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Emerging Architect Prize Winners

Each prize winner has proven to be talented, creative and poetic in their designs. They live and breathe architecture. 

What defines a successful project, practice & career?

What defines a successful project, practice & career? A topic that resonated with a room full of fresh graduates and professionals, who had ventured out on a dreary Tuesday night to gain some wisdom from our esteemed panel of speakers. 

National Student Congress - People 2015

“Each decision you make…you affect people. This is the responsibility of the designer.” -Mercedes Mambort, Student Congress Creative director 

NSW Architecture Awards

The night truly shone a light on the best of NSW architecture reardless of the size and reputation of each firm, the scale of the architecture or, as was highlighted, gender.

Residential, Semi-Commercial or Domestic?

Domestic, Residential, Commercial, Semi-Commercial? You hear these terms a lot when architects, builders and window manufacturers talk about windows and doors. But what do they mean. Let us break it down for you. 

Victorian Architecture Awards Night

If the National Architecture Conference is an annual occasion to don our thinking hats and ponder, the Victorian Architecture awards are an occasion to toss off said hats and simply…party.  

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Care & Maintenance

A very simple regular maintenance program is required in order to comply with warranty requirements and will aid in retaining the appeal of your windows and doors for many years to come.

National Architecture Conference - Risk

The profession is currently at a crossroads in Australia.  The role of the Architect has become increasingly marginalized in projects large and small. The public often does not understand the value we can offer.  Restrictive modes of practice and an increasingly litigious environment mean that Risk is the proverbial ‘monster under the bed’ that everyone fears or wants to eliminate. 

National Architecture Conference - Breakfast

The National Architecture Conference is a yearly gathering convened by the Australian Institute of Architects (AIA). Over two days, there is much dissection of the issues facing the profession through the prism of an over-arching theme. This year’s theme – Risk - had great resonance for young architectural graduates too.