Building Designers Association of Victoria (BDAV) recognised the state’s best building design projects at the 20th BDAV Building Design Awards. Presented by Australia’s largest industry association representing building designers, the Awards showcased creativity and excellence across a wide range of categories including; residential design, interior design, heritage conservation, energy efficient…

WORKSHOPPED is the name of arguably Australia’s longest continuously running annual exhibition showcasing emerging Australian design talent. For the past 15 years, the annual WORKSHOPPED exhibitions have provided a platform for Australian designers to reach national and international audiences including manufacturers, retailers, fellow designers and consumers at large. To date,…

The VIVID 2015 Winners have been announced at the VIVID Awards Ceremony at Decor + Design in Melbourne. VIVID is a leading design competition renowned for unearthing the next generation of design talent. Winners have been announced across market-ready and prototype furniture and lighting design categories, and receive an Award…

The renders for MPavilion 2015 designed by AL_A, the studio of award-winning British architect Amanda Levete, were revealed on Monday. Featuring the latest technology in nautical engineering the MPavilion creates the sensation of a forest canopy in Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Gardens. It was also announced that Martin Roth, Director of…

Entries for the 2015 Victorian Premier’s Design Awards are now open. The Awards recognise and reward designers and businesses using exemplar design effectively and sustainably for business success. Celebrating the best in local design, the Awards aim to help businesses and the community understand the role that design plays in…

Stylecraft and JamFactory are delighted to announce that the winner of the 2015 Australian Furniture Design Award is Sydney-based designer Seaton Mckeon. Seaton Mckeon studied Industrial Design at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. He has worked across product design, experience design, way finding, transportation, and urban design…

State Government Hospital Wins Top Prize at 2015 WA Architecture Awards The Fiona Stanley Hospital has taken out the highest overall honour, the George Temple Poole Award, at the Australian Institute of Architects’ WA Architecture Awards. Honouring excellence in the design and construction industry, the Awards were held on Friday…

Adelaide’s public spaces have dominated at the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2015 SA Architecture Awards announced on Friday 3 July at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre. One of the state’s most coveted honours, the Jack McConnell Award for Public Architecture, went to the Adelaide Oval Redevelopment by Cox Architecture, Walter Brooke…

The 2015 winners of the Australian Institute of Architects’ NSW Architecture Awards have been announced at Sydney Town Hall tonight. From a cliff-hugging home to one of the country’s largest medical research facilities the awarded projects represent NSW’s best new architecture across 12 categories. The state’s most prestigious honour, the…

Projects involving the adaptive reuse of heritage and other older buildings are the big winners at the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2015 Tasmanian Architecture Awards, announced in the Huon Valley on Saturday night. Two residential adaptations of historical sites dominated the Heritage and Residential Architecture – Houses (Alterations and Additions)…