Innovation

Henning Stummel Architects have set about reinventing flat pack furniture with their new range, which seeks to minimise waste, showing at the London Design Festival.

The Hungry Fox cafe in Essendon Fields, Melbourne, is Australia’s first structure to utilise an innovative new thermally modified American tulipwood.

MultiPly is an interactive exhibition currently on show in the courtyard of the V&A museum in London for the London Design Festival. A joint collaboration between the American Hardwood Export Council (AHEC), Arup Engineering and Waugh Thistleton Architects, the project aims to showcase the engineered timber product Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT), into the European market.

Löyly, a Finnish word that represents the steam that arises from throwing water on hot stones, is a new public sauna designed by Finnish firm Avanto Architects, in Helsinki.

The Shipwreck Lodge is a luxury 20-bed, Eco-tourism resort located in an isolated location in the midst of the wild, but beautifully desolate Skeleton Coast Desert in Namibia.

A practical hub of the home, this luxurious timber feature provides a stunning sculptural element bathed in light.

The EY Centre is one of Australia’s most environmentally advanced and sustainable buildings, with initiatives carried through from design and construction to delivery. The envelope is a responsive skin, a kinetic architecture adjusting automatically to the position of the sun and time of day to control the heat load and sky glare.

The new European headquarters for global financial data, software and media colossus Bloomberg sets sustainability records with its stunning and innovative use of red oak.

Conus Lighting Range is the 2017 winner of the Australian Timber Design Awards, Furniture or Joinery category. The range utilises versatile component based design, and pairs digital modelling design with hand-finished integrity.

FT Architect’s Archery Hall is a renovation of a brick warehouse from 1896, first designed and built by Shimizu-ten to store silk worm cocoons.