Groundbreaking housing that mixes the old with the new while putting an innovative spin on conventional urban design has taken out Lake Macquarie City Council’s inaugural dWELL competition. The blueprint submitted by Newcastle architecture firm Curious Practice calls for key elements of ageing housing stock set for demolition to be…

The rooftop of Golden Age Group’s 130 Little Collins Street has been transformed into a series of site specific installations and performances by 15 of Melbourne’s most renowned architects and designers, as they, alongside Ross Harding’s Finding Infinity seek to turn Greater Melbourne from a consumer to a producer by…

The top entrants for the state’s most celebrated architectural honours have been announced, with the juries for the 2021 NSW Architecture Awards, led by Chair of Juries Peter Mould, releasing the shortlist. The shortlist follows an intensive schedule of presentations and juries will now undertake a rigorous peer review of 126…

Melbourne Design Week runs from 26 March to 5 April 2021. This year’s festival has been curated using the three thematic pillars: Care, Community and Climate. We’ve rounded up a selection of events with a sustainable focus that will be worth checking out. A New Normal led by Ross Harding,…

Sometimes to find out what we want, we look to the opposite to understand what we don’t want. A World We Don’t Want presents thirteen ideas on a world we don’t want by leading Australian creatives, to speculate on a future we do want. Contributors include Alterfact, Andrew Carvolth, Andrew…

The Hills Shire Council is running a worm farm trial in an apartment complex in North Kellyville. The ‘skip bin-sized’ worm farm is located in a carpark – just beneath the complex – and houses roughly 120 000 (30 kilograms of) worms, which will produce both worm castings and worm…

Heide Museum of Modern Art will present the first career survey of Ukrainian-Australian artist Stanislava Pinchuk from 20 March to 20 June 2021. Presented in Heide Modern, Stanislava Pinchuk: Terra Data will bring together for the first time more than 40 key works from Pinchuk’s practice plotting the changing topographies of war and…

Four Pillars fans can now enjoy their G&T guilt free, knowing the production of their favourite gin is powered by renewable energy. The award-winning gin producers are making moves towards a greener future with a 65.88 kW solar system installed on the roof at their Healesville distillery. The system, designed…

What began with a developer’s desire to create Australia’s first medium-density eight-star townhouse development at scale alongside Northcote’s Merri Creek has grown into an exemplar of sustainable living. Located on Wurundjeri Country, adjacent to the bushy parklands of Merri Creek, Northcote Place transforms the 12 000-square site of a disused…

Melbourne Design Week, Australia’s leading annual international design event, has revealed the full program for its 2021 festival – the largest iteration to date. Presented by Creative Victoria in partnership with the National Gallery of Victoria, and now in its fifth consecutive year, the festival features 11 days of more…