How an award-winning architect became pit crew for a go-kart racer
“I sent him out a few times with one of his wheels not attached,” architect Jonathan Lake says of learning to become his son's pit crew.
Dyson's intelligent robot vacuum cleaner
After 16 years of perfecting its design, Dyson has finally joined the ranks of companies offering robot vacuum cleaners, saying it has solved the problem of cleaning properly with intelligent navigation.
Graphics extends boundaries beyond logos and letterheads
In the past, graphic design was closely aligned to an image on a page. Today, graphic design is extremely broad and can't be as easily pigeonholed.
The book that may surprise Edmund de Waal's many readers
First Marco Polo wrote of porcelain bowls of incomparable beauty. Now Edmund de Waal continues his intriguing porcelain pilgrimage.
What's an analyst report worth?
Wall Street banks may have finally hit on a way to pinpoint the value of analysts and squeeze more money from their research
No holding back when designing for yourself
What some leading Australian interior designers do with their own homes.
That '60s sunken feeling is back
Architects are harking back to the 1960s, using sunken spaces to give a sense of being cocooned.
Architecture job ads boom as housing market surges
Job ads in architecture and design are surging as the housing market booms, figures from recruitment site Seek show.
Myths and reality of communist architecture
We all have our stereotypes of communism, beaten into us from decades of cold war propaganda, writes Tom Dyckhoff.
The sustainable house – is it worth more?
Can 'sustainability' give a house a higher price? Not without accepted benchmarks of what 'sustainability' means. But that may be changing.
These empty-nester homes beat units
Scaling down from the family home often meant an apartment. But empty-nesters are increasingly turning elsewhere.
