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  • Chit chat worth listening to

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Senior Designer Anya recounts her Pecha Kucha 24 experience

  • Design considerations

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    I chose this TED Talk to share with the Brio Group team this morning as I liked how Thomas Heatherwick’s London Architect firm considered their designs in a holistic approach. Not only did they consider the impact their designs have on the existing natural and built environment, but they also considered how it affects the…

  • The Pixel building proves to be Australia’s greenest building

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Melbourne’s new Pixel building, the first carbon neutral office building in Australia, has achieved the highest Green Star score ever awarded by the Green Building Council of Australia. Pixel achieved a perfect score of 100 points under the Green Star rating system for building design, whereas 75 points is the benchmark for 6 Star Green…

  • Turning torso building proves sky-high twists

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    One of the world’s most recognisable skyscrapers, Turning Torso is a building in Malmo, Sweden, designed by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava. The 190 metre high tower’s design is based on a sculpture by Calatrava called Twisting Torso, which is a white marble piece based on the form of a twisting human being. After a…

  • Australian Art Deco Architecture

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

                      Think about art deco architecture and buildings like Manhattan’s Chrysler Building or The Rockefeller Center usually spring to mind. It’s unlikely that the strip of shops including Myer and David Leees in Bourke Street, Melbourne, or Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) will be at the…

  • Grand Designs – another look

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Our old mate Kevin McLoud is back revisiting his old mates from the successful TV series, Grand Designs, to see how they are getting on after living in their dream homes for a few years. I caught the episode that revisited the couple of architects who decided to build next to the railway line in…

  • Green Roofs

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

      Having attended the always inspiring Pecha Kucha night at the Brisbane Powerhouse, I was intrigued by landscape architect, Sidonie Carpenter’s introduction to the concept of ‘green roofs.’  As the presentation time was limited, I was compelled to research the topic further and this is what I discovered… Green roofs are a phenomenon that has taken…