#73 May-June 2020

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Design . Architecture . Landscape . Travel

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Upfront
“Bang Bang ™ ”, who’s there? It’s a hand-cast bronze door knocker, designed by Max Hunt of Hunt Furniture and made in South Australia. huntfurniture.com.au Daniel To and Emma Aiston (of eponymous South Australian design studio DANIEL EMMA) give new
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Slow and Steady
In many ways, modern life is all about going fast. We have communication at our fingertips, whatever we want virtually one click away and it can feel like the 9-to-5 grind never really stops grinding. In the midst of the madness, it takes guts to go
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Editorial
Whilst restriction of movement has caused frustration and devastation for many, spending more time at home brings with it opportunities for growth and experimentation. We are lucky at our place to have a garden large enough to grow veggies and keep c
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Rewritten
A resonant ‘ding-ding-ding’ from a nearby railway crossing bounces down this surprisingly quiet bluestone cobbled laneway, only to be absorbed by a verdant wall of green scaling a galvanised chain-link fence. Next door, and atop a cream brick factory
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Challenge Accepted
The western sun can be brutal in the subtropics. For the summer months particularly, the intensity of heat and glare that besieges the late afternoon is unbearable until sunset. Relief comes when the last rays are extinguished and the cooling north-e
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Variety Show
This property’s knockout location overlooking Wallis Lake on the mid-north coast of NSW is likely the envy of many (this writer included). The task fell to Matthew Woodward Architecture to design a robust home that made the very most of the stunning
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Walking the Talk
Understanding who, where and how products are made, the ethical and ecological impacts involved, as well as how raw materials are sourced is part of a growing consciousness toward accountable consumerism. Tait are devoted to continually improving sus
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Hardworking Beauty
Perched in the upstairs lounge room of their timber-clad ‘long house’, we’re surrounded by the towering eucalypts and discreet bushy tracks that drew Oahn and Justin Harding to this pretty little pocket of Melbourne’s east near lush Laburnum. Even as
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Future Proof
According to research by UNSW’s City Futures Research Centre in 2019, Australia will need 295 000 affordable rental homes by 2036. That’s 14 800 houses per year for low- and moderate-income earners to rent or purchase. In building affordable housing,
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Permaculture Tips
Seeds have always been an amazing part of growing your own food. To take a tiny woody capsule, often beautiful in itself, and push it into the ground, and then watch it develop with its own little plan into a plant that will not only feed you but pro
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Upfront Garden
Want more greenery in your space but not sure how to arrange it? For your consideration, we present: “GreenFrame”, designed by Kauppi & Kauppi and produced by Glimakra of Sweden. glimakra.com/en The folks at Botanopia are all about celebrating the m
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Serendipity
If you thought creating a garden that was productive, complex and a delight to occupy required anything more than intuition, Alex Chomicz has a technique that proves otherwise. His extraordinary garden emerged almost by accident, mostly self seeding
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What I Like About You
Pittwater, Sydney Architect: Richard Leplastrier I grew up sailing a dinghy around Pittwater. Travelling slowly and exploring the green waters on the edge of Ku-ring-gai National Park, I sailed to an ancient landscape discovering secret inlets and t
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Mountains, Moors and Rainforests
The first day of our hike from Cradle Mountain to Lake Saint Clair commenced at Waldheim Chalet and it was immediately apparent that our guides, Chloe and Annie from Tasmanian Walking Co, were not only exuberant but highly experienced and knowledgeab
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Local Legend
A passionate project between a water conservation advocate and a water management company still has a chance to be seen by the public – fingers crossed. Melbourne design firm Phillip Withers and Yarra Valley Water were invited to design an ‘Honorary

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