GREEN MAGAZINE is Australia's leading magazine for inspirational stories on sustainable architecture featuring local and international houses, gardens and profiles. Discover spectacular city, country and coastal homes and gardens featuring environmental design with lots of personality, as well as profiles on people engaged in new and exciting projects.
apaiser • Apaiser has been transforming bathware since 2000. With a vision to develop a durable and natural material, apaiserMarble® was created, comprising 80-90% reclaimed waste marble. Designed in Australia and handcrafted at their atelier in Thailand, the Apaiser collection is redefining the bathing experience.
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Anonymous
Rust
Wonder Moss
The Prototype
New Again
Win Win
DIY
Layers
Sweet Dreams
Teamwork
Keep it Local
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Growing Buildings • The London-based organisation Material Cultures is underpinned by a mission to shift the norms, values and materials of construction culture.
Versatile • What stands out about recent prefabricated buildings is their sheer flexibility. While some are still simple, increasingly the forms – and materials – of prefab are becoming more complex. This collection includes multi-storey and even multi-residential examples across Australia and New Zealand.
Well Spotted • Identifying rare Tasmanian Modernism, a client with an eye for detail gathers like minds to retain and extend a faded beauty.
Seen and Heard • A deft renovation uses a few key moves to honour an inner-city terrace, bringing functionality and flow to a small home that suits a creative family of five to a tee.
Hide And Peak • A family project a decade in the making turns local housing conventions on their head, with an indoor-outdoor delight of vaulted pavilions and a 40-metre-long spine perfect for play.
Breathe Easy • In Canberra’s extremes of weather, it takes deep thoughts and ideas to create a year-round cocoon.
Flotsam and Jetsam • The experience of swimming in a stunning new ocean pool begins and ends in these equally beautiful changerooms.
All Seasons
Funnel
Solid Bones
Playtime • The reinvention of a concrete schoolyard into a soft, accommodating and inviting space serves as a hallmark of collaboration with young people
Friends in Deed • Soil, plant positioning and a little regular maintenance will get you most of the way. And beautiful hard landscaping will do the rest.
Buoyed in Bundanon • The legacy of Arthur Boyd resonates throughout an extended Bundanon stay revolving around the exhibition bagan bariwariganyan: echoes of country.
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