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ArchitectureAU.com, which started in November 2011, is a constantly evolving online platform for those passionate about architecture and the built environment. This vibrant website offers a wealth of information, featuring daily news updates, unique insights from top writers, professionals, scholars, and critics, as well as a growing collection of completed projects. The carefully organized content is easy to navigate, encompassing categories such as projects, awards, news, reviews, practices, people, discussions, products, and events.

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Is regulation really to blame for the housing affordability crisis?

1 week ago | architectureau.com | Nicole Gurran

The Albanese government has a new mantra to describe the housing crisis, which is showing no signs of abating: homes have simply become “too hard to build” in Australia. The prime minister and senior ministers are taking aim at what they are calling a “thicket” of red tape and regulation, which is making it “uneconomic” to build affordable housing. Undoubtedly, the great Australian dream is further out of reach, with average house prices now above A$1 million for the first time.
Architects awarded 2025 Marten Bequest Scholarships

3 weeks ago | architectureau.com | Adair Winder

Two Australian architects have been announced as recipients of the 2025 Marten Bequest Scholarship, a program that supports young artists to undertake research in their field of expertise through interstate and international travel. Architects Nicole Larkin from New South Wales and Lauren Crockett from Victoria, along with five professionals from other creative disciplines, have been awarded travelling scholarships worth $50,000 each.
Eva and Marc Besen Centre by Kerstin Thompson Architects

3 weeks ago | architectureau.com | Katelin Butler

The idea of “companionship” is palpable in much of the work of Kerstin Thompson Architects (KTA) – companionship between what already exists on site and what is new. There is always a deeply considered response to the layers of history, built and unbuilt, that results in buildings comprehensively embedded in their context.
Marina Tabassum's kinetic 2025 Serpentine Pavilion opens

3 weeks ago | architectureau.com | Adair Winder

The 2025 Serpentine Pavilion, designed by Bangladeshi architect and educator Marina Tabassum and her firm Marina Tabassum Architects, opens to the public on 6 June. The pavilion, titled A Capsule in Time, is located at the Serpentine South Gallery in London. Inspired by an arched garden canopy, the pavilion’s form resembles a capsule with its mass divided into four portions and an open-air courtyard positioned at the centre.
The Design Dozen with George Livissianis

3 weeks ago | architectureau.com | Cassie Hansen

George Livissianis founded his self-named studio in 2007. He has worked locally and internationally in interior architecture, residential buildings and products and his dedication to finely crafted, minimal, modest and unpretentious design has won him several Australian Interior Design Awards and Eat Drink Design Awards. Here, George sits down and answers The Design Dozen. 1. What was your seminal design moment?
Revised plans filed for final stage of Melbourne's Jam Factory redevelopment

3 weeks ago | architectureau.com | Adair Winder

Updated plans for the third and final stage of the Melbourne Jam Factory precinct redevelopment have been lodged. Built in 1858, the Jam Factory was first established as a brewery, later becoming a factory for producing preserves and jams, before eventually evolving to become a retail and cinema precinct in the 1990s. Now, the factory site is set to be transformed once again into a mixed-use hub with retail, residential, accommodation and hospitality offerings.
Kanooka House by Knight Office and Dan Wilson

4 weeks ago | architectureau.com | Adair Winder

Trust was an essential ingredient in bringing Kanooka House by Knight Office and Dan Wilson to life. Like many projects conceived during the height of the pandemic, the project was subjected to unexpected design changes and pivots that are not always easy for clients to accept. By meeting these changes with trust, the clients granted the architects the freedom to respond to challenges creatively, resulting in a thoughtfully resolved and flexible home.
The Edit: A round-up of favourite furniture and objects

1 month ago | architectureau.com | Cassie Hansen

Agra Forma series from ArmadilloArmadillo’s Agra Forma collection is something a little different for the rug company. Launched during Melbourne Design Week and created in collaboration with renowned designer Tom Fereday, the seven sculptural furniture pieces are rooted in Armadillo’s iconic Agra rug, blending the rug’s abrash-dyed wool with American red oak.
Composed in contrasts: 2025 Dulux Study Tour, Barcelona

1 month ago | architectureau.com | Adair Winder

“Barcelona is full of imperfections,” architect and CEO of Guiding Architects Barcelona Lorenzo Kárász told the winners of the 2025 Australian Institute of Architects Dulux Study Tour during a cycling tour of the city. Kárász was quick to emphasise that the city’s beauty lies not in perfection, symmetry nor stylistic harmony, but in the complex layering of styles, ideas and histories embedded within the built environment.
Holocene House by C Plus C Architects and Builders, Jase Sullivan and Duncan Gibbs

1 month ago | architectureau.com | Bronwyn Marshall

Elevated on a dramatically sloping site in Manly, Holocene House was designed for a family with an ambitious brief for a climate-positive home. The aim, shared by client and architect-builder, was to redefine conventional approaches to residential sustainability, embracing permeability, material innovation and the potential symbiosis between architecture and landscape. “We weren’t designing to tick sustainability boxes,” explains C Plus C Architects and Builders director Clinton Cole.