Recent Articles

• Blueprint City

  Cities for people: Jan Gehl

  Jan Gehl, renowned Danish architect, urban design consultant and champion of the human scale, is a great believer in walking. “There is more to walking than walking”, he says, a point which Mitra Anderson-Oliver has cause to reflect on over the two days spent pursuing Jan on foot during his trip to Melbourne for an international study tour, during the hottest autumn week in Victoria’s history

• Happenings

  Sou Fujimoto’s Serpentine Gallery pavilion

  Since 2000, London's world-renown Serpentine Gallery has commissioned leading architects to design a summer pavilion on the lawn outside the gallery's HQ in Kensington Gardens. In 2013, Japan's Sou Fujimoto is the thirteenth architect (and at 41, the youngest) to accept the invitation to design a temporary structure. His cloud-like steel form is now open to the public until October 2013

• Less is More

  Transformer House

  Transformer House sits behind red brick walls on a 50m2 parcel of land, the smallest sub-division in the City of Moreland. An angular, timber-clad roof encases its first floor, folding in and away from a towering transformer, from which the project takes its electrified name. With a suite of obstacles, this design challenge in utilitarian sustainability was no sweat for Brunswick's Breathe