Editor’s Letter

“Design can be a powerful tool for good”, writes architect Mariam Kamara, who also says she is guided by the belief that “we have the power to elevate, dignify, and provide a better quality of life simply through the use of better design”.

And so we took this same philosophy and applied it to the redesign of our magazine. Now you may notice that no longer are we called ‘Infolink’- a name that harks back to the old days of this magazine, but rather we have realigned ourselves firmly to the future and also with our daily newsletter and are now known as ‘Architecture & Design’ – a name that more honestly reflects why we are Australia’s premier built enevironment publication.

Added to our ‘new’ name, is our tagline - Projects. Products. People. which more better reflects our content.

This will become patently obvious when you open this first redesigned issue, with content that is much more indepth and more uniquely focussed than ever before.

In fact, we’ve managed to keep the best parts of the old magazine and added to it new ideas such as Essays, Sustainability Awards and the Sections 2 feature which for the first time in our history will enable us to showcase the stunning work of the many talented architecture and design students out there.

So moving forward, this first issue of Architecture & Design is a portent to the many other exciting things that we will announce this year.

As Kamara says, “We have to understand and respect where people are coming from and why they aspire to the things they aspire to.”

We hope that in at least some way, our new-look magazine will have come close to achieving those admirable goals.