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Heide Museum of Modern Art reveals design details for new Healing Garden

6 May, 2020

Heide Museum of Modern Art and leading landscape architecture studio Openwork have revealed design details for the new Healing Garden. Inspired by Heide founder Sunday Reed’s profound love for her garden, the Healing Garden draws on the curative properties of plants and the ever-growing body of knowledge that positions gardens…

Winners announced for the 2020 Head On Photo Awards

5 May, 2020

Head On Photo Festival, Australia’s leading international annual photography event, have announced the winners of the 2020 Head On Photo Awards. Judged anonymously by a panel of internationally recognised photographers, editors and leading industry professionals, the annual awards celebrate excellence in three categories including Portrait, Landscape and Student. The winners were announced on…

UNSW Associate Professor: we need green spaces in COVID-19 era

30 Apr, 2020

UNSW Associate Professor Paul Osmond is urging people to soak up nature on balconies, gardens or exercise in parks during COVID-19. “We need nature, at a minimum for viewing, but ideally through immersion and interaction,” the lecturer from UNSW Built Environment says. “Particularly now, as a way of de-stressing and…

Documentary celebrates the work of architect Richard Leplastrier

29 Apr, 2020

Revered by architects around the world, Richard Leplastrier’s search for beauty in his career is interwoven with his own life in a bush camp on the edge of Sydney. This documentary about Australian architect Richard Leplastrier was filmed over 15 years. It began with the filming of the design and…

Honey Fingers’ Beehives zine captures beekeeping around the world

29 Apr, 2020

The relationship between humans and bees is a close and long-running one. It’s so close that Melbourne-based creative beekeeping studio, Honey Fingers refers to it as ‘bee cultures’ – the special dynamic between honeybees and humanity. Honey Fingers is all about promoting, investigating and experimenting with bee cultures, and its…

NSW Architecture Awards 2020 shortlist announced

22 Apr, 2020

Led by Chair of Juries Peter Poulet, this year’s juries for the 2020 NSW Architecture Awards have announced the shortlist of 122 entries. The shortlist was developed following an intensive schedule of presentations and juries will now undertake rigorous peer review of shortlisted projects across 11 categories. This year’s program…

MultiPly: a carbon neutral timber pavilion

16 Apr, 2020

MultiPly, an eight metre high, carbon neutral timber pavilion made exclusively from American tulipwood, opened to the public in Madrid Rio at its entrance to the Casa de Campo, as part of the Madrid Design Festival, on the 1st of February and was open for two weeks. The 32-cubic metres…

2020 Victorian Tree of the Year competition voting opens

15 Apr, 2020

The National Trust of Australia (Victoria) is excited to announce voting is officially open for the 2020 Victorian Tree of the Year, with nine significant trees shortlisted for the coveted title. The Victorian Tree of the Year contest aims to raise awareness of the conservation of the state’s natural heritage,…