In 2013 Geoff Harris purchased a multi-million-dollar property in Collingwood, Cromwell Manor, and gifted its use for five dollars a year, for 50 years, to STREAT – an incredible social enterprise combatting homelessness by providing professional training in the hospitality industry to disadvantaged youth. And with a motto like “Tastes…

UNSW Sydney has announced a tripartite arrangement with contract partners Maoneng Australia (Maoneng) and Origin Energy (Origin) for an offsite Solar PV Corporate Power Purchase Agreement (Solar PPA). The 15-year solar supply agreement with Maoneng is the first of its kind in Australia – bringing together a retailer, developer and…

The Colonies is the latest instalment of a series of ongoing art projects by Ben Morieson using sunflowers as a medium to explore the delineation between the public and the private space. Seeking to define what Spanish architect Ignasi de Sola Morales labeled ‘vague terrain’, this project is seeking to…

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…

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…