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It's all happening at the Cubo House!

Located next to the Edinburgh Gardens (Fitzroy North), this project comprises alterations and additions to an existing double storey dwelling.

The small & dysfunctional rear portion of the existing house has been demolished & is being replaced with a new contemporary and sustainable three storey house (including ...

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A quirky story about design in the The Weekly Review

Everyone's an amateur environmentalist these days, but how many of us actually do much about it? Melbourne architects Peter Ho and Emma Young are helping lead the way in urban design, basing their whole business on sustainability.

PHOOEY Architects uses recycled materials where possible, incorporating the materials' stories into ...

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Emma Young talks about living in tune with nature in The Sunday Age

Emma Young, who, with PHOOEY Architects co-director Peter Ho, was involved with the Speed Date A Sustainable Designer event in Federation Square last month, says they try to focus on issues such as water collection, waste disposal, energy efficiency and selection of materials with every project.

"We are basically ...

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Speaking at Pecha Kucha Melbourne on 18th April

here studio is very excited to bring you their first volume of Pecha Kucha for 2012!

Are you serious? Well, are you? Is it possible we're taking things and ourselves a little too seriously these days?

The Comedy Festival hits Melbourne in April and they want to make ...

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Published in the 2012 Architecture Report

Speed Date a Sustainable Designer, 19th February in Melbourne

Are you renovating or building? Do you have plans & ideas you'd like to discuss with green architects or building designers?

A feature event of the Sustainable Living Festival in 2012, The Alternative Technology Association (ATA) would like to invite you to Speed Date A Sustainable Designer.

Speed ...

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Australia Day!

To celebrate Australia Day this year, PHOOEY Architects will be closed on Thursday 26th & Friday 27th January. We will re-open Monday 30th January. Urgent queries (which will be attended to daily) can be emailed to architects@phooey.com.au .

Gong Xi Fa Cai!

Happy Chinese New Year! May the year of the Dragon bring you unlimited vitality, roaring successes, energised challenges, happy family & great health!

Speaking at Lend Lease 21st & 22nd January around Melbourne

Lend Lease are running seminars as part of their Summer Festival. Peter Ho will show home owners how to get their house looking its best for sale & how to get the best value out of it.

When:

10am, Saturday 21st January
Lend Lease Atherstone
Sales & ...

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Celestial Season's Greetings from the whole team at PHOOEY Architects!

We're having a well deserved break from noon Friday 23rd December 2011 & will re-open Monday 16th January 2012. Urgent queries (which will be attended to daily) can be emailed to architects@phooey.com.au .

We hope you get that present you've been dreaming about all year & have a safe ...

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Speaking at The University of Queensland 24th November in Brisbane

For one evening, the Zelman Cowen building, also fondly known as 'the studio', will not only unveil the products of a long and fruitful year of study, but also exhibit the raw elements that furnish an architectural student's life at The University of Queensland.

Please allow us to share ...

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Auction bid for Peter Ho at Sing for your Supper, Creativity Australia Gala Fundraising Dinner, 17 November in Melbourne

The Patrons of Creativity Australia, Dame Elisabeth Murdoch AC, DBE, Lady Marigold Southey AC, Professor Allan Fels AO, Hugh Morgan AC, Emeritus Professor John Hay AC, and Founder, Tania de Jong AM are delighted to invite you to Sing for your Supper, Creativity Australia Gala Dinner.

Be entertained, uplifted ...

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THE PLAN interviews Peter Ho on Radio Adelaide

THE PLAN is a new design talk show on Radio Adelaide 101.5fm. The show will discuss all things architecture, environment & affect & open a dialogue on integrated design issues & practices in & around Adelaide. Weekly features will profile local designers, practices & thinkers from all corners of ...

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Published in the new book Habiter un Container?

Est la proposition d'un regard porte sur la dimension habitable des modules de transport maritime arrives en fin de vie. Ce point de vue est croise par des entretiens-temoignages et des realisations exemplaires a travers le monde.

L'ouvrage invite a la decouverte du potentiel de ces parallelepipedes metalliques, veritable ...

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Cubo House has started construction

Located next to the Edinburgh Gardens, this project includes alterations and additions to the existing double storey heritage-listed dwelling. The concept applies the surrealist technique Cubomania to catalogue, reuse & reinvent all the demolished building materials.

