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Now celebrating its fourth year, Talking Architecture & Design is Australia’s first B2B architecture podcast that regularly talks about a range of issues that affect Australia’s architects, building designers and built environment professionals. Run by Australia’s most popular architecture magazine, Architecture & Design, the Talking Architecture & Design podcast gives a regular bite-sized dose of what is important and sometimes what is just plain old interesting to anyone and everyone in the business of building design.
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Doug Southwell is an Architect and Director of Scott Carver who has witnessed the increasing demand for hospitality spaces and sensibility across multiple building typologies, including within the growth market of build to rent residential accommodation and commercial repositioning. Tina Fox is the head of Interior Design at Scott Carver with extensive experience in a variety of hospitality work cross the UK, Europe and Australia NZ from Casinos and cabaret to food and beverage venues. Together, they headed the Scott Carver team that refurbished the Sydney's iconic Theatre Royal.In this exclusive interview, they go through the process of modernising this decades old, Harry Seidler-designed entertainment venue.This podcast is brought to you in association with Stormtech proud sponsors of our 2023 Hospitality & Retail series of podcasts.
Rebecca Plumstead, dwp sector leader for seniors living, has 25 years of extensive design and project management experience gained across diverse project types. She has a deep understanding of the profound contribution that built form makes to our environment, particularly regarding seniors living, residential, education and community buildings.In this podcast, our 200th episode, Rebecca explains what it takes to designing modern aged care facilities, and what is the future of aged care and how this will impact both the design and wider communities.This Podcast was brought to you by Siniat, proud sponsors of our 2024 Aged & Healthcare series.
Katie Rigg-Smith is the Chief Strategy Officer for WPP in Australia and New Zealand. WPP uses the power of creativity to build better futures for people, planet, clients and communities.Katie is a keen student of human behaviour and a futurist. Katie delivers strategic expertise across WPP’s network of agencies in service of their clients. This includes an emphasis on how cultural, social, economic, and geographic trends influence behaviour, and in turn, how these behaviours will shape the future of marketing.She spoke with TAD exclusively in Hobart recently.
Royce Epstein is a seasoned professional with three decades of experience in commercial interior design and architecture, spanning a diverse range of roles, including interior designer, product designer and developer, and university lecturer and educator. Her passion lies in understanding the intricacies of materials: how they're made; how they're used; and most importantly, their impact on the planet. She has created a series of Continuing Education Units (CEUs) to share her lifelong learning of materials with the commercial architecture and design community. She recently spoke to us from chilly Philadelphia in the US about the latest trends in urban design and how they are being influenced by what she calls, the ‘Culture of Care’ in design.This podcast is brought to you in association with GH Commercial proud sponsors of our 2024 Commercial series of podcasts.
After a turbulent year which included fears around the company's future, Metricon’s new CEO Brad Duggan says the outlook is bright for Australia’s biggest home builder. He shares some of the key ingredients on how to inject some sanity back into Australia's troubled, yet vital housing sector.
Nazli Almasirad, National Architectural Manager at Siniat Australia has been with the business since 2010 and leads the company's architectural strategy nationwide with a keen eye for emerging trends and a deep understanding of market dynamics. Nazli is committed to sustainable practices, strategic product development and forward-thinking innovation to foster better ways of living in the construction industry.Patrick Jeannerat, Head of Carbon and Circularity with the consulting firm Perspektiv Australia, a small bunch of sustainability experts dedicating their work to finding a better way.As an engineer and leader of a small team of specialists, Patrick is on a mission to accelerate net positive and regenerative outcomes for organisations.Together, they explain how acoustics matter in aged care design and how choosing the right materials helps not only manage acoustics, but also sustainability and resilience outcomes as well.This Podcast was brought to you by Siniat, sponsors of our Aged & Healthcare series.
Designed by Wardle and engineered by Aurecon, the $650 million Australian Institute for Infectious Disease (AIID) project in Melbourne has a majority women-led team, with six out of seven members being women, including the three most senior roles. With International Women’s Day (IWD) coming up, we speak with AIID Executive Director, Rowan Maclean to offer Architecture & Design about the work her team is doing to use the economic influence of the project’s development to influence gender diversity.
SFA Australia and New Zealand are subsidiaries of the SFA group which is based in France.For more than 65 years, the companies of the SFA Group have been working to provide professional and private individuals with ever greater sanitary comfort in their daily lives. They offer them much more than technological know-how; they offer inventive, reliable, and easy-to-implement solutions. Nick Moore, National Business Development Manager for SFA Australia and Gregory Waters, Technical Manager for SFA Australia and New Zealand discuss the Saniflo range of solutions and delve into the evolving relationship between plumbing and architecture and how plumbing influences design.This podcast was brought to you by Saniflo.
The second part of our 2-part series with Tone Wheeler over why our cities and housing are breeding inequality.An in-depth discussion of why the extremely low density city of suburbia with single houses is no longer fit for purpose: not in any of the three measures of sustainability - they are not socially desirable, not environmentally safe and financially ruinous making us a most unequal society. This fascinating discussion covers the reason why housing, schools and education, workplaces and recreation all leading to inequality.
In this episode, we talk with Moddex Sales Director, Joe Rowland about using steel in the non-residential and civil/ infrastructure sectors.Rowland explains the sustainability and economic benefits with using Moddex no-weld, hot dip galvanized barrier systems in civil and urban infrastructure projects.This podcast is brought to you in association with Moddex, proud sponsors of our 2024 Sustainability series of podcasts.
