Celebrate The Season As They Do In Ireland

More used to very cold weather and even occasional snow at Christmas time, members, friends and supporters of the Australian Irish Welfare Bureau and Resource Centre (Illawarra) will turn their thoughts next month to Christmases past.

Space Envelopers

An inside-out approach has given these architects the edge. Brian Donovan and Timothy Hill are the architects' architects, deemed by their colleagues to have designed the two best Australian houses of the past 25 years. In a survey of 1000 industry professionals by the magazine Architectural Review their remarkable C House, completed nearly a decade ago, was top and their D House came next. Both are in Brisbane.

Home Among The Gum Trees

The outdoors is big at Tenterfield, writes Katherine Townsend. BURNSIDE HEIGHTS Tenterfield, 2 Tenterfield Drive, via Taylors Road $124,000-$139,000 (land only) Private sale Agent VicUrban, 131 852 Melway 13 B8

Winds Of Change Are Gathering Power

Dominique La Fontaine is chief executive of Auswind, the Australian Wind Energy Association.

Gold Within Grasp And Gasp

The medical support team for Australian athletes at next year's Beijing Olympics is well out of the blocks, writes John Huxley.

A New Adventure In The Emerald City

ONE year ago Darcey Bussell called Sydney her "dream city, especially now that I have children". In a travel feature naming celebrities' favourite cities, Bussell said she loved the opportunity to spend more time outdoors and being able to "go to the beach whenever you like".