Demolition has commenced, materials are being salvaged, the building contractor is pumped & ...

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Peter Ho will be fundraising for McHappy Day at McDonalds in Newcomb on Saturday 12th November

In 2011, McHappy Day celebrates its 20th Anniversary as one of Australia's largest annual fundraising events. McHappy Day will once again be supported by a host of Australia's favourite celebrities who will be visiting McDonald's restaurants across the country to raise a record $3 million for Ronald McDonald House Charities.

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Parkhill Primary School has reached Practical Completion

Funded by Round 3 of the federal government's Building the Education Revolution for the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development. This project includes alterations and additions to Parkhill Primary School in Ashwood, Victoria. The design scheme is inspired by Victoria's majestic rivers including the Murray, Goulburn, Latrobe and Yarra. ...

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Speaking at PROCESS about Architecture & Media, 7th November in Melbourne

Who the hell do we think we are? And what about them, over there. Who do they think we are? Interesting isn't it? So we thought we'd take a closer look.

This month at PROCESS we look to architecture's media partners; print, television and multi-media, and hear from three ...

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Prahran House has just received a Town Planning Permit

This is a new double storey family dwelling on a corner block in a leafy Melbourne suburb. The main building fabric will be constructed from recycled shipping containers. Construction off-cuts and existing materials, such as hardwood studs and timber weatherboards will be re-used in a dignified assemblage to perform functional ...

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Stage One of the Mountain Goat Beer Hall has been completed

Stage One of the Mountain Goat Beer Hall has been completed. This includes alterations & additions to the existing bar. Cartons & other packaging with redundant & replaced branding have been re-used to celebrate the history of Mountain Goat Beer. When completed the premises will be surrounded by Mountains filled ...

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Speaking at The University of Adelaide Speaker Series, 2nd November in Adelaide

The University of Adelaide, School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design invites you to attend its bi monthly Speaker Series. The 2011 Speaker Series brings together practicing architects and landscape architects from interstate to discuss their work in terms of the ideas that run through it.


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Hawthorn House about to commence construction

This existing double storey house is an interwar Arts & Crafts bungalow featuring a single gable roof that disguises the upper floor within its dominant form. The upper level is only revealed by small dormer windows each side.

The house is located in an established residential area in Hawthorn ...

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Panel discussion for Q & A Architects = Better Buildings, Hobart Architecture Week, 24th October in Hobart

Stuart Tanner poses the question,'What is the value of the architect in the design and building process?' A panel of experts, from various disciplines, thrashes out the issues and you get the opportunity to ask the pertinent questions.

Panel includes:
Greg Barnes, The Mercury, MC
Peter Ho, PHOOEY ...

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Archi-Ninja interviews Peter Ho

AN: 1. Which of your projects has been the most rewarding and why?

PH: The Port Phillip EcoCentre on the corner of the St Kilda Botanic Gardens was our first completed project in private practice. We started to ask questions about what role architecture might play in the discourse ...

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Australian Design Review interviews Peter Ho

Design and architecture have hit the mainstream, with a flurry of new TV shows pitching experienced and amateur designers, stylists and renovators into the reality TV show format. Following the launch of Grand Designs Australia in late 2010, this year's new additions include The Block, Top Design and now Channel ...

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An entertaining opinion from Danny Katz in The Saturday Age

... In a confusing enough world already, I don't need doubles of things and that's why it's time for some culling. There's a TV show called The Renovators and a TV show called Top Design - same format, same feel, same unwatchability. One's got to go, AND IT'S TOP DESIGN, ...

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The PHOOEY Approach published in Indesign

Phooey is a word used to express disbelief or describe something as nonsense. While PHOOEY Architects feel the work they are doing is 'phooey', Peter Ho & Emma Young (P.H. + E.Y), Co-Directors of PHOOEY Architects, see the name reflecting their ability to laugh at themselves & have fun in ...

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Templestowe Reserve Sporting Pavilion published in Architectural Review Australia

From the carpark, the building's hulking form conveys a sense of grandeur far beyond its purpose, its weight anchoring it in the surrounding sea of asphalt & lawn. The steep sawtooth pitch of the roof gestures to the form of the 1970's suburb, while the 'Big V' references the chevron ...

