Australia’s premier open building event Sydney Open returns for its 12th year on Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 November, unlocking the doors to some of the city’s most historic and architecturally inspiring buildings usually off limits to the general public.  Presented by Sydney Living Museums, Sydney Open offers visitors a behind-the-scenes look at some…

Sustain: The Australian Food Network is hosting the Urban Agriculture Forum, 20 & 21 November, at the University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus. Join leading practitioners and policy-makers from across the urban and periurban food landscape to build a shared understanding of what urban agriculture is, and the benefits and opportunities it can offer. Urban…

Launching on November 4, JamFactory’s first ever Sydney pop-up will present a range of beautifully designed homewares produced in Adelaide by skilled artisans in ceramics, glass, timber and metal. Featuring glassware by Brenden Scott French, Kristel Britcher, Clare Belfrage and Andrew Baldwin, ceramics by Susan Frost, Damon Moon and Jane…

MPavilion has unveiled the next wave of free cultural events to be presented in November and December 2016 under the handmade pavilion designed by acclaimed Indian architect Bijoy Jain of Studio Mumbai. Inspired by the role of design, architecture and creativity in a vibrant city, MPavilion’s program is highlighted by…

2016 marks the third edition of Cult’s annual ‘Chairity Project’, the esteemed charity event that invites leading Australian creatives to reinvent an iconic chair design. Each creative is given complete freedom to reinvent the chair, which is exhibited and auctioned off to a charity of the creative’s own choice. In…

This year’s Design Canberra festival will kick off with a keynote talk by architect Philip Vivian of Bates Smart at the award-winning Vibe Hotel at the Canberra Airport. Vivian has said the project sought to reflect Canberra’s DNA, resulting in a hotel crafted specifically for its location and context: “We…

Not In My Backyard, the 2016 International Festival of Landscape Architecture is fast approaching, taking place in Canberra over four days from 27 – 30 October 2016. Canberra is one of the very few, fully planned cities in the world. The 2016 festival in Canberra will connect the public with landscape architects…

The Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) in collaboration with Street Furniture Australia, the ACT Government and In the City Canberra have created the #BackyardExperiment, a community initiative in Garema Place in Canberra to show how changing public spaces can bring out the best in the city and its people….

The Australian National Botanic Gardens and the Ian Potter Foundation congratulate the design team led by CHROFI on creating a breathtaking design for our Ian Potter National Conservatory. Five finalists were chosen from a national design competition with the design by architects CHROFI selected for their innovative, bold and environmentally-conscious…

Object Therapy is the latest project in Hotel Hotel’s Fix and Make program. An exhibition of 30 broken objects that have undergone therapy – treated and ‘creatively’ repaired by a designer or artist opened on Friday 14 October at Hotel Hotel. The aim of the project is to help us…