A major exhibition by Berlin-based Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson – Olafur Eliasson: Presence – has opened exclusively at Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA), where it occupies the entire ground floor and remains on display until 12 July 2026. Globally renowned for installations that challenge how we perceive ourselves and…
Building on their success of award winning apartments Parklife, Terrace House and Slate House, Austin Maynard Architects have a new multi-residential project coming soon to Thornbury. Renowned for their sustainable and community-focused design approach, Austin Maynard creates thoughtful architecture that balances creativity and practicality, embraces environmental responsibility, challenges convention to…
green magazine and V-ZUG invited Cam Hines from Southern Seagreens and chef Emily Salkheld to talk about and demonstrate the harvesting and cooking of seaweed at V-ZUG Studio Melbourne. Cam presented an engrossing overview of how three friends have grown a business on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula to propagate golden kelp…
Potter Museum of Art Announces Ambitious New Exhibition: A Velvet Ant, a Flower and a Bird The Potter Museum of Art has unveiled A velvet ant, a flower and a bird, an ambitious exhibition curated by internationally renowned curator Chus Martínez. Opening on 19 February and running until 6 June…
Join the UK’s Grand Designs presenter and Australia’s favourite architecture advocate when they reunite for intimate shows in architecturally significant venues After years of friendship and a shared obsession with architecture and design, Kevin McCloud and Tim Ross are taking their banter and big ideas on the road – and,…
Abbotsford Convent will present We Are Exploding, a major new exhibition by award-winning artist Emily Parsons-Lord, from 14 to 23 November 2025 in the Magdalen Laundry. Exploring air as both material and metaphor, We Are Exploding will invite audiences to experience the climate crisis through sight, sound and sensation. Across…
Slow Lane – part of the Nightjar Festival Series – invites audiences to slow down and rethink how we live, build and connect. Hosted by Tim Ross (The Australian Dream?), the event brings together Australia’s leading voices in housing, design, sustainability and community. Explore tiny houses, hear from architects and…
A record 34 buildings (33 homes and one commercial office) will welcome guests for scheduled tours during this year’s International Passivhaus Open Days (IPOD) running over 7-9th November. As the popularity for this global sustainable building standard grows – with applications for Passivhaus Certification in Australia growing by more than…
Heide Museum of Modern Art has announced Song of the Earth, a major exhibition of works by John Nixon (1949–2020), one of Australia’s most influential and experimental abstract artists. On view from 26 November 2025 to 9 March 2026, this extensive survey is the first to span Nixon’s fifty-year career….
The world’s biggest home energy and electric vehicle show, Everything Electric, is heading to Melbourne for the first time, November 14–16, 2025. Fresh from three record-breaking years in Sydney, with each show eclipsing the last in scale and attendance, Everything Electric is set to supercharge Melbourne with a three-day festival…
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