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Exhibition in Düsseldorf, Germany 8th June - 4th September

The NRW-Forum Dusseldorf (Germany) invited renowned architects, designers, & artists from around the world to submit designs for container architecture. The response was overwhelming. Submissions included not only existing container buildings, but also new designs that were created specially for the exhibition. Two dozen of these designs have been reconstructed ...

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Peter Ho is a Judge on Network TEN's new show, THE RENOVATORS

Australia - power tools to the ready - safety glasses on - get ready to renovate! Network TEN & SHINE Australia join forces to create a groundbreaking renovation show, the scale of which has never been seen before on Australian television. We have scoured the country to find the very ...

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Congratulations to our Emma Young winner of the Westpac Bank Ruby Award

Announced on International Womens Day, 8th March 2011, Emma Young, Director of PHOOEY Architects has won the Westpac Bank Ruby Award for celebrating educated, connected & inspiring Australian women.

Exhibiting in The First Show at PinUp

PinUp is a new, independent architecture & design gallery, project & event space housed within one of Melbourne's most vibrant creative precincts. Firmly engaged with promoting local debate yet with an international outlook, PinUp is dedicated to exhibiting, communicating and promoting architecture and design in an accessible, responsive and inspirational ...

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On the magazine cover of Architecture Australia's celebration 100th volume issue

Walking into the Upcycling exhibition at the University of Melbourne's Wunderlich Gallery was a notable experience - the familiar room was clad, floor to column, with carpet tiles, on which were printed images of an impressive array of PHOOEY Architects' work. The exhibition is part of the Melbourne School of ...

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Congratulations to our Helen Duong winner of the AA Prize for Unbuilt Work

This engaging project explores an area of Melbourne that has not received a great deal of architectural attention, but which offers great possibilities. It takes the existing built environment & the communities that use it seriously, & builds a strategy for redevelopment on to & out of these found characteristics, ...

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Speaking at the University of Tasmania in Launceston on 21st February

The Archiforum: Inveresk Design Lecture Series of the School of Architecture & Design, University of Tasmania is an interdisciplinary forum which challenges the limits of architecture & design. Invited speakers include prominent international & national design academics & practitioners, as well as philosophers, visual artists, historians, & urbanists. Past speakers ...

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Speaking at the Australian Institute of Architects in Hobart on 22nd February

The Refuel Tasmania Interstate Speaker Series brings exceptional & inspiring architects from around the country for talks in Hobart & Launceston through out the year. Architects talk about their work & the philosophies & ideas that shape it. These events form part of the scope of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) ...

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Ashburton House published in Houses Magazine

The form of the new house is an extruded L shape, two storeys tall. The inside of the L is lined with windows that face a linear park & its canopy of trees to the south-east of the site. "The new house was designed around one long view," says Peter, ...

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PHOOEY Architects has appointed Jessie Cook as an Associate

Jessie's outstanding communication, management & design capabilities & her all round professionalism continue to influence & strengthen our team.

Review in the 100th issue landmark edition of Monument Magazine

Since first featuring in MONUMENT 87, PHOOEY Architects has very nearly shaken off its 'emerging' label. The small practice was recently recognised for its big achievements in Upcycling, a retrospective exhibition as part of the University of Melbourne's Architecture, Building & Planning Alumni Retrospective Series. MONUMENT revisits PHOOEY's unique approach, ...

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Speaking at Bike Fest Forum 27th November

Tomorrow's Bikes - New Directions

Around the world bicycle initiatives are taking off - from humanitarian causes such as the Bamboo Bike Project to cultural happenings like Tweed Rides & new sports like Bike Polo. Has the Melbourne bicycle revolution only just begun?

What can be done ...

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Bicycle Shed review in Architecture Australia

The Department of Transport with the Office of the Victorian Architect recently sought out an architect to rethink the Parkiteer so that it might encourage more riders to participate. The brief called for a new design, 'celebrating & inspiring' cycling as a viable model of transport. It would have an ...

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Speaking at Material Connection Symposium, RMIT University 25th October

Convened by the Design Research Institute at RMIT University, the Material Connection Symposium will bring together researchers, local industry, local government, practice & community groups, in order to address the main issues of Sustainability, Cross Collaboration between Local Government, Material Innovation & Fabrication. The issues may be ones that the ...

