It’s a hospital, not a gallery
Innovative, sure, but excellent? Perhaps not. The Australian Interior Design Awards announced the Royal Children’s Hospital was the winner of the 2012 Premier’s Award for Interior Design Excellence and Innovation. At the cost of $1 billion, and the work of over 100 architects, Billard Leece Partnership and Bates Smart designed the hospital to be aesthetically...
5 Apps for a Melburnian
It is without a doubt the age of the smartphone – those pocket-sized, portable computers that essentially run our day-to-day lives. It even seems hard to think of a time before their omnipresent existence. With this in mind, RiffRaff Science + Technology thought it would be timely to string together a little list of smartphone...
Farmers fighting for the environment
There is a common misconception is that modern farmers are producing the carbon dioxide that is emitted from their farms – key word being ‘producing’. Well for those of you who have been deceived, here is a quick natural science lesson: within the soil of the earth is roughly 2000 billion tonnes of carbon in...
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