The first stage of LendLease’s Melbourne Quarter (MQ) has recently been approved by The Minister of Planning, Richard Whynne. The vision is to conceive a special place that is a new statement for Melbourne; an urban transformation that is world class in the form of an entirely new city block. Melbourne…

The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion is a program of short-term structures devised in 2000 by Gallery Director Julia Peyton-Jones. Now an international site for architectural innovation, each Pavilion is created by an renowned architect or designer who has not yet completed a building in England at the time of the Gallery’s…

First devised by Breathe Architecture, The Nightingale Model is a triple bottom line development with apartments that are environmentally, socially and financially sustainable. The ultimate goal of the project is to provide quality urban housing at an affordable price by simplifying both the development process and the building itself. The…

Brisbane will be the first Australian city to host Green Ladder, a touring architectural installation designed by world renowned Vietnamese Vo Trong Nghia Architects. As a part of Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation’s (SCAF) Fugitive Structures series, a gridded bamboo structure with a floating transparent ceiling was unveiled this week at…

Today the Living Future Institute of Australia (LFIA) will formally launch the Brickworks Living Building Challenge design competition at a special event in Melbourne, pressing the go button for designers, built environment professionals and students around the world to conceptualise what the world’s most sustainable retail centre looks like. The LFIA…

The Australian Institute of Architects’ has officially launched the 2016 South Australian Architecture Awards program today, celebrating the diversity of our State’s finest architectural projects. Over 40 architecture practices and design collaborations have entered projects into categories ranging from, new houses and residential alterations & additions, public buildings and urban…

Designed and made in Melbourne, the 100th Chair for the 100 Chairs in 100 Days: Martino Gamper exhibition at RMIT University Design Hub has been revealed. Renowned for his cross-disciplinary and culturally responsive approach to design, London-based Martino Gamper first came to international acclaim with 100 Chairs in 100 Days….

Two influential Spanish architects have joined the speaker line-up for the 2016 National Architecture Conference, How Soon is Now, taking place in Adelaide, 28-30 April. Co-creative Directors Cameron Bruhn, Sam Spurr and Ben Hewett, have named ‘guerrilla architect’ Santiago Cirugeda of Seville and self-sufficiency advocate Vicente Guallart from Barcelona as…

“Imagine a building designed and constructed to function as elegantly and efficiently as a flower: a building informed by its bioregion’s characteristics, that generates all of its own energy with renewable resources, captures and treats all of its water, is toxic free and beautiful.” – The Living Future Institute of…

An ultra-efficient display home on Victoria’s Bass Coast has set a new benchmark in affordable living, costing only $500 a year to run or 15 per cent of the power and water bills needed to run an average Victorian home.  The double-story, four-bedroom house – the first of 220 homes…