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Ashburton House review in The Age: Domain

Color is repeated cleverly throughout this house, the work of designers who put recycling & nature to the fore.

Referencing nature fits with the PHOOEY philosophy. "It's easy to pass [responsibility] on to someone else in the future [but] we deal with things as we get them," Ho says.

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Exhibition review by 'The Architects' RRR FM

Stuart Harrison [SH]: We were up at the Wunderlich Gallery ... which I just love saying ... the most Wunderlich show I've seen there so far.

Simon Knott [SK]: I was wondering a year or two ago whether PHOOEY would end up just being the sort of container kids ...

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Juror for the international design competition turnmeON 2010

TurnmeON 2010 is an open design competition, supported by Ozquest Adventures. The competition is seeking creative & informed solutions for the design of a system to deliver water that addresses current problems associated with water supply, quality & use in the rural regions of Nepal.

This competition is also ...

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First book published on the practice of PHOOEY Architects

Titled, PHOOEY Architects: UPCYCLING, this book catalogs the exhibition by the same name held as part of the ABP Alumni Retrospective Series located at the Wunderlich Gallery, Architecture Building, University of Melbourne.

It features twenty-two selected projects since the practice began in 2004 up to 2010.

The ...

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UPCYCLING exhibition review in The Age: The Arts

Zero waste is PHOOEY's ambition. That may sound earnest, but for Ho and his team of seven it doesn't mean not having fun. "Everything we do is about play," he says.

Excerpt from

Edgar, R 2010, 'Designers with attitude: making more out of less', The Age, The Arts, ...

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Exhibition at Wunderlich Gallery, University of Melbourne 3rd September - 1st October

ABP Alumni Retrospective Series Exhibition
PHOOEY Architects: UPCYCLING

This installation re-presents past works produced by PHOOEY Architects & develops a useful dialogue which will influence the processes for their future projects.

The second exhibition in our ABP Alumni Retrospective Series for 2010, profiles the practice & vision ...

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Speaking at REAL Lecture Series, Deakin University 7th September

THE DEFINITION OF GARBAGE

The REAL Lecture Series is an ongoing Deakin University, School of Architecture + Building public event. The series brings together leading architectural practitioners with the aim of exploring the diverse range of current architectural thought and practice.

Entry is Free - Refreshments provided post ...

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Speaking at Affirmative Architecture Symposium, RMIT 20th - 21st August

Affirmative Architecture is a two day symposium convened by Dr Martyn Hook of the Design Research Institute at RMIT University, Melbourne. The event seeks to define an emergent trend amongst young architects to re-engage with the ability of architecture to make life better.

The symposium draws together international & ...

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Published in Affordable Architecture

Excerpt from The Kaleidoscope:

As part of the brief was to create open plan spaces, the only enclosed rooms are two bedrooms, including the main bedroom, two ensuite bathrooms, a shared dressing area & laundry. The bathroom walls already existed so there was little point in re-positioning the plumbing. ...

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Speaking at From Sketch to Solid, RMIT, 30th July

This student curated lecture series convened by Elke Howard, RMIT Architecture Student SSCC, aims to expose the development of an architect's design process, from idea to built form, discussing how a project maintains its coherence & integrity through the development process.

The lecture will commence or conclude with drinks ...

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Published in Container Atlas: A Practical Guide to Container Architecture

Containers are modular, affordable, & internationally available. More & more often they are being used to build temporary structures such as pavilions, galleries & bars as well as sophisticated housing & office spaces. Container Atlas presents a wide range of container architecture projects along with an in-depth investigation into the ...

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Home published in The Sunday Age

This pair of Fitzroy North architects sought innovative ways to redesign and recycle their family home.
ARCHITECTS Peter Ho and wife Emma Young have a zero waste policy in their practice. This means nothing they use is wasted and they do their best to recycle or utilise leftover materials.

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Review of Extra/Ordinary: Australian Institute of Architects National Conference

PHOOEY's projects are loose, playful & full of ingenuity - a reflection of the practice's methodology, which demonstrates that sustainability does not need to be about reduction. At the conference, Ho summoned his modernist forefather, Mies van der Rohe, demanding answers: "Mies, is less really more?" When van der Rohe ...

