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Architecture competitions come in a range of guises.

Retail stores consume. They consume products and services, energy, materials, water and lots of money.

Ethics and design go hand in hand. As a way of thinking design is about what we value and how we express those values .

Much has been made about sustainable architecture in the last few years, but how do you determine what is ‘green’.

Most of us spend 90 percent of our lives indoors, with more time spent at work than at home.

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The ubiquitous Queenslander verandah morphs into flexible indoor–outdoor classrooms in this new Brisbane school by Archibett.

In her winning essay Gillian Hatch proposes that swimming pool aquaculture might yield a sustainable solution for the suburbs.

The Australian dream of home ownership has not traditionally embraced prefabricated housing, but could the move toward sustainability change that?