Events

Ballarat to host bonsai exhibition

1 Feb, 2018

Chojo Feature Trees and The Art Gallery of Ballarat collaborate to exhibit a collection of Australia’s most advanced bonsai mixed with a collection of antique Asian ceramics. Gordon Morrison, the long-time curator of the National Gallery of Victoria has been at the helm in Ballarat since 2004 and has rounded…

Summer blooms in Sydney

29 Jan, 2018

Summer blooms are brightening 14 of the city’s most frequented public spaces as thousands return to work in the CBD following the holiday period. The summer edition of the City of Sydney’s biannual Living Colour display is now underway – featuring more than 100,000 plants. Flower varieties including yellow marigold,…

Hidden Design Festival 2018

24 Jan, 2018

Hidden Design Festival will open a selection of designer gardens for a one-off public viewing over a single weekend, 10-11 March 2018. Held in Sydney, Hidden Design Festival showcases a new and diverse range of outdoor spaces created by some of Sydney’s best known and award-winning landscape designers as well…

Asia Pacific Architecture Forum 2018

24 Jan, 2018

An initiative of State Library of Queensland and Architecture Media, the 2018 Asia Pacific Architecture Forum will return to Brisbane from 10 to 23 March, 2018. The program will feature a range of free and ticketed events, including exhibitions, installations, symposia, lectures and workshops, which will engage architecture and design…

Sydney Design Festival highlights announced

22 Jan, 2018

A raft of international speakers and a new design exhibition have been announced for the Sydney Design Festival, running from 2 – 11 March 2018 at Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences and associated venues throughout Greater Sydney. Curated and produced by MAAS around the theme of Call to Action,…

MPavilion’s program extended

11 Jan, 2018

Due to popular demand, MPavilion’s February 2018 program of free cultural and design events, presented under the pavilion designed by renowned international architects Rem Koolhaas and David Gianotten of OMA, has been extended to 11 February 2018. Concluding MPavilion’s 2017–18 season on Sunday 11 February is a special film screening…

Sustainable Living Festival’s Great Local Lunch

4 Jan, 2018

Exchange your home grown or gleaned produce to be crafted into a free four-course lunch on Sunday 11 February. The Great Local Lunch is a feature National Sustainable Living Festival event running for its fifth year. In 2018 the Great Local Lunch is jumping on the waste stream and inviting…

Entries open for Dulux Colour Awards 2018

22 Dec, 2017

Entries are now open for the 32nd annual Dulux Colour Awards. In 2018, the iconic program invites architects, designers, stylists and students to submit work that showcases their use of colour across commercial and residential spaces. The inaugural awards celebrate creative and innovative use of colour. Entrants are required to…

The University of Sydney Architecture Graduate Exhibition has begun

5 Dec, 2017

Designs for the Bays Precinct, high-density housing, and public architecture around Sydney’s Domain, Hyde Park and Oxford Street are among the architectural challenges that University of Sydney graduating students are presenting in the 2017 Architecture Graduate Exhibition. On display are more than 240 architectural models and drawings created by graduating…

Indigenous Architecture explored at MPavilion

29 Nov, 2017

Forming part of MPavilion’s inaugural 2017 Regional Program, BLAKitecture on Tuesday 5 December 2017 will explore Indigenous Architecture in an open forum and bring together Indigenous built environment practitioners from across Australia to MPavilion, on the Yalukit Willam land of the Boon Wurrung people. Sarah Lynn Rees, a Palawa, Plangermaireener…