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Bauhaus To Outhouse!

Cox Architects — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 05:02:55 +0000

Cox Architects opposes the destruction of the heritage listed Karl Langer Gardens, Spring Hill, Brisbane.

The Brisbane City Council and the State Department of Environment and Heritage have completely failed in their duty of care to protect the legacy of the design of the MRD building and gardens designed by Carl Langer and built in the 1960s. The history of this building and the contribution of the gardens in the context of the overall design has been ignored by the planning authorities because a development approval has been granted which will destroy these gardens and impact severely on the amenity and setting of the MRD building (now named “The Johnson”).

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Steel in bushfires webinar

Cox Architects — Thu, 18 Feb 2021 06:30:29 +0000

The presenter David Cox is the Managing Director of Cox Architects, a Brisbane based firm which has experience in designing different types of fire-resistant buildings for many years. David’s interest in designing appropriate structures in bushfire areas began in the 1980’s when he carried out research work on mainly industrial and commercial buildings. Since then his focus has widened to include residential structures. Drawing on his local and overseas design experience, David is passionate about designing highly fire resistant structures to minimise the risk of failure.

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Bushfire resilient building design

Cox Architects — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 22:39:44 +0000

Australia is no stranger to bushfires. However, the summer of 2019-2020 proved to be unprecedented in many ways. By mid-February 2020, thousands of bushfires across the country had claimed the lives of over 30 people and a billion animals, and burnt around 20 million hectares of land.

With approximately 3,000 homes and several thousand other buildings destroyed across the country, their rebuilding will inevitably require careful and considered bushfire design solutions, such as that developed by Cox Architects.

View the full article here (PDF).
Source: https://www.steel.org.au/resources/elibrary/resource-items/bushfire-resilient-building-design/
Photo credit: Jana Koelmel

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Bushfires – Assets and liabilities

Cox Architects — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 06:24:57 +0000

The recent bushfires extended from September last year until the end of March. We were therefore under attack for half a year. It exposed many weaknesses in our built environment and the stewardship of our natural resources. We were found exposed because of directionless development and the vulnerability of our built assets to both wildfires and bushfires.

Our continued practice of delivering buildings and infrastructure which are not suited to and resistant to our harsh environmental conditions is or could be deemed to be ‘not fit for purpose’.

For many years, our politicians and other leaders have focussed on seeing the physical effects of building ‘something’. Progress was evidenced by city skylines covered with cranes and half-built skyscrapers. On the urban fringe, progress was evidenced by covering vast tracts of land with the archetypal Australian built houses extending suburbia as far as the eye could see. But what if neither of these building forms are ‘fit for purpose’ or suitable for our harsh environment?

View the full article here (PDF).
Source: https://sourceable.net/bushfires-assets-and-liabilities/

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Bushfires – Take what is valuable

Cox Architects — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 23:57:42 +0000

The fire we were escaping from was the Applethorpe fire in Queensland which started on the 6th September 2019. We were some of the first groups to be evacuated in the 2019 fires. Since then many thousands of people in most states have been evacuated to escape the bush fires/wildfires currently spreading over Australia.

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Source: https://sourceable.net/bushfires-take-what-is-valuable/

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Bushfires – What’s in a name?

Cox Architects — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 07:22:40 +0000

One reason for Australia’s procrastination on the adoption of new technology to help prepare us for the effects of our harsh environment is because most believe nothing can be done to protect us from bush fires. The reality, however, is that this is simply not correct and doing nothing is a symptom Australia can ill afford at these times or in the future.

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Source: https://sourceable.net/bushfires-whats-in-a-name/

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Mini city design Guangzhou China

Cox Architects — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 01:12:33 +0000

One of our recent high-rise apartment complex projects, which included urban planning, architecture and technical innovation has been published. View the article here.

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Sustainability Awards SA Live Seminar Speakers

Cox Architects — Thu, 26 Oct 2017 01:04:38 +0000

Cox Architects Managing Director D. Cox with other speakers of the 2017 Sustainability Live Seminar.

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High Rise Fire Safety in Smart Urban Planning

Cox Architects — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 02:55:29 +0000

This fire evaculation case study discusses the after-effect and possible advances in high rise fire safety. Urban planners, lawmakers and architects should be constantly questioning the connection between building and nearby buildings, and can’t afford to underestimate the importance of adequate access for fire trucks and other emergency vehicles to navigate around buildings and provide egress solutions for firefighters, residents, visitors and staff alike.

View the article here.
Source: https://sourceable.net/can-smart-urban-planning-improve-the-fire-safety-of-high-rise-buildings/

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Sustainability Awards Urban Design Finalists

Cox Architects — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 01:35:31 +0000

We’re proud to announce that our ‘Ring of Brodgar‘ entry in the 2017 Sustainability Awards has been announced as a finalist in the ‘Infolink Building Product News’.

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