Timber specialists Feast Watson has partnered with four renowned Australian designers – Steve Cordony, Sarah Ellison, Natalie Turnbull and Nat Wheeler and Kristy Sadlier of norsu Interiors – to raise money for Australian charities through its annual Re-Love Project. Re-Love by Feast Watson is the brand’s premiere collaborative charity campaign,…

DESIGN Canberra is giving design-lovers the chance to have their own piece of contemporary Canberra design with the festival’s second annual design auction at the festival opening party. Selected artists and featured works have been announced and bidding is now open. Limited edition and one-off pieces from Canberra’s leading designers…

Emerging from the ground, tree trunks, branches and walls, living sculptures will offer a window into the imagination. From Nature will showcase living sculptures and organic land artwork, transforming parkland into an outdoor open-air gallery at Gasworks Arts Park from Saturday 3 November until Sunday 11 November. The only exhibition…

The group behind the Caulfield to Dandenong level crossing removal project has won the Built Environment category in this year’s Premier’s Sustainability Awards.    Lendlease, CPB Contractors, WSP, Aurecon, Level Crossing Removal Authority and Metro Trains Melbourne have transformed a previous brownfield rail corridor into 22.5 hectares of new linear…

Melbourne’s City of Casey’s spectacular new entertainment precinct, Bunjil Place, added the Grand Prix Award at the Australian Timber Design Awards (ATDA) to its impressive list of achievements. The award was presented at the 19th ATDA dinner held at the Pyrmont Star. Other winners on the night included Jackson Teece…

The Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) has announced the winners of the 2018 National Landscape Architecture Awards. The awards recognised 38 winners over 14 categories, celebrating leading projects of all sizes across Australia’s regional and metropolitan areas.  The annual awards program acknowledges how landscape architects are helping to shape…

Melbourne design practice Hecker Guthrie has been awarded the prestigious Rigg Design Prize, the highest accolade for Australian contemporary design. The $30 000 triennial prize was announced at the opening of the National Gallery of Victoria’s Rigg Design Prize 2018 exhibition, which features bespoke, purpose-built interior rooms by ten shortlisted…

The ExLab: Experimental Furniture Exhibition showcases innovative and experimental furniture pieces designed and made by graduate students at the Melbourne School of Design, in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne. This year, the design brief challenged students to design a small furniture piece using…