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Hammock Hill Nature Reserve

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• Brief Case Study
• by Ian Adams
• posted 15 Jul 2008

Hammock Hill Nature Reserve in the Wingecaribee Shire of NSW Southern Highlands provides a simple and original park setting that provides an educational experience as well as being unique to the locality.

 

 

 

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The Steel House (Modabode)

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• Brief Case Study
• by Tom Davies
• posted 24 Jul 2008

The Modabode steel house is an excellent example of prefabrication and delivery to site to reduce waste and construction time. The house can also be easily reconfigured providing a flexible design for changing needs and can be deconstructed at the end of life.

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• Design, Construction,
• Materials and Recycling,
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The Old Leura Dairy, Blue Mountains

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• Brief Case Study
• by Tom Davies
• posted 24 Jul 2008

The Old Leura dairy is constructed from in excess of 90% reclaimed materials. The owner builder Michael Hennessey describes the complex of buildings as a repository for materials. The materials have been sourced from local reclamation yards and from demolition sites throughout the Blue Mountains. Materials come from old bridges, hardwood weatherboards that are over 100 years old, and even old sheep shearing sheds.

This end view shows how bridging timbers, weatherboards, bricks, windows and roofing material have been reclaimed and reused.

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Walk Bendigo

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• Brief Case Study
• by Your Development Administrator
• posted 08 Oct 2008

The city centre of Bendigo is undergoing improvements in order to create more space for pedestrians, including a $900K funding investment from the Victorian State Government.  The aim of the project is to create a space to allow people to improve their wellbeing and to create a better balance between pedestrians and cars.

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• State Government, Local Government,
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Panorama

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• Brief Case Study
• by Your Development Administrator
• posted 08 Oct 2008

The Panorama estate in Glenfield, New South Wales is 10 minutes from Liverpool and includes a community clubhouse, tennis court, swimming pool and spa.  Prospective buyers can choose from over 30 different house designs to put on vacant land or a newly built house with completed courtyard.  The Panorama estate received the 2006 HIA CSR NSW Housing Award for Residential Lifestyle Development of the Year.

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• Medium (100-1000 lots),
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Kolding Commune, Denmark

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• Brief Case Study
• by Vanda Rounsefell
• posted 14 Jul 2008

Developer: Byfornyelsesselskabet Danmark Amba (Urban Renewal Company Denmark)?
Supported by: Building and Housing Council, Ministry of Housing
Client: Kolding Municipality, Building and Housing Council, Ministry of Housing, tenants (subsidised loans)
Plan - Design: Gruppen for By-og Landskabsplanlægning Aps (GBL)
Architect: Torben Gade
Cost: approx $US10m in 1993 dollars.
Engineer: A/S Samfundsteknik, Kolding

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Overdrevet Cohousing, Denmark

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• by Vanda Rounsefell
• posted 14 Jul 2008

Built 1980, Initiated 1981
Name of Development: Overdrevet (‘Overdrive’)
Architect: Arkitektgruppe ‘E’
Tenure: Private
Type of Development:

• Former farm on fringe of small rural town, housing starting to encroach
• Cohousing
• Many EcoVillage characteristics
• Energy self-sufficient

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• Place Making and Social Sustainability, Estate Design, Energy Management, Sustainablity Management,
• Small (<100 lots),
• Low Density,
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New Haven Pilot Project, LeFevre Peninsula, SA

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• by Vanda Rounsefell
• posted 14 Jul 2008

The late MultiFunction Polis was an unsuccessful Australian-Japanese plan to establish a ‘technopole’ – integrated with a world’s best practice urban development at Gillman SA.

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Voyager Park

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• Brief Case Study
• by Steve Thompson
• posted 16 Sep 2008

Voyager Park adjoins the retail and tourist hub in Huskisson on the NSW South Coast and provides a high quality example of innovation and quality of open space, whilst maintaining simple and highly accessible areas. 

 

 

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ING Bank Headquarters Amsterdam

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• Brief Case Study
• by beau Enkelaar
• posted 14 Oct 2009

ING Bank Headquarters, Amsterdam

 

 

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