Innholdsfortegnelse for #105 Sep-Oct 2025 i Green Magazine

47 Easey Street: Remnants and Resonances invited a diverse group of artists with connections to the building’s layered past and evolving future to transform salvaged materials from the site into new works. Two pieces stood out – Jason Parker’s Fleeting Moments, a rescued concrete lintel salvaged by Revival Projects and adorned with hopeful visions of nature to evoke a balance between permanence and decay; and Elise Cakebread’s Carpet Croquis I which refashioned discarded carpet samples into a ‘rough sketch’ extending her ongoing investigations into techniques, processes and strategies for transforming textile waste. jasonparkerart.com / elisecakebread.com / barstudio.com…

LOCATION CAMPERDOWN / BIRCHGROVE / PUTTY VALLEY • "Please join us as we bid farewell to our second drone this year," reads an Instagram post by BUSHY from August 2024. The image is blurred by fingers blocking the lens on its left side. Two concerned, slightly out-of-focus faces peer down against a leafy backdrop. It's not the beautiful or sleek image you’d expect to see on a social media page of a company that works in design – but it is charming. The rest of their Instagram grid is similarly engaging, featuring posts about dogs met on projects, a truck called Princess Dai and educational content about plant species. As you many have guessed by now, BUSHY Landscapes is not a typical design practice. In fact, it’s not solely a…

LOCATION TOORERNO-MAIRE-MENER COUNTRY / FREYCINET PENINSULA / TAS • The diversity of Tasmanian landscapes is remarkable. From glacially carved lakes, towering dolerite peaks, a wild storm-lashed west coast to this serene and spectacular location on the northern reaches of Great Oyster Bay. The siting of Saffire Freycinet is above a peaceful cove west of Coles Bay town with a surreal view of The Hazards to the east and the ever-changing hues of the pink granite peaks. We had visited the Freycinet Peninsula on several camping expeditions, yet this invitation for a three-day stay was to be a revelation as we hiked, swam and explored. Arriving early at Coles Bay on a crisp winter’s morning we headed straight to the trailhead in Freycinet National Park, Tasmania’s oldest, established in 1916. Our…

MASS is a compact, sculptural table lamp by Dirk du Toit. Designed to cast soft ambient light, it has a bold, monolithic profile and a strong sense of proportion, with layered construction that shows subtle shifts in tone and texture. Made entirely in Australia, it comes in two versions: sustainably sourced walnut crafted in Melbourne, and locally collected post-consumer recycled High Density Polyethylene made in Sydney. Each component is CNC-machined to create a rich, stratified composition, with the natural variation in each material giving every lamp its own distinct character. dutoit.studio…

In the late 1980s, after erosion had left their land depleted, Andrew and Jill Stewart began planting trees on their 230-hectare Yan Yan Gurt West Farm in Victoria’s Otway Ranges. Guided by agroforestry scientist Rowan Reid, they have since planted 50 000 trees and shrubs, increasing woody vegetation on the property from three to 18 per cent. Decades of work have restored soils, improved biodiversity and livestock health, and now support a thriving cabinet-grade timber production. Cut to 2025 and The Making of Material – an innovative project led by multidisciplinary designer Bronwen Main of Main Studio, in collaboration with renowned furniture designer Mark Tuckey. Using timber from the Stewarts’ regenerative operation, the duo created a three-piece furniture collection to showcase the potential of agroforestry. Refined and built at the…

LOCATION GADIGAL COUNTRY / MARRICKVILLE / NSW • When the back part of your house is a badly built addition, it makes sense to keep the front part and be creative with the rest. And creativity is the watchword for Art House, designed by Panov Scott for two artist slash academics and their small family in the Sydney suburb of Marrickville. The house is a semi with an extra-long garden, the result of irregularshaped lots adjacent to the freight rail corridor. The owners had already worked with Panov Scott in 2015 to replace the ramshackle sheds in the garden with Art Shed, a long building clad in timber from old telegraph poles where the owners have his and hers art studios. This small project acted as a testing ground for…

