By Lyn Drummond 14 December 2011 – Jack Evans  Boat Harbour, Tweed Heads,  designed by ASPECT Studios in collaboration with Tweed Shire Council won the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects NSW medal as   “an outstanding example of transformation... 
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By Scott Willey 30 November 2011 – Victoria’s Eco-Innovation Laboratory is pushing boundaries and taking a lead from the private sector. Experimentation brings uncertainty, and uncertainty, risk. Read More > >  
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By Lyn Drummond 28 November 2011 – Almost three years since being destroyed in the Victorian bush fires, the new timber Narbethong Community Hall was opened on Saturday, 26 November, by the Governor of Victoria, Alex Chernov. Read More >... 
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By Lynne Blundell 8 December 2011 ­– DeisgnInc has won this year’s National Award for Sustainable Architecture in the Australian Institute of Architects’ National Architecture Awards for its work on The University of Adelaide Innova21. Innova21,... 
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By Lynne Blundell 20 October 2011 – Quiet achiever Adelaide is up to its ears in strategic integrated design that could change the shape of the built environment nationally. Adelaide may seem an unlikely centre for an urban planning revolution. It... 
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By Ivan Rijavec 2 November 2011 – Melbourne architect and writer Ivan Rijavec will on Thursday launch a major and startling exhibition* that focuses a searing spotlight on how we view Australian urbanism. Read More > >  
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26 September 2011– How to transform a commercial building into a medium density residential development is the challenge of the latest Boral Design Awards. With prize money of up to $20,000 for the major winner, the awards are open to architects, building... 
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20 September 2011 – Lend Lease on Monday night showcased its new six star Green Star Commonwealth Bank Place at Darling Quarter in Sydney in its launch event for World Green Building Week Read More > >  
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By Tina Perinotto 15 September 2011 – Anthony Burke and Gerard Reinmuth have been appointed to head the creative team for the Australian Institute of Architects’ Australian Pavilion at the 13th Venice International Architecture Biennale Read... 
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By Tina Perinotto 2 September 2011 – Between the Bellinis, speeches from the dignitaries and the best sushi ever likely to be served outside of Toyko at the opening of 1 Bligh Street in Sydney this week, came the suggestion from a guest that the building’s... 
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By David Parken, chief executive officer, Australian Institute of Architects 31 August 2011 – There has been some recent speculation in industry circles about the future of the Australian Institute of Architects’ National Architecture Award for... 
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By Tina Perinotto 24 August 2011 – [Updated] The Australian Institute of Architects has taken the controversial decision to drop its sustainability awards as a separate category, in a move designed to rid the awards of “green bling” and... 
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12 August 2011 – GPT officially launched its new offices on three high rise floors at Sydney’s MLC building on Wednesday with a panel discussion that delved into some of the complex thinking that has delivered a virtually paperless office and... 
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16 August 2011 – The National Heart Foundation has compiled guidelines about food sensitive planning and urban design. Food Sensitive Planning and Urban Design: A conceptual framework for achieving a sustainable and just food system is a framework... 
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By Tina Perinotto 3 August 2011 – Following hot on the heels of our story last issue on the mass retrenchment of four staff at the NSW chapter office has come some of the reasoning behind the move and an indication of the pressure architects are... 
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It’s a story of deep resistance to sustainable change, embarrassing mistakes and scientists at 20 paces. Now the clever people have turned the spotlight to the humble real estate agent. Welcome to the wild world of the residential market. By Lynne... 
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By Tina Perinotto 19 July 2011 – NSW Australian Institute of Architects members have been shocked by the sudden retrenchment of four key long serving staff members of the Sydney office. Institute insiders told The Fifth Estate that members... 
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6 July 2011 – The new national president of the Australian Institute of Architects, Brian Zulaikha  has called for a government architect position to be established in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet.The Sydney-based architect, who is... 
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5 July 2011 – BVN Architecture has won this year’s top award, the Sulman Award, at the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2011 NSW Architecture Awards for its Brain and Mind Research Institute  – Youth Mental Health Building. Read More >... 
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28 June 2011 – Melbourne’s AAMI Park by Cox Architecture has won three of the top Victorian Architecture Awards. AAMI Park won the Victorian Architecture Medal, The Melbourne Prize and the William Wardell Award for Public Architecture. The structure... 
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By Lyn Drummond 22 June 2011 – Relaxing in a sky park 33 storeys above Melbourne’s CBD could start a trend if award winning architect Billy Kavellaris’ urban park is built next year. The Sky Park Tower at 17-23 Wills Street will include... 
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21 June 2011 – A Hobart high school has won top honours at the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2011 Tasmanian Architecture Awards for what the jury described as a “sensitive and bold” work. Ogilvie High School’s Student Learning Centre... 
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21 June 2011 –Debate is heightening on the Treehugger website about whether the 2012 London Olympic basketball venue is the ugliest building yet. One subscriber, Lloyd Alter of the company, Design and Architecture, describes the venue as, “looking... 
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16 June 2011 – A Darwin school’s new outdoor and indoor play and learning spaces have won four of seven awards at the Australian Institute of Architects’ Northern Territory architecture awards. St Mary’s Catholic Primary School new hall and... 
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Philip Pollard’s Phd thesis, Campus as Place, details the the transformation of Newcastle University into one of the world’s leading sustainability exemplars. See Chapter One here. Chapter 2: A collaborative approach to delivering the... 
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16 June 2011 – A blend of the pragmatic and the poetic won a South Australian regional school the top award at the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2011 SA Architecture Awards. The Caritas College Junior School’s external covered area in Port... 
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16 June 2011 –The Australian War Memorial took most of the honours at the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2011 ACT Architecture Awards. ACT jury chair Shelley Penn said the recent work Read More > >  
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8 June 2011 – Sustainable villages, high density housing projects, urban squares and foreshore parks are vying for honours at this year’s national awards for urban design. The awards will be presented as part of the Built Environment Meets Parliament,... 
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6 May 2011 – Bluescope Steel last night won the Insurance Council of Australia Resilience Award Competition with an innovative home design, by Caroline Pidcock of Pidcock Architects, aimed at preparing Australian communities for extreme weather conditions... 
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By Amy Kelly Michael Rayner is one of Brisbane’s most high profile architects and contributor to the city fabric. After the recent floods he has also come up with strong ideas about how to interact with the city’s “snaking river.” 6... 
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