The Victorian Design Challenge invites design professionals and students to use their creativity to tackle one of the great challenges of our time – waste. The challenge aims to inspire impactful and implementable solutions that demonstrate the value of design and creativity to the creation of a better future. Enter the…

The 2018 NGV Architecture Commission by Melbourne architecture practice MUIR and landscape architecture studio OPENWORK has commenced installation in advance of its public unveiling next week at the NGV International. Entitled Doubleground, the winning proposal for the fourth annual competition is a collaboration between the two practices, inspired by key…

The Victorian Chapter of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) is calling for increased investment in green infrastructure at this year’s state election to improve life expectancy and liveability for Melbournians. AILA’s Victorian Chapter has released a state election campaign statement with the president calling on all parties to…

LAVA’s design for the German Pavilion Expo 2020 Dubai is a vertical campus of nature and technology, taking cues from the local architecture and Germany’s history of outstanding lightweight pavilion design. Demonstrating the Expo theme, everything from intelligent use of local climatic conditions to materials reuse to construction is sustainable….

The Urban Land Institute (ULI) has announced the winner of its 2018 Urban Innovation Ideas Competition for young professionals and students with members of Mirvac’s design team taking out the top prize for their submission ‘Reflective Lane’. The 2018 Competition called for innovative ideas to rejuvenate the north-west corner of…

Devastated when the longstanding bookshop at the Institute of Architects in Tusculum closed its doors in 2016 director of SJB Adam Haddow has since entertained the notion of a bookshop of his own. “Architext had been serving the architectural community from that site in Potts Point for decades, with Anne…