LOCATION WADAWURRUNG AND GADUBANUD COUNTRY / AIREYS INLET / VIC • “We don’t follow fashion,” says architect Tim O’Sullivan of Multiplicity. “A great deal of architecture is about fashion. We like to think our buildings have enough character that, no matter what the fashion, when someone comes here in 50 or 60 years’ time, we’re hoping they’ll say, ‘There’s something about this house’.” If they don’t, they’ll be an inexplicably tough crowd. The beach house Tim, interior designer Sioux Clark and their Multiplicity colleagues Natasha Wheatland and Shayne Lacy have designed for their former client and firm friend Gaby, her two dogs and a large roster of regular guests is beguiling in every possible way. From the street, the long, slim, single-storey form sits lightly on a rectangular corner site.…

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At this year’s Architecture Biennale in Venice, visitors to the Danish Pavilion could easily mistake it for a construction site. The building, originally designed by Danish architect Peter Koch in the 1950s, was in need of repairs. In an ongoing experimental process, a demolition of sorts sees the existing materials imaginatively reused rather than discarded. The entire process invites visitors to witness a kind of open and live laboratory. Curated by Pihlmann Architects in collaboration with academics, craftspeople and material specialists, the project focuses on combining the existing materials within the building with bio-based elements and reimagining them as an example of resource-conscious architecture. “Taking care of an existing building is far more interesting – and meaningful – than building a new one," commented Pihlmann Architects' director and creative lead,…

The London plane tree, a hybrid of the American sycamore and oriental plane first recorded in 1548, has long been valued for its resilience in cities and resistance to pollution. In Melbourne, it dominates 70 per cent of the inner-city canopy, yet a City of Melbourne plan will reduce its numbers to just five per cent over the next 40 years due to invasive roots, obstructive limbs and allergy-inducing spores. Goodbye London Plane – curated by Andy Ward and hosted by Ben Mooney of Ma House – set out to show how the city’s fallen and felled London plane trees can be repurposed rather than chipped. Makers Andy Ward, Georgie Szymanski, Sean Brickhill, Nick Aylward, Lauren Henderson, Billie Civello, Bohdan Cherednyk and Budd Heyser transformed its richly grained timber into…

LOCATION PALAWA COUNTRY / SPRING BEACH / TAS • A 44-acre predominantly bush block on Tasmania’s east coast with an astonishing ocean view, two sisters, an innovative builder and a clever, Tasmanian-born architect. What could possibly emerge from such a collaboration of nature and minds? The sisters (the clients) purchased the former semi-agricultural block above Spring Beach with the aim of renovating the existing cabin. When Georgie Forbes-Smith, from Scale Architecture, first walked around the site, it was clear the ‘cabin’ was in fact a dilapidated, wooden shed. So, a new build was proposed, with the clients realising the many new opportunities this would provide. This new build – a pavilion – is still reminiscent of the small, postwar, holiday shacks once found around Tasmania. Often no more than glorified…

LOCATION AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND • Eight-year-old Will has his head buried in a Conrad novel that might yet prove a little beyond his level, but he’s determined to make the most of his time as sole occupant of the comfy sun-kissed bench seat before his elder sister gets home from school. Reframing the floorplan of this compact 1940s home to “put life where the sun is” was at the heart of this renovation. And designer Sarosh Mulla, director of Pac Studio, knew better than most that reading would be a big part of that life. As brother-in-law to one of the owners, he understands that this family of four are bookworms to the core; weaving literary moments into the everyday was a given. Landscape architect Claire O’Shaughnessy and her husband…

LOCATION YORTA YORTA COUNTRY / RUTHERGLEN / VIC • In the middle of Rutherglen in the Victorian goldfields and winemaking region is Quondong, the site of The Play Project, a paediatric therapy clinic set up by Kait and Marcus Cummins as an independent living skills program. Here, the garden plays a key role in supporting children with additional needs, offering them a safe space to connect with nature while developing essential life skills. Young people help grow the plants and build structures, turning the garden into a living, breathing testament to their hard work and achievement. It's not every day that a designer gets to create a garden that incorporates so many aspects of play, rest and learning for children and young adults. When landscape designer Kathleen Murphy received the…