ArchitectureAU

1 week 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.

2 weeks 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.

2 weeks 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.

2 weeks ago | architectureau.com | Tom Grant |Elizabeth Farrelly

Stopping sprawl? It’s a no-brainer. We’ve known this for half a century or more, yet no one will say it. Even professionals are wary of the topic while, for a politician, being photo-opped with an “end to sprawl” placard would be seriously brave, and not in a good way. You can imagine the pile-on. “End of the Australian dream,” headlines would shout. Then again, with the great Australian dream fast becoming a nightmare – unaffordable, unsustainable, inequitable – maybe the time has come?

2 weeks ago | architectureau.com | Adair Winder

Australia and the Netherlands are both facing housing crises, but for opposite reasons. In Australia, urban sprawl is a key challenge, while in the Netherlands, the issue comes down to a shortage of available land. Despite these contrasting conditions, both countries share a need for urban densification.