The Naomi Milgrom Foundation and MPavilion last week unveiled highlights of the MPavilion 2016/2017 program, which is placed to be bigger than the 2015 program and will feature more than 400 free public events with more than 300 collaborators, including 31 education and cultural organisations. Designed by acclaimed Indian architect…
A Space Age airport, cutting-edge medical centre, cubist coastal cabana and a locally designed high school to be constructed in Uganda are among 19 outstanding projects competing in this year’s coveted Australian Institute of Architects’ NSW Country Division Awards. Spanning seven categories from heritage, commercial and residential works to visionary…
Cbus Property and Charter Hall’s internationally lauded building, 171 Collins Street, Melbourne, has become the first building in Victoria to achieve a 6-star NABERS energy rating. Designed by award-winning architects Bates Smart, engineered by Umow Lai and managed by Knight Frank, it is one of just two commercial office buildings…
The Sydney Design Festival 2016 program has been released, featuring over 100 events in venues across Sydney from 2 – 11 September. Make or Break is the theme for this year’s festival and is embodied in the program’s range of exhibitions, talks and workshops. Since 1996 the Sydney Design Festival…
For two months only, Cult presents ‘The Cult House’ – a temporary concept space in Chippendale’s Kensington Street Creative Precinct retailing furniture and design objects from HAY, Magis, Anglepoise and Adam Goodrum. Set within a rugged c.1842 heritage terrace, ‘The Cult House’ showcases the best furniture and design objects from…
The international architectural competition for the Ryde Civic Hub Precinct, has been won by the Beijing Institute of Architectural Design, China, with a striking, multi-functional destination design concept. The winner was announced by the Jury chair, Peter Poulet, after an eight month search which saw 175 architectural firms from 47…
The 10th annual Sydney Architecture Festival returns in 2016 with an action-packed four-day program of talks, events, tours and architecture installations presented from Friday 30 September until Monday 3 October 2016. The Festival will be headlined by a global address delivered on World Architecture Day on Monday 3 October by…
Glenn Murcutt: Architecture of Faith is a unique exhibition that explores the new Australian Islamic Centre in Newport, Victoria, designed by world-renowned Australian architect Glenn Murcutt AO in collaboration with Hakan Elevli of Melbourne practice Elevli Plus. Murcutt, Australia’s most internationally celebrated architect, has devoted nearly a decade to the…
Announced at Think Brick Australia’s Gala Dinner at the Ivy Ballroom in Sydney on Friday, 5 August, twenty-five outstanding projects from across Australia have been recognised in the 2016 Think Brick Awards, Australia’s richest design awards. This year marks a decade of the Think Brick Awards, a program that celebrates excellence in the use…
North Melbourne Football Club’s Arden Street headquarters and a local recreation centre are now powered by solar thanks to an investment by the City of Melbourne and the Kangaroos. Chair of the City of Melbourne’s Environment Portfolio, Cr Arron Wood, said a 100kW solar system has been installed on the…
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