Category: Architecture

August 25, 2010 6:00 pm

A prototype building by developers Grocon, which has gained a perfect Green Star Score (including 5 of the available innovation credits). The project is also aiming for carbon neutrality, LEED platinum rating and the Worlds highest rating under BREEAM.

3rd floor Seminar Room, 41 Exhibition Street, Melbourne. More info.

Also you can read about the Pixel Building at the Australian Design Review

August 20, 2010 to August 21, 2010

The symposium draws together international and Australian architects and landscape architects who have demonstrated commitment to a social agenda and have made significant contribution to the public realm. Image by Phooey

August 30, 2010 to September 1, 2010

What impact will the debate over sustainable population for Australia have on our existing cities? The conference will examine how our new cities are conceived and our existing ones are adapted, re-designed and managed.

The Bulle[n]tin is the Urban Village Melbourne newsletter, published fortnightly covering creative projects associated with UVM. #22 is available now (download) and features Bindarri’s Climate redesign

Here you can find an archive of the contents page from each Bulle[n]tin. For full copies of Bulle[n]tins or to request a subscription please contact UVM: info@urbanvillagemelbourne.net

Green has been created as a direct response to the high demand for information on sustainable architecture and landscape design. With increasing awareness of the impact building practices have on the environment, homeowners are searching for long-term ways to reduce the strain on resources and energy by designing their houses and gardens in a sustainable manner. Issue #14 out now (preview available online in e-boom format).

July 21, 2010

IntentCITY discusses the “political city” – the public space that affects us all – the built environment, ecology, citizens, and particularly our involvement in war and what can be done to prevent it.
The book will be launched on Wednesday July 21, 7pm at Level 2 Myer Bridge, above Lonsdale Street, Melbourne Central.