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Published in Atlas: Architectures of the 21st Century

Australia & Pacific: Geographic isolation was not enough to prevent the arrival to Australia of international trends, whose influence was already very present in the 19th century. Despite the current cultural homogenization, the architecture of each province has managed to find its own expression, generating several schools whose common denominator ...

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Winner of Department of Transport Bicycle Parking Design Competition

I want to ride my bicycle ... to the train station. Train stations around Victoria will receive new bicycle facilities where 26 bicycles will be accomodated in open & secure enclosed shelters. Recently won in an invited design competition, the shelters are pre- fabricated components & assembled using all the ...

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Templestowe Reserve Sporting Pavilion completed

Steve Brennan, President of the Templestowe Football Club has called their new facilities the "Sydney Opera House of sporting pavilions". The project was completed in readiness for the first home game of the Templestowe Dockers. The 100 year history of the football & cricket club represented by different jumpers & ...

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Published in Melbourne Architecture

This is a tiny project with a tiny budget but it harbours a big idea & a great social ambition: the reuse of four shipping containers to create a children's play & activity centre for the City of Port Phillip that is full of spatial interest, fun spaces for kids ...

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Mayor's Award at the 10th City of Port Phillip Design & Development Awards

Skinner's Reserve in South Melbourne by PHOOEY Architects picked up the Mayor's Award for its architectural excellence in sustainability "from cradle to grave" & for its contribution in engaging with the local community.

Mayor Cr Frank O'Connor told the packed crowd of developers, builders, planners & architects Skinners Children's ...

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Published in Green Magazine

Designed & constructed by husband & wife team, Emma Young & Peter Ho from PHOOEY Architects, this small central powder room is a gem! Crafted from totally recycled materials it is a demonstration of thrifty ingenuity. Walls are clad in leftover pieces of plywood from earlier renovations to the house. ...

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Exhibition at Virserums Konsthall, Sweden 9th May - 19th September

Architecture is today facing challenges of a magnitude that modernism faced at the beginning of the twentieth century. The thinking human being sees the necessity in taking these challenges seriously. Globalisation offers new solutions, just as the Architecture of Necessity creates new possibilities. Architecture of Necessity will showcase at Virserum ...

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National Speaker at Extra/Ordinary: Australian Institute of Architects National Conference 22nd - 24th April in Sydney

There is an increasing demand for architects to adjust to new modes of operating: enforcing or stimulating collaborations with others, and demanding real action at the very tangible face of societal change. A bewildering acceleration in the sophistication of information systems and manufacturing processes has evolved specialisations - of processes, ...

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Speaking at Pecha Kucha 23rd April in Sydney

Pecha Kucha Night was devised in Tokyo in February 2003 as an event for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public. It has turned into a massive celebration, with events happening in hundreds of cities around the world, inspiring creatives worldwide. Drawing its name from the ...

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Parkhill Primary School commences construction

Funded by Round 3 of the federal government's Building the Education Revolution for the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development. This project includes alterations and additions to Parkhill Primary School in Ashwood, Victoria. The design scheme is inspired by Victoria's majestic rivers including the Murray, Goulburn, Latrobe and Yarra. ...

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Speaking at Space Furniture 23rd March in Sydney, 24th March in Brisbane & 25th March in Melbourne

The theme of More Space Talks in 2010, & beyond, focuses on designers in architecture, textiles, landscape, interiors, furniture, & jewellery, who are reinventing what they do & how they work - whether it is a new way of making things, or an old one refreshed, an artful approach to ...

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Peter Ho gives Monument Magazine a piece of his mind

Inside the mind of Peter Ho: PHOOEY Architects' Design Principal gives us an insight into what makes him tick. We asked him to spill his brain & he did ...

My work responds to questions like: Can waste be salvaged & become beautiful? Can our stuff find value beyond ...

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Award for 2009 AA Prize for Unbuilt Work

Producing architecture for government schools is difficult, despite the best intentions of all involved. Budgets are extremely tight, timing is short and government processes can be mystifying. In this highly constrained context PHOOEY has developed a scheme that insists that wit and ambition have a role to play in educational ...

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Is climate change unstoppable?

Melbourne University Alumni in Conversation: Olivia Davis asked author Tanya Ha, botanist Dr Brendan Wintle, architect Peter Ho & environmental consultant Arron Wood, how we can all create a sustainable future ...