WAX featured in Poolside Showcase Magazine

See the current Poolside Showcase Magazine, May 2009 Edition 11 on pages 144-146 for a contemporary pool in Kensington Gardens which WAX designed in conjunction with Quantum Pools.

Swale Garden in Beaumont

The client has recently completed construction of a new Energy Architecture home and required an environmentally considerate garden to compliment the philosophy of the built form.

WAX has designed a garden of mass planted indigenous and native Australian plantings to increase biodiversity and reduce water consumption. A series of swales and detention basins have been constructed to redirect storm water and retain up to 90% of the ground water run off, lined with sedges and rushes which also assist in filtering any overflows before entering the water table.

A large productive area of raised vegetable gardens and fruit trees (watered by a grey water system) assists in their sustainability with waste reduction through a compost system.

The Rundle Project

WAX Design in collaboratrion with SPUD, Tanya Court and Naomi Horridge have been working with Adelaide City on an exciting new approach to the planning and implementation of public art within Rundle Street. The Rundle Project is based on the belief that the best artworks will emerge when artists and the artistic process is strongly supported Council.

The Rundle Project document in a graphic form delivers a typological public art framework for the street that clearly articulates a range of opportunities in both content, form and place. Six types of art are proposed each responding to the unique qualities of Rundle Street.

[1] Intervene (artisitcally changing the fabric of the Rundle Street)
[2] Engagement (performance and public interaction)
[3] Objects of Design (creation of high quality street furniture)
[4] Canvas (the Rundle Street as an outdoor gallery)
[5] Illuminate (innovative lighting response)
[6] Fusion (collaboration of artists and designer to create new outcomes)