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SHELTER announces December content

10 Dec, 2020

SHELTER is the new home of inspiring design and architecture content. The global streaming service’s content encompasses everything from stories of design, to a deep dive into sustainability, history, and real-life aspirational stories. It offers audiences a range of fascinating ‘must-watch’ options from feature length films to television series; short…

2020 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship winner announced

10 Dec, 2020

Artspace Sydney and Create NSW announced Kamilaroi/Gamilaraay artist Dennis Golding as the recipient of the 2020 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship (valued at $30 000), making him the first Aboriginal artist to win in the award’s over 100-year history. Golding’s winning work Cast in cast out reflects on his childhood…

UPTOWN: 24/7 outdoor art exhibition transforms the top of Bourke Street

9 Dec, 2020

UPTOWN: an art exhibition for our city transforms the top of Bourke Street into a 24/7 outdoor art gallery – a uniquely Melbourne experience that combines art, architecture, and streetscape by matching 26 contemporary artists with vacant shops, restaurants, store windows, building exteriors and laneways. Curated by Fiona Scanlan and…

Introducing Pure Sh*t: organic, odourless cow manure

4 Dec, 2020

2020 has been a challenging year and in a bid to see some good come from this sh*t, 2020 Pure Sh*t launches out of Melbourne – a completely organic, dry, odourless manure with 100 per cent of profits given to those deeply affected by the events of this year. Ideal…

John Wardle Architects Bushfire Recovery Auction opens

26 Nov, 2020

In February, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria launched the Biodiversity Recovery Project in partnership with John Wardle Architects. This exciting initiative was developed in the aftermath of summer’s bushfires, which devastated our precious native flora and fauna and left many rare and threatened native plant species barely clinging to survival in the wild. John Wardle Architects…

Leading urban planning and design practice wins award for public space plan

25 Nov, 2020

When reimagining cities, award-winning national urban planning and design practice Hatch I RobertsDay (robertsday.com.au) believes that a focus on shaping great places, linking local neighbourhoods with parks, building safe routes that encourage active movement and reimagining post-COVID neighbourhoods as places where people can work and live is key to building…

Hydrowood used to fitout retail design concept

25 Nov, 2020

Levi’s® has announced the launch of its unique retail design concept — the Sustainability Shop in Shop — in partnership with David Jones Australia. Created using one the world’s most environmentally-friendly timbers, the innovative space is leading the way for sustainable fashion in the retail industry and offers consumers a…

NGV Australia reopens

25 Nov, 2020

The NGV reopened NGV Australia to the public on Monday 23 November and will continue releasing virtual content on NGV Channel on NGV’s website. Listed below are programs and recent news from NGV. 2019 ARCHITECTURE COMMISSION IN ABSENCE WINS NATIONAL ARCHITECTURE AWARD The 2020 Architecture Commission In Absence designed by Yhonnie Scarce…

New Arid Garden at Melbourne Gardens opens

23 Nov, 2020

Over a century in the making and with the help of generous donors, the revamped Arid Garden was designed by renowned landscape architect Andrew Laidlaw, and is based on the internal cellular structure of a succulent. The collection features more than 3000 arid plants including 400 different species, with many sourced…