Studiomama’s Nina Tolstrup shares the playful, inspired approach to small space design that influenced her recent project with MINI LIVING at this year’s Milan Design Week. Nina Tolstrup embodies quintessential Danish design in her furniture and architectural firm Studiomama. The practice is a collaboration between Nina and husband Jack Mama…
Free to Feed is a not-for-profit social enterprise that brings together refugees, people seeking asylum and new migrants to celebrate their stories and cultures through food-oriented initiatives. Circle Studio Architects was given a brief to create a flexible space that could adapt to varying requirements while embodying the inviting and…
So much more than just the boss of small spaces, Bradley Swartz has a think about a great many things when he designs. Big or small, his practice considers the client’s whole neighbourhood, access to amenities, shops, parks, pools, etc., as well as their more intimate requirements, as part of…
CONCRETE: art design architecture is a major exhibition exploring innovative ways that concrete is being used by artists, designers and architects in Australia in the 21st century. Curated by JamFactory’s Margaret Hancock Davis (Senior Curator) and Brian Parkes (CEO), the exhibition includes 21 artists, designers and architects from across Australia and…
InsideOut is a non-profit school prototype that was built in Yeboahkrom, a rural village in Ghana after winds had destroyed the only school in the area. Italian designers Andrea Tabocchini and Francesca Vittorini sought to offer an alternative to typical classroom structures that was both affordable and easy to replicate….
David Holmgren shares his wisdom on the future of urban permaculture from his country Victorian farm. David Holmgren is a passionate activist committed to shaking up the status quo. To his devoted followers – as witnessed at this year’s Sustainable Living Festival in Melbourne – he is the oracle from…
A table inlaid with a map of the stars at the moment man first stood on the moon. A sideboard that speaks of the dark history of European settlement and the hope of cross-cultural exchange. A drinks cabinet that echoes the misery of addiction… This is not furniture that happens…
A comprehensive effort to protect, and in some cases re-establish, some of the world’s rare and endangered species, has won the top prize in the prestigious Banksia Sustainability Awards. The Lord Howe Island Board’s project, Protecting Paradise, won the 2018 Banksia Gold Award, which recognises the “best of the best”…
The annual cultural celebration Sydney Festival returns to transform the city from 9–27 January 2019, delivering the highest quality art and big ideas. January’s blockbuster program features 18 world premieres, five Australian premieres and eight Australian exclusives alongside a variety of new Australian co-commissions. Roslyn Packer Theatre becomes the home of two…
A new Bush Heritage Australia field station in the Fitz-Stirling global biodiversity hotspot has officially ushered in the next phase of conservation science in south west WA. The $1.1 million Michael Tichbon Field Station was officially opened today at Bush Heritage’s Red Moort Reserve, 130 kilometres by road north east…
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