Part 1 of our two-part talk with architect, author, educator and consultant Tone Wheeler who has an abiding interest in environmentally sustainable design (ESD). Tone is also a past chair of the AIA national environment committee & a past member of the sustainability committee. He has taught extensively over the past 30 years, he has been on the faculty of 3 universities, is a sustainability advocate and frequent speaker at architectural conferences and seminars. he has been a judge on ABC TV ‘the new inventors’.In this recently-recorded interview, he discusses how every step in an architect’s work is broken: from the university education, to finding honest clients who understand the architectural process and value, to Councils and their ridiculous requirements, to consultants, to builders, the building commissioner, certifiers, and the whole box and dice.
As joint winners of the the Lifetime achievement awards at this year’s Sustainability Awards, Dick Clarke, founder of Envirotecture and David Baggs CEO, Technical Director & Co-founder of Global Greentag have both provided leadership within the profession and industry for over 40 years by engaging during most of this time in sustainability educational, advocacy and facilitation of professional outcomes and design excellence. In this exclusive interview, they talk about whether how we do business is becoming harder or easier in terms of environmental accountability, what would do differently in terms of their roles and why, what would you like to see happen in terms of our carbon emissions moving forward and how do they think we could achieve this?
We speak with Padraig (Paddy) Healy, sustainability engineer and Director at Credwell Energy. Healy covers all ESD Certifications and provides Energy Modelling, Daylight Modelling, WSUD, Vapour Management (condensation), Embodied Carbon Modelling, Greenstar certification and more. This podcast is brought to you in association with AWS, proud sponsors of our 2024 Residential series of podcasts.
1Jean Graham is an architect, Founding Director of Winter Architecture, a collaborative architecture practice located in Fitzroy and Torquay in Victoria that has won quite a few awards in its relatively short existence. Jean is also the winner of the Emerging Architect of the Year at the 2018 Sustainability Awards.In this Shortcast, she talks about how designing for longevity is both cost-effective as well as being sustainable.
This Shortcast is with the current Mayor of Wollondilly Shire Council, the honourable Matt Gould. Located on the outskirts of greater Sydney, the south-west LGA is currently the subject of immense development, namely at the greenfields developments at Wilton and Appin. Here, Gould discusses the opening of Worklife Picton, a new co-working space in the Shire's heart, the current housing crisis and the need for infrastructure for the developments within his local area.Interview by Jarrod Reedie.
Judy-Lea Engel is a textile scientist and Product Developer for floor and carpet specialists at GH Commercial.She cuts through the jargon and explains the importance of good flooring design in both the general commercial and more specifically, the education sectors, and what are the key principles when designing flooring for student and teacher success.This podcast is brought to you in association with GH Commercial proud sponsors of our 2023 Commercial series of podcasts.
The Sydney Opera House is one of our nation’s most treasured cultural landmarks. With almost 11 million visitors per year, the Sydney Opera House illustrates how even the largest organisations can take creative approaches to energy and waste management to address the climate crisis.As environmental sustainability manager at the Sydney Opera House, Emma Bombonato helps determine the trajectory of the iconic institution’s sustainability program. The Opera House is a world-leader in sustainability. It was the first heritage building in Australia to achieve a 5-star green rating and achieved carbon neutrality five years ahead of schedule. Bombonato and her team are currently focussed on making the building and organisation climate positive.She talks exclusively to Jarrod Reedie about how sustainability is key to the Sydney Opera House's performance and ongoing status as one of the world's most iconic heritage and entertainment sites and what the ultimate goal of this sustainability focus is, now on the 50th anniversary of its completion.
Based in Clontarf, NSW, James Cooper has been implementing the principles of sustainable design for over 25 years and brings his knowledge of passive solar and climate conscious design to his client base primarily in Sydney, but also in regional VIC, NSW and QLD – providing high end design solutions with a built in focus on thermal performance maximisation.James has won many awards over the course of his career. He is a Multi-time National Award winner of Environmental and Energy Efficient Building Designs and Multi Time National Design Award for New Residential and Commercial Building Designs. Most recently in 2022, James won the National Design Award for Heritage Buildings/Adaptive reuse for Laureston House in Gladesville NSW.He talks with us on the differences between passive house, passive solar and passive design and also how and why location / orientation, façade materials, shading, and window/door glazing considerations affect house design.This podcast is brought to you in association with AWS, proud sponsors of our 2023 Sustainable series of podcasts.
Richard Hough has been a structural engineer with Arup for over 40 years, including periods as a Director in Arup’s London office, as Managing Principal of Arup’s California practice, and as Managing Principal of Arup New South Wales. He joined the Sydney office in 1970 during the final stages of design of the Sydney Opera House, then led the Arup team during the 2000’s assisting Richard Johnson and Utzon’s office on the Opera Theatre Renewal Project. On the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Sydney Opera House, Richard Hough talks exclusively about some of the lesser-known facts of building this global icon.
Jan Kwak is Managing Director of Australia and Asia at Hatch.com, an award- winning multidisciplinary leader in engineering, operational and development projects in the metals, energy and infrastructure industries. Jan oversees an estimated 1000 staff on more than 200 projects, and has managed every aspect of the design, construction, commissioning and operation of large-scale mines over 25 years. Jan has been a vocal advocate for building sustainable communities around mines. He explains how building such communities can improve the quality of life of mine workers and their families, as well as provide long-term economic benefits to the local area.
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