Spain’s Alvaro Catalán de Ocón recalls the creative journey shared by the PET Lamp project and the Northern Territory’s Ramingining weavers that culminated in an installation for the NGV Triennial. Founded in 2011, the PET Lamp project has taken Spanish designer Alvaro Catalán de Ocón and his co-designers to South…
Timber specialists Feast Watson has partnered with four renowned Australian designers – Steve Cordony, Sarah Ellison, Natalie Turnbull and Nat Wheeler and Kristy Sadlier of norsu Interiors – to raise money for Australian charities through its annual Re-Love Project. Re-Love by Feast Watson is the brand’s premiere collaborative charity campaign,…
DESIGN Canberra is giving design-lovers the chance to have their own piece of contemporary Canberra design with the festival’s second annual design auction at the festival opening party. Selected artists and featured works have been announced and bidding is now open. Limited edition and one-off pieces from Canberra’s leading designers…
Emerging from the ground, tree trunks, branches and walls, living sculptures will offer a window into the imagination. From Nature will showcase living sculptures and organic land artwork, transforming parkland into an outdoor open-air gallery at Gasworks Arts Park from Saturday 3 November until Sunday 11 November. The only exhibition…
Rob Adams, Director of City Design at the City of Melbourne launches INVERT 2.0 MINI LIVING – BUILT BY ALL, a collaboration between green magazine, MINI, the City of Melbourne and RMIT. “We’re looking at the city and saying: ‘How do we repurpose it?’,” Rob Adams noted at the launch. “…Many…
The group behind the Caulfield to Dandenong level crossing removal project has won the Built Environment category in this year’s Premier’s Sustainability Awards. Â Â Lendlease, CPB Contractors, WSP, Aurecon, Level Crossing Removal Authority and Metro Trains Melbourne have transformed a previous brownfield rail corridor into 22.5 hectares of new linear…
Green magazine is delighted to announce that INVERT 2.0 MINI LIVING – BUILT BY ALL is officially open to the public. The exhibition – developed in collaboration with MINI LIVING and with support from the City of Melbourne and RMIT – is ready to welcome visitors on location at the…
Melbourne’s City of Casey’s spectacular new entertainment precinct, Bunjil Place, added the Grand Prix Award at the Australian Timber Design Awards (ATDA) to its impressive list of achievements. The award was presented at the 19th ATDA dinner held at the Pyrmont Star. Other winners on the night included Jackson Teece…
The Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) has announced the winners of the 2018 National Landscape Architecture Awards. The awards recognised 38 winners over 14 categories, celebrating leading projects of all sizes across Australia’s regional and metropolitan areas. The annual awards program acknowledges how landscape architects are helping to shape…
“Architecture constructs society,” Carme Pinós tells me. “For that reason, [architects] have a strong responsibility to society. I love this responsibility,” she notes, with palpable sincerity. The lauded Barcelona-based architect of Estudio Carme Pinós has come to Melbourne for the official opening of MPavilion 2018. The fifth incarnation in an ongoing series of annual…
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