Grimshaw is known for its big global projects. In Australia, its work has included Sydney’s Metro, Light Rail and Martin Place Station and Melbourne’s Southern Cross Station and the Passive House rated Woodside Building at Monash University.
But as Michael Janeke, managing partner of its Sydney studio says, while the big projects are a “privilege” and ...
A few weeks ago, NSW Premier Chris Minns announced plans to redevelop Glebe Island for housing. It’s hard to argue with the premise. Sydney needs more homes, urgently, and land this close to the city, between the CBD and the inner west, cannot remain underused forever.
Spinifex is an opinion column. If you would like to contribute, contact us to ask ...
We have five copies of this book (retailing at $84.99) to give away to the next five new members who sign up as The Fifth Estate member.
Among the gems that Hannah Lewi and Cameron Logan revealed last week at Gleebooks for the launch of their book, Adapt, Designing New Lives for Old Buildings, is a novel concept – that a value capture mechanism could ...
VIDEO: Shaun Carter’s architecture firm, Carter Williamson, is expanding from designing mainly homes to tall apartments. That’s not such a stretch, he says, but what’s more interesting is the work to better understand sustainability from a cost benefit point of view, especially for clients.
Architectural firm Carter Williamson celebrated its 21st ...
The Australian government recently announced that the energy rating scheme for new homes will be extended to existing homes in mid-2026 in a voluntary capacity, suggesting that this will “inform renters and home buyers upfront about the energy efficiency of a home and how much it will cost to run” and drive low carbon home improvements that cut energy ...
At Transform, the big Green Building Council of Australia’s big yearly event in Sydney this week we couldn’t help taking a pulse of what the mood was in relation to the National Construction Code and other green rating tools in the lead up to our Big Debate on the topic on 31 March. In our chats around the industry it’s triggered a lot of shaking heads ...
We asked Davina Rooney how she saw the challenge of the National Construction Code and other green rating tools at this critical point in the evolution of the green building industry. Here’s what she told us.
From our perspective, this is a really important moment. Australia is trying to tackle both a climate challenge and a housing affordability ...
Among our favourite highlights from the Green Building Council of Australia’s TRANSFORM conference this week were some pointed explosions on the issue of return on investment for clean air, for instance. Ridiculous, was the answer. Or that at Davos, people had Thesaurus apps at the ready to make sure they would not offend Donald Trump. Ridiculous ...
Philip Thalis has achieved Australia’s highest architectural honour – the Gold Medal in Architecture in 2024. It keeps him immensely busy and partly that’s because his words have more clout now than ever.
At the briefing on Monday ahead of our newest Big Debate event, Codes Red on 31 March, Thalis showed no signs of pulling his punches.
Sign ...
With a background in small business, Anthony Galimi is used to taking chances, but the biggest risk of his career is when he and his family backers at Novon Lighting took the plunge to invest in new state of the art Swiss robotic equipment and high spec sustainable operations in new premises at Arndell Park in Western Sydney.
The business had already ...
Developers and their contributing professionals and consultants are on notice. While the built environment has largely mastered the art of how to get to net zero – at least in theory and at least at the top end – the searchlights are now increasingly trained on how to protect and enhance nature.
Because it’s the built environment that is largely to ...
Climate investment agitators at Market Forces have again taken aim at oil and gas miner Woodside with a missive on Monday that challenges its narrative that gas can help swing to clean energy in Asia.
The organisation said that despite its proclamations in sustainability reports, Woodside had invested $40 billion in oil and gas exploration since 2020 ...
Grimshaw is known for its big global projects. In Australia, its work has included Sydney’s Metro, Light Rail and Martin Place Station and Melbourne’s Southern Cross Station and the Passive House rated Woodside Building at Monash University.
But as Michael Janeke, managing partner of its Sydney studio says, while the big projects are a “privilege” and ...
A few weeks ago, NSW Premier Chris Minns announced plans to redevelop Glebe Island for housing. It’s hard to argue with the premise. Sydney needs more homes, urgently, and land this close to the city, between the CBD and the inner west, cannot remain underused forever.
Spinifex is an opinion column. If you would like to contribute, contact us to ask ...
We have five copies of this book (retailing at $84.99) to give away to the next five new members who sign up as The Fifth Estate member.
Among the gems that Hannah Lewi and Cameron Logan revealed last week at Gleebooks for the launch of their book, Adapt, Designing New Lives for Old Buildings, is a novel concept – that a value capture mechanism could ...
VIDEO: Shaun Carter’s architecture firm, Carter Williamson, is expanding from designing mainly homes to tall apartments. That’s not such a stretch, he says, but what’s more interesting is the work to better understand sustainability from a cost benefit point of view, especially for clients.
Architectural firm Carter Williamson celebrated its 21st ...
The Australian government recently announced that the energy rating scheme for new homes will be extended to existing homes in mid-2026 in a voluntary capacity, suggesting that this will “inform renters and home buyers upfront about the energy efficiency of a home and how much it will cost to run” and drive low carbon home improvements that cut energy ...
At Transform, the big Green Building Council of Australia’s big yearly event in Sydney this week we couldn’t help taking a pulse of what the mood was in relation to the National Construction Code and other green rating tools in the lead up to our Big Debate on the topic on 31 March. In our chats around the industry it’s triggered a lot of shaking heads ...
We asked Davina Rooney how she saw the challenge of the National Construction Code and other green rating tools at this critical point in the evolution of the green building industry. Here’s what she told us.
From our perspective, this is a really important moment. Australia is trying to tackle both a climate challenge and a housing affordability ...
Among our favourite highlights from the Green Building Council of Australia’s TRANSFORM conference this week were some pointed explosions on the issue of return on investment for clean air, for instance. Ridiculous, was the answer. Or that at Davos, people had Thesaurus apps at the ready to make sure they would not offend Donald Trump. Ridiculous ...
Philip Thalis has achieved Australia’s highest architectural honour – the Gold Medal in Architecture in 2024. It keeps him immensely busy and partly that’s because his words have more clout now than ever.
At the briefing on Monday ahead of our newest Big Debate event, Codes Red on 31 March, Thalis showed no signs of pulling his punches.
Sign ...
With a background in small business, Anthony Galimi is used to taking chances, but the biggest risk of his career is when he and his family backers at Novon Lighting took the plunge to invest in new state of the art Swiss robotic equipment and high spec sustainable operations in new premises at Arndell Park in Western Sydney.
The business had already ...
Developers and their contributing professionals and consultants are on notice. While the built environment has largely mastered the art of how to get to net zero – at least in theory and at least at the top end – the searchlights are now increasingly trained on how to protect and enhance nature.
Because it’s the built environment that is largely to ...
Climate investment agitators at Market Forces have again taken aim at oil and gas miner Woodside with a missive on Monday that challenges its narrative that gas can help swing to clean energy in Asia.
The organisation said that despite its proclamations in sustainability reports, Woodside had invested $40 billion in oil and gas exploration since 2020 ...
