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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

Breathe Architecture’s Jeremy McLeod is not afraid of breaking the mould. The creation of the Nightingale Model upended the status quo of multi-residential design, development and living in Australia. The model draws on the tenets of affordability, transparency, sustainability, deliberative design and community contribution. In recent years, the Nightingale Model…

Unique exercise equipment that makes child’s play out of a serious gym workout has taken out the top prize in the 2017 Victorian Premier’s Design Awards. Minister for Industry and Employment Ben Carroll presented the awards, which showcase the best in Victorian design across categories including architectural, product and industrial,…