When: Thursday 31st May - Sunday 3rd June, 2012Where: Darling Harbour Exhibition Centre, Sydney Want free tickets to the HIA Sydney Home Show?Just sign up for the BUILD newsletter. The first 50 people to sign up get a free pair of tickets (valued at $18 a piece on the door). Couldn\'t be simpler.Even if you\'re not in the first 50, we\'ll still send you a special ...

 NOTE: All of the free tickets are gone! Big thanks to those who signed up, we\'ll be in touch in the next day or two to get your postal details. If you\'ve missed the boat, don\'t despair - we\'re still offering a 1/2 price coupon code to anyone who subscribes to the newsletter before Monday 23rd April.Thanks again, and see you at the ...

Planning your home designs or renovations should be a bit fearful and overwhelming. Even if you\'re entrusting a designer or an architect with most of the hard decisions, the concept\'s still down to what suits you best. If you\'re not chewing your nails to a bloody stump when you\'re considering what you want, it\'s possibly a sign that you need to dust off your brain and think much ...

We all love new technology - and what a revolution it's caused in our homes over the last 15 or 20 years. I can imagine a few of you are looking around your living rooms and scratching your heads... it's hard to blame you if you haven't really noticed. Unless you've just built a shiny, elaborately wired wunderhaus the changes are likely to be subtle, and are probably things you've already ...

  The 2011 Australian National Architecture Awards winners were announced today, and as you'd expect they include some jaw-dropping houses from across Australia. Obviously there's volumes to be said about the materials and designs that have been used for each of these ridiculously good looking homes, but pictures will always speak louder than words...   The Robin Boyd Award for ...

Some ominous legislation\'s being digested through the NSW parliament at the moment, and if you\'re planning on building a home in NSW it\'s something you really need to know about - because the changes it proposes are likely to cause a lot of people serious grief and heartache. The Home Building Amendment Act 2011 is ostensibly designed to tickle a bit of life into the construction industry, ...

NOTE: THIS PROMOTION IS NOW CLOSED! THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO ENTERED, AND CONGRATULATIONS TO THOSE WHO RECEIVED TICKETS.  WIN one of 10 double passes (valued at $57) to see Kevin McCloud, Peter Maddison and a huge range of cutting-edge building ideas at Grand Designs Australia Live at the Sydney Convention Centre, Oct 21-23.   HOW TO ENTER All you have to do to enter is ...

After many months of tweaking, polishing and refinement, we’re happy to say that we’ve finally unleashed our amazing new BUILD Placebook blogging platform. What does this mean for BUILD readers? Great question, glad you asked… What\'s in store  We’ll have guest bloggers contributing from now on – people with years of expert practical experience, Australian industry insiders, ...