Object Therapy is the latest project in Hotel Hotel’s Fix and Make program. An exhibition of 30 broken objects that have undergone therapy – treated and ‘creatively’ repaired by a designer or artist opened on Friday 14 October at Hotel Hotel. The aim of the project is to help us…
An exhibition of drawings, models and photographs from architectural firm Edition Office. Edition Office is an architecture studio based in Melbourne, Australia. Through the execution of its built work and research, the practice is creating an ongoing series of figures, relics, stories and relationships; all continuing a greater investigation into material & spatial practice. Edition…
The recipients of the 2016 Australian Urban Design Awards were announced at a ceremony in Melbourne on the evening of 13 October 2016. This year’s awards saw a high calibre of entries from across Australia’s cities, towns and communities. The 2016 jury were impressed by both the record number of entries and the…
Seventy-five emerging architects have been shortlisted for the 2017 Dulux Study Tour. The coveted travelling scholarship is awarded annually to five individuals, who are no more than ten years from graduation, for the contributions to architectural practice, education, design excellence and community involvement. In 2017, the will visit Prague, London…
A playful reinvention of the suburban car wash is the vision for the NGV’s 2016 Architecture Commission, designed by Melbourne-based M@ STUDIO Architects. Inspired by an existing car wash in Blackburn, the design reimagines a familiar destination and brings it into the unfamiliar surroundings of the NGV Garden at NGV International. Transforming…
One of Australia’s most anticipated independent designer shopping weekends, The Big Design Market, is returning to Melbourne from 2-4 December and has announced the addition of a Sydney event from 25-27 November. The Big Design Market caters to an audience who value originality, quality and ethically produced designs and also…
“Third places” – those that lie between work and home – provide important contact points in our modern urban society. They expand the room we have to live in and help us to relax, meet up with one another and increase our productivity. Freelancers, for example, often use cafés as…
This is the next generation, Chicago workspace for Ansarada, a fast growing M&A financial data services company. The project today won the inaugural American Architecture Gold Medal for Commercial Architecture. Perhaps the last thing you would expect to encounter on entering a financial services workspace is a luxurious ‘collaboration room’…
Spring Into Gardening returns this year to Prahran’s lush Victoria Gardens on Sunday 9 October, drawing in an average of 5,000 gardening and sustainability enthusiasts of all ages. Costa Georgiadis from ABC’s Gardening Australia will host this year’s one-day festival, which features an exciting program of free expert talks, practical…
To celebrate World Architecture Day on Monday 3 October, the Australian Institute of Architects has opened voting in the National Architecture Awards’ 2016 People’s Choice Award. The People’s Choice Award gives members of the public the opportunity to select their favourite house from the 14 residential projects shortlisted by the…
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