1/2/11,’Groundswell’, Landscape Architecture Australia
1.02.2011| Mixed-use development Tooronga Village in Glen Iris, Victoria has been masterplanned by Plus Architecture with landscape architecture by Murphy Design Group.
The Gardiner and Heywood apartment buildings have direct access to Gardiner Creek, private gardens and an open-air piazza, restaurants and village-style food market. Both apartment buildings rise out of the rooftop garden which supports a mini eco-system complete with trees and a pond that captures both irrigation and water for toilet flushing. |
 
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15/11/10,’Big dream – small package’, AR
15.11.2010| The Density Debate
‘While there appears to be consensus among most urban planning experts that our cities must become much denser if they are to be sustainable, the issue remains a sore point for many in the community. Not only this, but even among its supporters, there remains a strong divergence of opinion as to how best to achieve greater density, and in what forms. Craig Yelland on Plus Architecture presents his vision for the future of the Australian city. Big dream – small package Craig believes compact, well-designed apartments offer a solution to the housing affordability crisis afflicting our cities – but that government regulation is holding back innovation.‘
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Greville St development featured in The Age-Domain
13.11.2010| Greville St developers have come to the party with quiet apartments in a hot location.
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15/9/10 ‘…and it’s a WRAP’, The Age
17.09.2010| ‘WRAP, is to be built at 133-139 City Rd. The spire, and Beijing’s Bird Nest Stadium, have inspired the tower design, in which a series of rectangular segments wrap around the building to create a vertical mesh pattern, culminating in a bold lantern-style beacon on the top of the building.
Ian Briggs from Plus Architecture said the beacon had been inspired by the concept of a Japanese lantern, which provides a beacon for people to find their way home’. |
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4-5/09/10 ‘Small fixes equal big savings’, The Weekend Australian Financial Review
10.09.2010| ‘Craig Yelland, director of Plus Architecture, says there are many examples of companies retrofitting older office buildings and making huge savings with measures such as installing rainwater tanks and filling them when sprinkler systems are tested…”when it comes to uniformity over an entire building changing, say the heating system, that’s where it becomes more difficult.” But he’s quick to point out that apartments use less energy than houses.’ |
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