Articles tagged with 'design'

Digital technology - a help or hindrance to design?

12 August 2010 | The contribution of digital technologies to the continuity and innovation of masonry in architecture is up for discussion at the University of Melbourne, August 24.


Architect helps fashion put its best foot forward

9 August 2010 | Architect Chris Bosse from LAVA and Amanda Henderson from Gloss Creative created the set for the Myer Spring Summer 2011 Collections Launch held in Sydney recently.


WA gov. BILDs relationships with students for design

2 August 2010 | The WA State Government has announced a partnership between LandCorp and The University of Western Australia.


Bulky Goods Centres: Design & Construction 2010

27 July 2010 | The rising number of bulky good centres reflects the demands of exploding populations in major cities and regional areas of Australia.


RMIT students design for Salvos

23 July 2010 | RMIT Associate Degree of Design (furniture) students, in conjunction with the Salvation Army, recently created a range of economical and ergonomic furniture for some of Melbourne’s most disadvantaged.


Queensland designers quench their thirst

16 July 2010 | Six of Brisbane's best on the international design scene have joined forces to showcase Queensland’s design to a world thirsty for innovation and will be presenting Quench.


How can design help communities deal with crime?

11 June 2010 | The Design Research Institute’s annual Design Challenge focuses on a topical and urgent issue.


Security design cannot be one size-fits-all

2 June 2010 | Security at public buildings can be enhanced when architects are able to provide appropriate design strategies to achieve desired levels of protection, rather than using a one-size-fits-all approach, an architect has testified before the US Congress.


New Perth hospital designs complete

1 June 2010 | The final design of Fiona Stanley Hospital is now on display in Perth.


Whitefield McQueen Irwin Alsop to deliver new courthouse in Vanuatu

21 May 2010 | Whitefield McQueen Irwin Alsop (WMCQIA) has won an international design competition to deliver a courthouse building for the Government of the Republic of Vanuatu.


Designers to recreate the hotel design experience

20 May 2010 | Two Australian design firms will create the interiors of two hotel rooms from idea to fruition while visitors watch at the inaugural Hotel, Hospitality + Design 2010 (HH+D) exhibition.


Fitzroy school project among finalists in Premier's award

12 May 2010 | Finalists in the 2010 Premier's Design Awards have been announced.


Can you design against the elements?

23 April 2010 | Design Against the Elements is a global architectural design competition meant to find a solution to the problems presented by climate change.


Rant on

23 February 2010 | Las Vegas' latest casino resort an "absurd simulacrum of another city", the failure of modern architecture and Lord Norman Foster delivers disappointing design for Yale.


Open tenders

23 February 2010 | The Moe Rail Precinct Revitalisation Project and the Tennant Creek Swimming Pool are among today's tenders.


Architects hardest hit by green project deferrals

19 February 2010 | Green projects were most likely to be deferred or abandoned at the design stage in 2009, new research reveals.


Victoria succeeds in designing safe streets

19 February 2010 | Where the residential sector has done a good job of designing against crime, commercial building has "failed", says an urban planner.


Hames Sharley wins Innovators to Watch award

19 February 2010 | Adelaide-based design firm, Hames Sharley, has beaten stiff competition from seven other finalists to take the prize.


Central park works as "green engine"

19 February 2010 | SOM's new urban model for a Beijing district uses a central park to passively heat and cool the district.


Rant on

19 February 2010 | Millennium arts projects result in "dark, vandalised" buildings, "poor planning" in Ireland and LA Live is "sorely lacking".


Bangkok fire trial finds architect's signature forged

18 February 2010 | Building design faults have been partly blamed for the deaths of 67 people during a fire at a New Year’s Eve party in a Bangkok nightclub.


Global round up

18 February 2010 | New Office for Urban Development and Environment in Germany, British Airways flights go carbon neutral and open-air theatre causes controversy in Malta.


Adelaide's 30-year plan risks populism: architect

18 February 2010 | Released yesterday, the final plan is "deliberately vague" and promotes conflicting principles, a leading Adelaide architect has said.


Rant on

17 February 2010 | World Trade Centre an "old lump of concrete", well-respected architects getting away with designing "abominable" buildings and design competitions "guinea-pig" suffering of Haitians.


Urban Art Projects reveals giant carp for Brisbane

16 February 2010 | Landscape architects and artists have teamed up to create a 6.6 tonne bronze sculpture for Brisbane's Chinatown Mall.


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