Ceramicist Mali Taylor traces her love of ‘getting her hands dirty’ back to her childhood in northern New South Wales. Although she’s now based in Melbourne after moving here to study a Bachelor of Fine Arts at RMIT in 2016, the prolific maker says her creative journey started at a small Steiner school in Wollumbin, NSW.

Mali’s delicately coiled creations range from sculptural vases, treasure plates, planter pots to earthy kitchenware – all ‘undoubtedly influenced’ from her younger days immersed in nature. Read on for more about her thoughtful practice.

Today we bring you our first garden feature from South Australia – an exceptional, functional ecosystem as well as a public sanctuary!

Taking out the 2017 Sustainability Award for Landscape and Urban Design, the 2.5-hectare Adelaide Botanic Gardens Wetland has been designed by Taylor Cullity Lethlean.

The landscape architecture firm’s Director, Damian Schultz, takes us through this wonderful project, through which they’ve sought to highlight the poetry and processes of the natural world.

Any good architect will tell you their work is site and client responsive, but that’s clearly the case when it comes to MRTN Architects. Look through this practice’s completed houses and you’ll find no two projects look the same – the mark of a truly contextual designer.

The practice’s latest project is a 1977 house in Kyneton, Victoria, featuring a new elevated, sculptural extension. Not only is this addition visually exciting, it sits comfortably within the existing garden, and supports the clients’ desire to age in place.

On a long, narrow street in Prahran, you might walk past this white-shingled cottage and think it was a modest new home. But behind this facade lies an unexpected gem – Garden House by Austin Maynard Architects –  a high-tech home that is completely self-powered.

In fact, this clever, contemporary home pushes far more sustainable energy back into the shared energy grid than it uses!