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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…

Carriageworks unveils installation for Sydney Festival 2018

8 Jan, 2018

Carriageworks today unveiled a major new commission by renowned German artist Katharina Grosse of a site-specific installation representing the third in the Schwartz Carriageworks series of major international projects. The world premiere of the work titled The Horse Trottted Another Couple of Metres, Then it Stopped is presented free to…

Cultural Exchange

5 Jan, 2018

After graduating from university, industrial designer Liam Mugavin spent four years working in Japan before returning to Sydney to establish his practice in 2013. His studio focuses on highly conceptual and crafted design, and in 2017 was selected out of 86 applicants to undertake a furniture project for the new…

Oasis

1 Jan, 2018

Anna Gorman is no stranger to community architecture and responding to place within the built environment, and neither is The Northshore Pavilion in Queensland. Her design of the riverside public gathering platform expresses the idea of a temporary building as a landmark, utilising prefabricated components to enable future relocation and…

Sustainable bamboo structures built at Queensland music festival

28 Dec, 2017

Cave Urban is a Sydney-based design collective that concerns itself with the intersection between art and architecture using bamboo. Their projects are founded on participation between local communities, universities and artists. For the past five years, Cave Urban have been researching and constructing bamboo structures at Queensland’s annual Woodford Folk…

2017 NGV Architecture Commission: Garden wall

25 Dec, 2017

Challenging the mythology of the open Australian landscape, the 2017 NGV Architecture Commission transforms the NGV’s Grollo Equiset Garden into a series of light-filled, maze-like passageways, corridors and rooms. Designed by winners Retallack Thompson and Other Architects, the project entitled Garden wall divides the NGV garden using 119 white walls…

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…

Elizabeth Street pop-up park opens for summer

20 Dec, 2017

Melbourne’s latest public open space addition, a temporary ‘pop-up’ park, has opened on the corner of Elizabeth Street between Flinders Lane and Flinders Street. Lord Mayor Robert Doyle AC said the 375-square-metre pop-up park will include feature lighting, trees, planter boxes, artificial turf and moveable street furniture. “The corner of…

What’s on offer at the NGV Triennial

18 Dec, 2017

The inaugural NGV Triennial presents an unprecedented, large-scale exhibition of international art, design and architecture from 15 December 2017 to 15 April 2018 at the National Gallery of Victoria. Free and exclusive to Melbourne, the NGV Triennial showcases major works by more than 100 artists and designers from 32 countries,…

New acquisition for NGV Triennial

16 Dec, 2017

The National Gallery of Victoria is pleased to announce that NGV Triennial Principal Partner Mercedes-Benz Australia is supporting the acquisition of a major work by Australian designer Brodie Neill for the NGV’s permanent collection. Created from blue and white ocean plastic waste, which Neill and a team of environmentalists have…