A new guide has been released by the NSW Government to help better recognise Indigenous culture in planning and design. The NSW Government Architect’s Connecting with Country Framework aims to empower Aboriginal voices and provide guidance to government, planners, designers and industry on how to respond to Country through the…
Powerhouse has announced the gift by the Naomi Milgrom Foundation of the complete series of 10 MPavilion Chair Commissions to the museum’s collection. Conceived and created by Naomi Milgrom AC as an initiative of the Naomi Milgrom Foundation, this year sees MPavilion celebrate a decade as the country’s leading architectural…
Tools For After (TFA), presented by The Italian Cultural Institute of Melbourne (IIC), will host the TFA Architecture Exhibition as part of its inaugural six-week program. This major exhibition, held at the Fitzroy Town Hall from September 14 – October 10, will immerse visitors in the world of Italian architecture…
The Living Future Institute of Australia (LFIA) has launched the highly anticipated ILLUMANATE Living Building Challenge® Design Competition in partnership with Development Victoria. The competition calls on architects, designers and students to create the most sustainable, and restorative, heritage-listed building in Australia, which must live up to precise environmental, self-sustaining…
Television personality Melissa Leong has joined property and culture leaders Frasers Property Australia, International Towers, Cbus Property and Powerhouse Museum Group in pledging for the future of electric cooking. The Global Cooksafe Coalition hosted an exciting announcement from Frasers Property Australia, International Towers Cbus Property and the Powerhouse Museum group,…
A giant inflatable sphere – which literally breathes throughout the day – has been selected as the NGV’s 2023 Architecture Commission. Making the invisible visible, (This is) Air, developed by Nic Brunsdon in collaboration with ENESS, draws attention to one of the universal and defining features of life on Earth: breathing air. Utilising…
More than 70 of Australia’s leading architectural projects, from a modular home in the Brisbane suburbs to additions to the Art Gallery of New South Wales, to school and health precinct upgrades, have been shortlisted for the prestigious Australian Institute of Architects’ 2023 National Architecture Awards. The National Architecture Awards…
The first and only initiative of its kind in Australia, the Country Road + NGV First Nations Commissions is a national, biennial mentorship and exhibition program that pairs emerging Australian First Nations artists and designers with one of eight esteemed industry mentors. Working collaboratively, the mentors will each support and guide…
Oscar Martin (co-founder Pedestrian.tv) and Australian architect Peter Stutchbury have partnered on a new Proptech startup called Dimensions X. Three years after conception, an awarded Prototype (2022 AIA sustainability award & new residential commendation) and recently awarded the 2023 AIA Small Project Award Dimensions X has sold out its first…
Heritage projects were big winners at last night’s 2023 Tasmanian Architecture Awards. Held at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in nipaluna/Hobart, the Awards recognised architectural excellence in categories such as public architecture, residential, commercial, and education. Tasmania Chapter President, Megan Baynes, said the Awards celebrated the value good architecture adds…
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