Extension planned for Coorparoo Skate Park
21 Aug 2014For the bounty of local skateboarders wanting a slick concrete slab on which to regularly practise kickflips and airwalk grabs, grand plans are in motion to extend Coorparoo Skate Park. more
Lightspace set to open Prospect Studios co-working space
14 Aug 2014The good folk behind Lightspace have set their sights on a new warehouse in Fortitude Valley to open a second co-working space. more
Houses Awards winners announced for 2014
07 Aug 2014The 2014 Houses Awards were held at Sydney’s Doltone House Hyde Park last week, with nine winners and 21 commendations awarded across the eight categories. The top honour of Australian House of the Year was awarded to the Invisible House by Peter Stutchbury Architecture, which sees a residential dwelling exhibiting beautiful connection to its panoramic landscape in the Central Tablelands of New South Wales. Brisbane-based studio Owen and Vokes and Peters was the sole Queensland firm amongst the winners, receiving two commendations. The Panorama Drive property in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland received a commendation in the House Alteration and Addition under 200 sqm, which saw strategic interventions to an existing timber house. The studio’s West End Tower also received a commendation for House Alteration and Addition over 200 sqm. A full list of the awards results can be found… more
POMO tree house studio wins sustainability award
31 Jul 2014The Sunshine Coast studio of creative agency POMO has been named the Sustainable Building of the Year – Commercial Building at the Queensland Building Design Awards. Designed by creative director Stephen Burton and Simon Scott of SSB Design Studio, the tree house bush studio engaged locally sourced materials and labour to shape the sustainable workspace. more
Artichoke Night School returns to Brisbane
24 Jul 2014What inspires you? To some the answers come swiftly and in abundance. To others, this question is a most vexing one. more
White and wood combine in new Two Trees fit-out
10 Jul 2014A heartwarming example of the beauty of collaboration, the new fit-out at Two Trees is the result of a bounty of local folk coming together. more
Queensland meets Japan in Architecture: Made by Women
10 Jul 2014Brisbane Powerhouse’s latest exhibition Architecture: Made by Women launches an enquiry into gender, the design process and the role of gender in architecture. more
The Swarm co-working studio launches in West End
03 Jul 2014A space to create, converse and mull over ideas with others, a shared co-working studio gives individual entrepreneurs the community support of an office environment, while maintaining the space to knuckle down solo. The ever-increasing field of start-ups has opened a need for more joint workspaces to share with likeminded creatives. more
Queensland Architecture Awards announced for 2014
26 Jun 2014Last Friday evening, local architects dressed up in their finest threads and headed to the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre to hear who made the cut in the 2014 Queensland Architecture Awards. Projects from Brisbane and throughout the state were considered across 11 categories, with 34 projects receiving awards and commendations. more
Enter your cafe in the Eat Drink Design Awards
19 Jun 2014Each year we peel back the pages of artichoke magazine with anticipation, hoping to see a few Brisbane-based cafes and restaurants amongst the beautiful venues that take out the top spots in Architecture Media’s annual Eat Drink Design Awards. While we appreciate that there is a surfeit of beautiful new cafes, bars and restaurants dotting the country (and our neighbour New Zealand) to choose from, we would love to see more of our city’s excellent locales recognised at a national level. more
2014 Premier’s Sustainability Awards winners announced
05 Jun 2014There are those who dream, those who do – and those who achieve both. The 2014 Premier’s Sustainability Awards recognised the champions who walk the talk in terms of sustainable practices in the annual competition last week. more
Indoor treehouse thrives in progressive childcare centre
29 May 2014A New Zealand-based architecture firm has harnessed a childlike sense of curiosity and combined it with a sharp eye for design to craft a state-of-the-art childcare centre in Wynnum. more
Stay at the newly opened Gambaro Hotel in Petrie Terrace
08 May 2014Set in the heart of the Caxton Street precinct sits a feat of design that provides a sleek home-away-from-home for design-savvy visitors to Brisbane. An urban refuge of 68 rooms, the new Gambaro Hotel welcomes its discerning guests as if they had always lived within its cosy designer interior. more
Sunshine Coast Architecture Awards announces finalists
17 Apr 2014In the lead up to the Queensland Architecture Awards in June, a smattering of regional projects are being announced as finalists around the state. In the Sunshine Coast Architecture Awards announced this month, 12 of the 22 entries were commended. more
Liam Young explores near-future urbanism at SLQ
10 Apr 2014Pushing the boundaries of radical theoretical futures, Liam Young is the founder of London-based think tank Tomorrow’s Thoughts Today. Liam is also a UQ expat, and he returns to Brisbane next week to engage the local community in his theorems for future urbanism. more
Base Architecture creates time-lapse camera prototype
03 Apr 2014One sunny Brisbane afternoon, an architect, a creative director and an electrical engineer who had gotten together for a few beers came about the discussion topic that it would be interesting to capture the construction process of a building – the drawings and plans being brought to three-dimensional life. A little market research for a reasonably costed product left the trio empty handed, and so, armed with a few more beers, ideas on how to build one began to roll in and they set about creating a prototype time-lapse camera. more
Brisbane Airport Corporation plans domestic terminal hotels
03 Apr 2014Change is a-happening at Brisbane Airport. A freshening up of the International Terminal is underway, designed by Richards & Spence in collaboration with Arkhefield, and now Brisbane Airport Corporation (BAC) has put plans in motion to create a new hotel precinct at the domestic terminal. more
Gaze at Drawn by Design in Sydney
27 Mar 2014An integral part of the design process of an architect or designer, the initial sketch may be scribbled over, scrunched up, repeated and refined many times before a final drawing is produced. But these growing ideas and patterns of thought evident on the page can often be just as much works of art as the resulting edifice or object. more
Entries close soon for House Awards
20 Mar 2014Presented by Houses magazine, the Houses Awards is an annual program celebrating the country’s best residential projects. Last year, Brisbane practice James Russell Architect’s Bisley Place house took out the top prize, while A-CH (Atelier Chen Hung) won the New House under 200 sqm category for its Keperra House. Delivering insight into the contemporary residential architecture scene, the awards showcase the result of innovation and design thinking applied to the humble home. Entries close on Friday March 28. more
Attend the Design Speaks: Our Houses talk with local architects
13 Mar 2014Known for their engagement with clients and moulding their residential designs to best reflect the way the client will live in the space, two Brisbane architects will give insight into their creative process at a design-thinking talk at The Edge. more