initial embodied energy, requires less maintenance and will long outlive
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Handcrafted
The conduit was the chairs’ furniture maker, Adam Markowitz, of markowitzdesign, whose heritage craftmanship impressed the owners so much they procured his architecture services to renovate their new double-storey penthouse – within the original 1954
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markowitzdesign with Stavrias Architecture markowitzdesign.com stavrias.com.au DGO Developments Evolve Interiors and Evolve Stone evolveinteriors.net.au As an apartment renovation with strict body corporate rules there was little opportunity to alter
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Common Good
The coastal walk from Coogee to Bondi, passing Clovelly, Bronte and Tamarama, is one of the most popular and beautiful walks in Sydney – and the houses facing this walk are some of the most coveted. Architect Luke Moloney’s brother and sister-in-law
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Specs
Luke Moloney Architecture lukemoloney.com.au Casey Bros Building The house is aligned to face north, but this beneficial aspect is compromised by adjacent development. To overcome this, skylights were included to permit northern light without comprom
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Deft Touch
The clients had lived next door for 11 years before buying the “rundown, falling apart, dilapidated property” that’s now their remarkable home-studio designed for flexible future use. Before their elderly neighbour died, he’d been happy enough with t
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Zen Architects zenarchitects.com 2iC Construction COS Interiors Made by Morgen Eckersley Garden Architecture The entire residence was elevated to achieve a 6.2-star NatHERS rating even though the original residence equates to 50 per cent of the foot
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Permaculture Tips
At the end of an incredibly difficult summer, it’s more important than ever to be conscious of how we value, use and manage water, in our homes and in our gardens. For those living in areas where water has become scarce this is especially important.
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Upfront Garden
The Dirt Company is big on highly-functional, sustainable household products. Hence these 316 Marine-grade stainless steel pegs, housed in a bag made from 100 per cent post-consumer recycled plastic that can hang on the line open or closed. Neat, huh
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Conversation Starter
Up above Hobart (mouheneenner Country, lutruwita, under kunyani), in a pink house, we talk over tea with milk from Hannah Moloney’s sweet-natured goat. Our conversation weaves its way from her horticultural upbringing, through to Cuba and Detroit and
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Diurnal Delights
When the Brisbane suburb of Petrie Terrace was subdivided for housing in 1861, the ambition was for density. Lots were as small as seven perches (177-square-metres) and on each, modest timber workers’ cottages accommodated the burgeoning population.
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Pride and Purpose
We’re standing on a street corner in a country town that’s halfway to somewhere and a long way from anywhere. The road to Katanning – 277 kilometres south-east of Perth – used to be a lonely highway. Not anymore. Tourists swarm across inland Western
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What I Like About You
Clontarf, Sydney Architect: Bruce Rickard My first encounter with the work of Bruce Rickard came from what felt to me like a quintessentially Australian experience: fishing on the Hawkesbury. An elevated volume nestled amongst the landscape of Cotta

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