The City of Sydney will celebrate national Biodiversity Month this September with a series of free wildlife workshops to help people of all ages learn more about our local birds, bats and trees. Biodiversity Month is an annual international event that aims to promote the importance of looking after plant…

Unlock the doors to more than 50 of the city’s most historic and architecturally inspiring buildings at Sydney Open on Sunday 2 November 2014. Celebrating its 10th anniversary, the biennial Sydney Open gives Sydneysiders and visitors alike the rare opportunity to explore, learn and discover hidden architectural gems. Presented by…

Internationally renowned architect Alisa Andrasek’s interactive installation Bloom will be on show at RMIT University Design Hub from 28 August to 11 October, in conjunction with The Future Is Here – an exhibition from London’s Design Museum. Bloom – an urban toy, distributed social game and collective ‘gardening’ experience –…

State Library of Queensland today launches their major exhibition Hot Modernism: building modern Queensland 1945–75 which will run until 12 October 2014. Hot Modernism is the outcome of an important partnership between State Library and The University of Queensland along with support from the Australia Research Council Linkage Project funding….

The first Festival of Landscape Architecture: Forecast program was launched last week, overlooking the Festival site on the Brisbane River. The Festival Creative Directors, Diana Snape, Sharon Mackay and Catherin Bull, in an advisory role, promise a program of participatory experiences and conversations. ‘Forecast is designed to inspire and engage…

Some of the best local building designers and projects have been nominated to receive an award at the 2014 BDAV Building Design Awards. The Awards recognise building design projects across a wide range of categories, including residential design, interior design, energy efficiency and environmental sustainability, heritage conservation, and non-residential design…

Open House Melbourne is back with a number of new and exciting elements to the program for 2014. On top of the ever-popular Open House Melbourne weekend on Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 July, there is a range of city based events in July including Nite Art installations, the Speaker…

Australian Garden Show Sydney Event Director, Anthony Bastic, AGB Events, today welcomed the return of the Show which in 2013, its inaugural year, attracted over 25,000 garden lovers to the grounds of Centennial Park. “I look forward to seeing visitors from across the nation embrace their love of the great…

A light sculpture with its own personality ­ ‘Ray’ ­ is the first ever solar­powered installation at Vivid 2014, Sydney’s annual festival of music, light and ideas. In the first week of the festival it was also the most popular installation with more than 200,000 visitors! Passers­by can say #HiRay…

Facewall is an interactive art installation to be held in September 2014 at Federation Square. The installation is about making the consumption of digital content on mobiles less anti-social by making users look up at their surroundings via an interactive ‘selfie’ game. The ‘wall’ consists of a grid of lamps…