An Award-Winning Home Hits The Perth Market
< 1 min
A combination of technology, sustainability and luxury – 42 Hobbs Avenue, Dalkeith, WA is an multi-award-winning home by Giorgi Exclusive Homes is an indulgent display in the sought after enclave of Dalkeith.
The combination of soaring ceiling heights, glass walls and the use of architectural voids sees the residence create a capacious, light filled home spread across an 1103sqm plot.
The 5-bedroom, 3-bathroom, 4-car garage home boasts Carrara marble tiling underfoot that is heated by a cutting edge under-floor hydro cooling and heating system throughout.
The main living area – which sees the lounge, dining – is fitted with a gas fireplace amd extends to one of the three kitchens in the home fitted with Gaggenau appliances and a Corian benchtop, supplemented by a scullery.
Entertaining is not limited to the indoor spaces, with the living area spilling outdoors to the alfresco lounging area replete with outdoor kitchenette, pizza oven and infinity pool. Elsewhere, the residence boasts an expansive wine cellar, including temperature-controlled cellaring.
The main bedroom sees an oversized ensuite, complete with marble adornments along with an elongated walk-in robe. The other bathrooms throughout the residence match with marble tiling.
Also upstairs is a retreat and expansive study area which is accessible via the internal lift or the stairs.
Throughout the home, a number of sustainability measures including underground rainwater tanks and recycled grey water as well as clever features including remote energy management and a smart home system that controls the intercom, lighting and shutters.
Sat in the enviable suburb of Dalkeith it offers the best of Perth’s village life, the residence is nearby Perth Flying Squadron Yacht Club and the Swan River.
The listing is with Shengxi Li from Honsun Realty (+61 487 380 423). Asking price; $7m.
Consumers are going to gravitate toward applications powered by the buzzy new technology, analyst Michael Wolf predicts
Chris Dixon, a partner who led the charge, says he has a ‘very long-term horizon’
A new AI-driven account by leading landscape architect Jon Hazelwood pushes the boundaries on the role of ‘complex nature’ in the future of our cities
2 min
Drifts of ground cover plants and wildflowers along the steps of the Sydney Opera House, traffic obscured by meadow-like planting and kangaroos pausing on city streets.
This is the way our cities could be, as imagined by landscape architect Jon Hazelwood, principal at multi-disciplinary architectural firm Hassell. He has been exploring the possibilities of rewilding urban spaces using AI for his Instagram account, Naturopolis_ai with visually arresting outcomes.
“It took me a few weeks to get interesting results,” he said. “I really like the ephemeral nature of the images — you will never see it again and none of those plants are real.
“The AI engine makes an approximation of a grevillea.”
Hazelwood chose some of the most iconic locations in Australia, including the Sydney Opera House and the Harbour Bridge, as well as international cities such as Paris and London, to demonstrate the impact of untamed green spaces on streetscapes, plazas and public space.
He said he hopes to provoke a conversation about the artificial separation between our cities and the broader environment, exploring ways to break down the barriers and promote biodiversity.
“A lot of the planning (for public spaces) is very limited,” Hazelwood said. “There are 110,000 species of plants in Australia and we probably use about 12 in our (public) planting schemes.
“Often it’s for practical reasons because they’re tough and drought tolerant — but it’s not the whole story.”
Hazelwood pointed to the work of UK landscape architect Prof Nigel Dunnett, who has championed wild garden design in urban spaces. He has drawn interest in recent years for his work transforming the brutalist apartment block at the Barbican in London into a meadow-like environment with diverse plantings of grasses and perennials.
Hazelwood said it is this kind of ‘complex nature’ that is required for cities to thrive into the future, but it can be hard to convince planners and developers of the benefits.
“We have been doing a lot of work on how we get complex nature because complexity of species drives biodiversity,” he said.
“But when we try to propose the space the questions are: how are we going to maintain it? Where is the lawn?
“A lot of our work is demonstrating you can get those things and still provide a complex environment.”
At the moment, Hassell together with the University of Melbourne is trialling options at the Hills Showground Metro Station in Sydney, where the remaining ground level planting has been replaced with more than 100 different species of plants and flowers to encourage diversity without the need for regular maintenance. But more needs to be done, Hazelwood said.
“It needs bottom-up change,” he said. ““There is work being done at government level around nature positive cities, but equally there needs to be changes in the range of plants that nurseries grow, and in the way our city landscapes are maintained and managed.”
And there’s no AI option for that.
Consumers are going to gravitate toward applications powered by the buzzy new technology, analyst Michael Wolf predicts
Chris Dixon, a partner who led the charge, says he has a ‘very long-term horizon’
