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2024 Sustainability Awards Winners

2024 Sustainability Awards Winners

The 2024 Sustainability Awards Winners bestowed its honours on 18 winners, with 10 others receiving honourable mentions — a small gesture for contributions that loom large in our shared narrative of sustainability.

Cheers to savouring local talent at Beenleigh

Cheers to savouring local talent at Beenleigh

In the bustling coastal corridor between the Gold Coast and Brisbane, the new Distillery Road Markets precinct has become a major drawcard for tourists and locals alike. At the heart of this creative redevelopment of a former industrial precinct is The FED, which stands for Food, Entertainment and Dining.

And that’s a wrap: Saturday Indesign was a design lover’s playground

And that’s a wrap: Saturday Indesign was a design lover’s playground

From panel talks with luminaries to interactive installations, Saturday Indesign 2024 delivered a convivial experience for Australia’s design community.

Recapping the glorious Gala of the 2024 INDE.Awards

Recapping the glorious Gala of the 2024 INDE.Awards

It was a night to remember as the 2024 INDE.Awards gala delivered an amazing evening of architecture and design, and also provided the opportunity to renew connections, make new friends and just have fun!

Celebrating the best of Regional Design in the Indo-Pacific for 2024 – INDE.Awards Winners are Revealed!

Celebrating the best of Regional Design in the Indo-Pacific for 2024 – INDE.Awards Winners are Revealed!

The winners of the 2024 INDE.Awards were announced at a spectacular gala hosted by The Ritz-Carlton, Melbourne, Australia. Discover the exemplary projects, people and products that reflect the diversity of the Indo-Pacific.

Feeding new design expression with net zero impact

Feeding new design expression with net zero impact

The story of Verosol is one of vision and innovation. Since the 1960s the company has been pushing the boundaries of sustainable design to positively impact our built environment, give back to the natural environment, and nurture new creative expression. How do they do it? We’re about to find out.

A forever home among the fig trees

A forever home among the fig trees

Amidst the vibrant hum of Brisbane’s West End, a gorgeous tri-level home embraces nature within and without. Overlooking Orleigh Park with its stately Moreton Bay fig trees and the winding waters of the Brisbane River, the design of the home fuses the lifestyle of the owners with the essence of contemporary sustainable design.

Back to basics at Zero Gipps: First-principles sustainability with SJB and Verosol

Back to basics at Zero Gipps: First-principles sustainability with SJB and Verosol

Beau Fulwood and Alison Peach on returning to a low-tech, first-principles concept of design as a strategy to combat climate change.

Responding to people and place within the cancer treatment journey

Responding to people and place within the cancer treatment journey

Explore the future of cancer treatment at the Australian Bragg Centre, where a revolutionary design by Woods Bagot integrates cutting-edge proton therapy with patient-centric features, including natural light and adaptive Verosol blinds, creating a space that merges innovation and empathy for a holistic healing journey.

Light, nature and connection – an aesthetic for physics at ANU

Light, nature and connection – an aesthetic for physics at ANU

With its stunning outlooks over Lake Burley Griffin, the new ANU Research School of Physics building, designed by Hassell, was an opportunity to embed wellbeing features as a primary element of the aesthetic. There is a clear alignment between the building blocks of the discipline – light, energy, matter and the interconnections between objects and […]

Celebrating the winners from the 2023 Sustainability Awards

Celebrating the winners from the 2023 Sustainability Awards

The pressing need for widespread change has never been more crucial. This year’s Sustainability Awards has called out the masters and leaders of sustainable architecture and design in 2023.

Wurriki Nyal – a fusion of aesthetics and performance

Wurriki Nyal – a fusion of aesthetics and performance

Transparency and connection are significant themes in the design scheme for the new Wurriki Nyal Civic Precinct.  In combination with the world-class sustainability goals of the client, City of Greater Geelong, this poses a challenge for an architect: how to resolve the conflict between expansive views and glazing as a dominant façade element, while ensuring comfortable indoor temperatures and minimised glare.