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Green Magazine • 27th May 2020

Inside Citizen.MDW: a café for the circular economy

Can one think of Melbourne without thinking of coffee? It’s far from breaking news that Melburnians can’t get enough of the stuff. What is perhaps less known, however, is how a humble cup of coffee can change the world.

Green Magazine • 13th May 2020

A place for meeting and learning: the Women’s House of Ouled Merzoug

A piece of land in Ouled Merzoug – a small, earthen village near the Atlas Mountains in Morocco – is a meeting place in more ways than one.

Green Magazine • 7th May 2020

Bethan Gray: design storyteller

It was a love of natural materials that led to Welsh furniture and homeware designer, Bethan Gray establishing her acclaimed studio.

Green Magazine • 16th March 2020

Renaissance Man

Environmental activist and florist Joost Bakker’s mission to eliminate waste continues to lead him to exciting new frontiers.

Green Magazine • 26th February 2020

Gillies Hall: a passive house benchmark

In the face of the climate crisis, the necessity for architects to create projects that positively impact the environment is undeniable. Monash University’s student accommodation complex in Frankston, Gillies Hall, sets its own benchmark in sustainability.

Green Magazine • 5th February 2020

Architects Declare Australia: a growing climate emergency movement

Architects Declare Australia is the local branch of a global movement of architects declaring a climate and biodiversity emergency.

Green Magazine • 26th November 2019

2019 NGV Architecture Commission unveiled

Contemporary artist Yhonnie Scarce and Melbourne architecture studio Edition Office’s iteration of the National Gallery of Victoria Architecture Commission, In Absence, has opened to the public.

Green Magazine • 21st August 2019

Loose Leaf Studio transforms disused petrol station

Fossil is the latest botanical installation from Wona Bae and Charlie Lawler, the experimental minds behind Melbourne’s Loose Leaf Studio.

Green Magazine • 13th August 2019

Organic

Designed by Amber Road for Edition Coffee Roasters in Sydney, this café packs an astounding amount of Japanese-inspired panache into its 110-square-metres. A moody palette of black, charcoal and inky indigos is the perfect accompaniment to Japanese...

Green Magazine • 16th July 2019

Behind Oak REDefined: Fine furniture on an architectural scale

Oak REDefined is a collaboration with Australian architect and furniture designer Adam Markowitz and graphic artist Marcus Piper with the American Hardwood Export Council (AHEC), presented at Denfair 2019.

Green Magazine • 21st June 2019

On the ground at A.G.M. Expo '19

Friends & Associates’ annual exhibition has returned for 2019 with renewed vigour, bringing together works from more than sixty of the best makers and minds in the Australian design industry.

Green Magazine • 20th June 2019

Our picks from Denfair 2019

This year’s iteration of Denfair is based around the theme of ‘LIFE WORK’ – bringing attention to designs that address the integration of our personal and working lives.

Green Magazine • 23rd May 2019

Living Cities Forum 2019 Melbourne highlights

Held in Melbourne on 23 May at Federation Square, the 2019 edition of Living Cities Forum featured internationally-renowned speakers to address the theme of ‘Future Needs’.

Green Magazine • 11th May 2019

2019 Landscape Australia Conference: Cultivating New Agencies

Today’s 2019 Landscape Australia Conference, held in Melbourne, brought together local and international speakers on the role of landscape in shaping our future through the design, planning and management of gardens, cities and regions.

Green Magazine • 1st May 2019

The Living Pavilion celebrates Indigenous knowledge and sustainability

The Living Pavilion, a 17-day event exploring and honouring Indigenous knowledge, ecological science and sustainability has opened at Melbourne University’s Parkville Campus.

Green Magazine • 23rd April 2019

University College London develops tiles that clean and regenerate water

In India alone, it is estimated that up to 80 per cent of the surface and ground waters are polluted. With this statistic in mind, University College London (UCL) academics came together to devise an interdisciplinary approach to water pollution.

Green Magazine • 2nd April 2019

Unlocked Potential

This transformation was carried out with conscience and forethought – the former reflected in a design strategy to touch “as little as possible and as much as necessary”, and the latter in the knowledge that a workplace must cater to both physical and...

Treadlie Magazine • 1st April 2019

Oonee: the modular future of bike parking

“Typically, to be a cyclist in New York City, you had to be like a road warrior,” notes Shabazz Stuart, founder & CEO of startup, Oonee. Certainly, as a local cyclist he had suffered multiple casualties: the theft of three bikes in a five-year period...

Green Magazine • 27th March 2019

What's on at MIFGS 2019

The Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show (MIFGS) is back for 2019 from 27 – 31 March. It’s positive to see sustainability being made a point of discussion this year through the work of AKAS Landscape Architecture, whose garden Anthropogenic...

Green Magazine • 14th March 2019

Our guide to Melbourne Design Week 2019

Melbourne Design Week opens today and will run until 24 March. Its extensive and varied program brings together leading designers, artists and thinkers to respond to the central theme of in addition to addressing the five “big ideas” of The War on...