University of Queensland provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Breeze blocks are having a moment in the sun. Having been painfully hip in the architecture of the 1950s and 60s, they ...

Australian designer Tom Fereday has developed a faceted cement breeze block that can be flipped over and combined in various ways to create angled surfaces. Sydney-based Fereday created the Omni ...

Before the proliferation of air conditioning, designers devised lots of clever ways to keep buildings cool: cupolas, external blinds and awnings, transom windows. But none were as useful and ...

Cinder blocks are everywhere. You see them on the exteriors of homes and commercial buildings, as barriers for landscapes, even on the side of the freeway as a security wall. But arguably the best ...

California’s Midcentury design legacy has an interesting way of sticking around. An example of the style’s persistent and evolving influence is receiving renewed design attention at some restaurants ...