Coming back to the question above, as most readers here would be aware of, one of the main focus points in our work is Sustainability, and the question of how we can help create a world that is still worth living for generations to come. All our projects feature sustainable elements as much as possible, and these include various ecological sustainable design systems (ESD), both passive and active. We incorporate these sytems into our designs and base architectural ideas on them.

Having moved from Northcote to North Fitzroy a couple of months ago, Paul Gardiner Architects now call the City of Yarra their home. So having been nominated and shortlisted for this year’s Yarra Sustainability Awards, makes us particularly happy, and we are proud to be part of a lively and forward thinking community. The project that will feature in the Awards exhibition is our “Upside-Down Living”, a sustainable and contemporary refurbishment/extension project that we have completed for a fantastic forward-thinking client in Richmond last year. Tonight, the exhibition will be opened with the “Yarra Community Celebration and Awards Night”, an event that is a local celebration of the World Environment Day and Australia’s participation in same. Wanna be part of it? Give us a call and we’ll RSVP for you. It’s on tonight, Tuesday 8 June in the Fitzroy Town Hall. The evening will include a presentation of the Yarra Sustainability Awards 2010 winners and showcase the Yarra community’s outstanding environmental projects, as well as the latest in environmentally sustainable design.

So let’s celebrate World Environment Day, together with the City of Yarra and the country of Rwanda, and if each of us contributes a special idea or donation or action towards the environment this week, then I think that would be the best celebration we can have.