Accelerating Together: IWD 2025
On this International Women’s Day, Hillam Architects proudly recognises the significant contribution of the talented women within our team. We are especially proud to highlight that a remarkable percentage of our workforce is made up of female architects and interior architects, with many of them holding Project Lead positions or higher. This is a testament […]
Designed for Life
In 2023, the Australian Government developed and published the National Aged Care Design Principles and Guidelines on accessible and dementia-friendly design for residential aged care. Hillam Architects welcomed the opportunity to participate in the Reimagining Where We Live design competition, using the four design principles for a hypothetical facility in a regional town centre. The […]
A Year in Review
2024 has been a big year for Hillam Architects, with several projects commencing construction and hitting important milestones along the way. A huge thankyou to our staff, our clients, the builders and experts that work with us to deliver great outcomes. We’ll be back on January 6, 2025 to do it all again. Have a […]
Have Your Say on our Sorrento Proposal
Hillam Architects, in conjunction with Locus Property, is pleased to share that the proposed development at 3 Delos Way, Sorrento is now open for public consultation. We invite you to take the time to review the submission and make comment on the development by following the link: Have Your Say – 3 Delos Way As the […]
Hillam Architects response to COVID-19
Given the circumstances we are all currently facing with the onset of COVID-19 in Australia and our workplaces, we thought it appropriate to communicate current and temporary workplace changes that have been implemented at Hillam Architects. The health and well-being of our team and the wider community is of the highest importance to us. In […]
Future Timber
20th century architectural construction systems have largely been defined by two materials, concrete and steel, beginning with the 1890 Rand McNally Building in Chicago (steel) and the 1903 The Ingalls Building in Cincinnati, Ohio (concrete). The ubiquity of these materials for larger scale structural constructions globally is undisputed, however since the 1990s there have been […]
Smart Cities – the good, the bad and the risky
Digitisation, Artificial intelligence, real-time data and the Internet of Things are accelerating exponentially and they’re reshaping our behaviour, our lifestyle and our society. Are Smart Cities the way we want our cities to be in the future? There are a lot of debates surrounding the pros and cons of Smart Cities. What should Architects do […]
Choose Local
Ask people where they buy their daily milk and bread and chances are, they would respond by saying the grocery store down the road. You wouldn’t get the bare necessities anywhere else, would you? We take them for granted in the same way we do the supermarket five minutes down the road. These daily essentials […]
Art or Architecture?
The question of whether architecture is art has been debated throughout history and is still a polarising subject today. With ‘art’ loosely defined as ‘the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or power’, […]
“The Minimalist”
The great irony of minimalism. Many people avoid the term minimalism, due to its subjective and cultural boundaries. Cliché definitions aside, for the purpose of this blog post, feel free to re-label your version of simplification to any “-ism” you prefer. As an Interior Designer I believe that curation is in the specification of materials […]