Brighton resident Maxine Lynch has generously offered to open the gate to her beloved garden one last time before selling her home, in order to raise funds for local charity St Kilda Mums. Maxine’s garden, a Brighton treasure, has been lovingly established over 44 years and features Grevilleas, Gardenias, Manchurian…
New York based experimental knowledge lab, the Un-School of Disruptive Design is set to pop up for a week-long immersive fellowship program this January in Melbourne. Headed up by award winning Australian designer, Dr. Leyla Acaroglu, the unique program for professionals and emerging leaders has been run in New York…
The Fix and Make year-long program of workshops and talks has been released and tickets are available for purchase. Fix and Make brings different people together to actively question our consumption of and relationship with objects. The program, set within a specially designed space at Hotel Hotel on Canberra, combines practical, experimental and philosophical learning. Over the next…
Contemporary Australian artist Shona Wilson has built her 25 year practice around a daily engagement with nature. Using found natural materials to create sculptural assemblages, she invites the viewer to marvel and wonder at the myriad details found within nature. Shona’s latest exhibition at Mossgreen Gallery is a project titled,…
An inner-city wetland stream and a collection of disaster resilient social parks in Wellington, and activity precincts for an industrial area in Sydney have been selected as the top three proposals for landscape architecture design competition, This Public Space. University student groups across Australia and New Zealand developed innovative design and programming strategies…
Newtown Neighbourhood Centre’s (NNC) annual fundraiser event is back again for 2015. Newtown Festival boasts the vibrant creative, conscientious and inclusive community of Newtown, and will showcase a range of eco initiatives that reflect this originality and diversity. This year they welcome Environmental Enterprises, their newest community partner, to ensure that all…
The works from 39 Australian and International artists have been shortlisted for the annual Incinerator Art Award opening on 9 October, making it the largest exhibition in the Incinerator Art Award’s history. The shortlisted artists’ works were chosen from a record number of applicants representing every state and territory in…
Last weekend Open Gardens Victoria welcomed Spring and the people of Victoria to its first event at Musk Cottage on the Mornington Peninsula. Rick Eckersley and his design team from Eckersley Garden Architecture have designed and developed one of Australia’s most outstanding gardens, a true expression of modern living in…
Less than 12 months after the success of Adelaide’s first Festival of Architecture and Design (FAD) last year, the Festival has launched its program of over 40 events held from Thursday 8th until Tuesday 13th October. The Festival proudly supported by major sponsor Architectural Window Systems (AWS) will deliver a…
The 2015 Sydney Architecture Festival (SAF), presented from 2 until 5 October, has announced details of three specially curated SAF Tours being held on Sunday 4 October. From Circular Quay’s commercial and urban developments to new public spaces and skyline icons in Sydney’s CBD, the tours will explore the reasons for…
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