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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by Michael Shaw 19 Jan 2011  – FAVOURITES – The energy efficiency requirements in the Building Code of Australia became more stringent for commercial buildings on 1 May 2010.  With the exception of Tasmania and the Northern Territory, the revised... 
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31 March 2011 – Award winning architect Michael Heenan will be a judge for the 2011 world architecture festival awards in Barcelona in November – the second year running he has been selected. Mr Heenan was the winning architect for the best sports... 
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By Amy Kelly 31 March 2011 – Brisbane City Council on Tuesday night passed a motion allowing residents affected by the January 2011 floods to rebuild their homes beyond the height restrictions of current planning controls. The proposed temporary local... 
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By Tina Perinotto 31 March  2011 – GPT boss Michael Cameron himself dipped out of his job “making money”, as he put it, to host a sneak preview of the new, six star Green Star-targeted head office of the giant property trust this week. Also... 
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29 March 2011 – Tasmanian architect Karen Davis has become the first woman to head Tasmania’s peak architecture body in its 108 year history. Ms Davis takes over from Richard Crawford as Tasmanian president of the Australian Institute of Architects. She... 
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30 March 2011 – One of Australia’s most thought provoking projects designed to stimulate ideas on this country’s urban futures is now on show at the Gold Coast City Gallery in Queensland. NOW and WHEN: Australian Urbanism exhibition was... 
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23 March – From The New York Times: When Macarena Chiriboga came to Bali in 2009, she had just finished a master’s degree in architecture in the US doing her thesis on the use of bamboo as a building material. The trip was meant to be a vacation.... 
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24 March 2011 – Case Study: According to mySmart CTI, a Sydney-based company that provides energy efficiency solutions, refurbishment of an art deco heritage building at 99 Macquarie Street in Sydney showed that it was possible to provide the building... 
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24 March 2011 – Melbourne based architect Graeme Gunn who has been credited with changing the landscape of suburban housing in Australia, reinvigorating architectural university studies in Victoria, and mentoring decades of leading architects, has... 
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By Caroline Noller Caroline Noller has delved into the secrets of six of our world’s most important materials  and found elements of genius, commercial know-how, colourful characters and the nasty truth about their embodied carbon. This... 
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By Lynne Blundell 8 March 2011 – This was the year of the revamp for Green Cities. And the annual conference, jointly organised by the Green Building Council of Australia and the Property Council of Australia, was much better for the makeover. With... 
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By Ronald Wood 10 March 2011 – The claims for green plants in buildings are that they help to improve indoor life. From a single plant on a desk, container plants throughout the space, planted foyers, to landscaped atriums and bioclimatic skyscraper... 
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19 March 2011 – Award winning architect Nick Murcutt  passed away at his home in Bondi on Thursday night. National president elect Brian Zulaikha sent the following news alert to  Australian Institute of Architects members late Friday: It is with... 
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Michael Green, a speaker at the Green Cities 2011 in Melbourne next week –  dreams of building a skyscraper with wood. Here’s why. 24 February 2011 – From Architecture News – As designers we are all fascinated by architectural precedents,... 
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By Andrew Aitken,  Green Building Council of Australia 9 February 2011 – The Green Building Council of Australia is inviting industry to have its say on the development of a new Green Star assessment methodology to rate the operational performance... 
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From Michael Green, The Sydney Morning Herald, Domain: 16 February 2011 – Hundreds of thousands of new homes across the country are not performing at their promised energy efficiency rating. The result is residents are using up to double the predicted... 
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From CNN: 3 February 2011 – Could a floating dome that can house up to 10,000 people be a model for future living? Russian architect Alexander Remizov thinks so — and his prototype design, called “The Ark,” bears more than a passing... 
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28 January 2011 – Green Building Council of Australia and World Green Building Council chair Tony Arnel this week told the G’Day USA conference in Boston that the business case for green buildings was increasingly compelling but that several... 
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By Tina Perinotto 21 January 2011 –21 January 2011 –As the damage from the Queensland floods becomes clearer calls are emerging for rebuilding and repairs to be more sustainable and resilient and at least one sustainability consultancy is offering... 
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By Leon Gettler Special report:  21 January 2011 – With more extreme weather events expected, the Queensland flood crisis could represent the “new normal” that will challenge the property market. Experts have told The Fifth Estate that planning... 
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By Lyn Drummond 19 January 2011 – Architects will propose to the Queensland government that building design be considered in its terms of reference for its Commission of Inquiry into the Queensland floods, as industry bodies respond to the crisis. According... 
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13 January 2011- Jerry Yudelson, leading US green building and sustainability consultant and a speaker at last year’s Green Cities 2010 conference in Melbourne has released a list of top worldwide green building trends for 2011. “What we’re... 
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By Lynne Blundell FAVOURITES – 15 April 2010 -Susan Roaf doesn’t have much time for architects. She thinks that most are little more than “building hairdressers” and she accuses the profession of undermining the fight against climate change. Roaf,... 
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By Lynne Blundell 25 November 2010 – Better air quality, views, large windows, patient and staff focus – not doctors – and cities within cities…it’s all part of an evolving greener profile for hospitals. Hospitals... 
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By Tina Perinotto 18 December 2010 – Pritzker Prize winning architect Frank Gehry was in Sydney this week to officially introduce his contribution to Sydney’s skyline with a new business school at the University of Technology Sydney. Sustainable... 
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22 December 2010 – A number of companies with Australian connections have won awards in the UK’s prestigious Building Magazine Sustainability awards held in conjunction with the UK Green Building Council. Winners include Cundall which was... 
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Brief: 14 December 2010 – Climate Change Minister Greg Combet will be in Newcastle, NSW,  tomorrow to  launch a series of maps to help local governments in coastal communities to prepare for the future impacts of sea level rise due to climate... 
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By Tina Perinotto 25 November 2010 – Ken Maher, chairman of architects Hassell, must be feeling fairly good these days. Here he sits at the top of Australia’s biggest architectural practice by far, with more than 900 employees, which has... 
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9 December 2010 – An interim rating tool for green infrastructure has been launched by AECOM and the Australian Green Infrastructure Council have unveiled at the recent AGIC National Conference in Brisbane to allow project to be aligned for a good... 
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