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Putting the World Back to Work
With people just stepping forth from the solitude of their homes, cautiously reemerging into the public sphere, how does one plan and design public places? The answer just might lie in BIM and generative [...]
Classic Meets Contemporary: The Right Way to Specify
If you want to have smooth going of your next building project, start the process by specifying. For many building designers, the specification process once proved overly technical and complicated. Yet thanks to a new [...]
Sustainability Soars to New Heights
The ultimate ecoconscious tower design has arrived, in the form of the 180-metre, 40-storey hybrid timber building in Sydney that will serve as the headquarters of software brand Atlassian. This exquisite office building actually gives [...]
Stamp Duty Cut Gets Stamp of Approval
A government plan to dissolve stamp duty on new homes priced less than $800,000 and cut thousands for residences up to $1 million is set to benefit the NSW building industry and the state’s first [...]
NSW Building Designer Registration
The New South Wales (NSW) Government unanimously passed the Design and Building Practitioners Bill 2019. The legislation, designed to most literally ‘rebuild’ and regulate the building industry, may seem imposing at first but BDAA industry [...]
Planting the Seeds
Robotic building design is advancing via the Future Tree project, a timber canopy constructed with robots in a project prepared by Gramazio Kohler Research and ETH Zurich. Finished in October 2019, after a couple of years of planning [...]