Next Tuesday, 12 May Milieu Hospitality will launch OPEN KITCHEN, an initiative offering complimentary meals to hospitality professionals who have lost their jobs or had hours dramatically reduced and are not eligible for Australian government support. All meals will be vegetarian and serve two people. Meals will be made available…

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…

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 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…

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…

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…

Ferrars & York, 22 carbon neutral apartments 100 metres from the South Melbourne Market, will present the first opportunity to purchase apartments that balance people, planet and prosperity south of the Yarra River. Ferrars & York will be the first project of its kind on the market in South Melbourne….

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…

Evolutionary biology aims to explain how new species arise and evolve to occupy myriad niches – but it is not a singular or simplistic story. Rare bees found in high mountain areas of Fiji provide evidence that they have evolved into many species, despite the fact they can’t readily adapt…

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…