A Climate for Art (ACFA) a new initiative aimed at mobilising the arts industry for climate action, has launched, with trailblazing Australian arts organisations already having pledged to divest. These organisations make up a new Climate Union, whose inaugural meeting will take place following the launch event. With these current…
Bundanon has announced its major new exhibition season, The Polyphonic Sea, opening on 8 July 2023. The Polyphonic Sea explores the wealth of languages around us, from speech and writing, gesture, and music, to the flow of the natural environment. Curated by Sophie O’Brien, it showcases recent and new works…
The Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) has announced the winners of the 2023 NSW State Awards at an event held in Sydney. The jury, made up of renowned landscape architects, honoured 39 winners for their dedication to nature, ecology and consultation with the community, including with First Nations People….
The sculptural masterpiece STH BNK By Beulah is set to become Australia’s first 5-minute vertical city, providing residents with a plethora of everyday essentials and world-class offerings within walking distance. STH BNK By Beulah, a vertically integrated city within a city, will offer over 100 shops spanning retail, everyday essentials,…
The Open House Melbourne (OHM) Weekend returns in 2023 on Saturday 29 + Sunday 30 July with an exciting new program of events addressing the theme, Collective City. As Melbourne expands to reach projected population of 8 million by 2050, Collective City seeks to explore how we might reinvent, re-purpose…
The Australian Institute of Architects’ Regional Architecture Awards have honoured winning Greater Brisbane projects across educational, commercial, residential, heritage, interior and urban categories. The awards also highlighted the true winners – the students, business owners and residential homeowners who are now the beneficiaries of these diverse designs. Craft’d Grounds by…
As part of McGregor Coxall’s commitment to First Nations reconciliation, they have announced a three-year design research partnership between McGregor Coxall and RMIT’s Yulendj Weelam Design Research Lab from the School of Architecture and Urban Design. This collaboration will explore how academics, Indigenous knowledge holders and design practitioners can work…
The question of the origin of our timber is becoming increasingly difficult to answer. CERES Fair Wood has collaborated with 12 local furniture makers all on sustainable timber journeys to create a truly local piece of furniture as part of Melbourne Design Week 2023. The final pieces will form part…
Daniel Andrews government has made a decision to bring forward the transition out of native forest logging, from 2030 to January 2024. Conservationists and forest campaigners from across the state are celebrating the news, after long, and hard fought campaigns, some spanning nearly four decades. Only months after the announcement…
From 15-17 June, the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre will for the first time host two of Australia’s premier design events – Design Show Australia and ArchiBuild Expo – under one roof. This will be the first Design Show in Melbourne (with the original event being hosted in Sydney last…
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