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Pillars of workplace design and campus master-planning in India

Pillars of workplace design and campus master-planning in India

Focusing on facade and green design, this pair of office blocks is designed to meet the most contemporary demands of workplace design.

Facade operability shapes the corner gateway to Cremorne precinct

Facade operability shapes the corner gateway to Cremorne precinct

In what is a growing workplace precinct, Fieldwork has wrapped a distinctive skin of operable screens around this office block.

Held together by function and aesthetics: tensile mesh barriers and facades

Held together by function and aesthetics: tensile mesh barriers and facades

These high performance structural materials focus on function but their sailing heritage hints at more than a passing care for design aesthetics. Our CPD Live session takes a closer look.

“A multitude of uses contained within one skin”: Elenberg Fraser’s Melbourne Towers

“A multitude of uses contained within one skin”: Elenberg Fraser’s Melbourne Towers

At 380 Lonsdale Street in the Melbourne CBD, two towers are wrapped under one elegant architectural exterior. Meanwhile, a new laneway brings a rich mixture of public and private space to street level.

Dramatic Statement: John Wardle Architects’ Caulfield Library, Monash university

Dramatic Statement: John Wardle Architects’ Caulfield Library, Monash university

A Brutalist 1970s library building provides the bones for a Renaissance-like redevelopment at Monash University’s Caulfield campus. The outcome is a dynamic hub that serves a complexity of 21st-century needs. “It was about opening the library up to the central village green of the campus and bringing light into the building,” says John Wardle Architects’ Jasmin Williamson.

Using Avante bricks to bring sincerity to your design

Using Avante bricks to bring sincerity to your design

Without compromising on the sophisticated look of real brick, Avante by PGH Bricks & Pavers provides architects and designers a simple, fast and flexible brick façade system to achieve a genuine brick look.

18 Innovation Walk: From modernist to contemporary at Monash University

18 Innovation Walk: From modernist to contemporary at Monash University

A collaboration between Kosloff Architecture, Callum Morton and Monash Art Projects sees a modernist building reskinned with a contemporary façade.

Architecture meets art in Alexander Knox’s façade

Architecture meets art in Alexander Knox’s façade

An organic, three-dimensional façade at 300 George Street, Brisbane, uses its metallic surface to emulate the effect of sunlight rippling on water, which is a larger than life artwork by Alexander Knox.

Architectural Research, Material Applications: Meet AR-MA

Architectural Research, Material Applications: Meet AR-MA

Meet AR-MA, the experimental firm using innovative means and methods of design to make sure first impressions count.