TarraWarra Museum of Art, located in the picturesque Yarra Valley in Victoria, will open the doors publicly to its breathtaking new building, the Eva and Marc Besen Centre, from 4 March 2025. The Centre will be a dedicated place of learning and creative inspiration for all ages, utilising flexible and adaptable spaces…
Regional NSW’s best new residential, commercial, and public buildings have been named in the Australian Institute of Architects 2025 NSW Regional Architecture Awards. This year’s winners can be seen as a window into the changing built environment of contemporary regional Australia and a look into the way the state will live, work,…
Awards and commendations for Newcastle’s best new residential and commercial buildings have been named in the Australian Institute of Architects 2025 Newcastle Architecture Awards, shining a light on the most innovative, sustainable, and inspirational homes, commercial and community buildings. This year’s winners can be seen as a window into the changing…
Regional Victoria’s largest and leading annual design festival, Geelong Design Week presents 10 days of more than 70 innovative exhibitions, workshops, tours, talks and experiences throughout Geelong, the Bellarine Peninsula and the Surf Coast from 21-30 November. The program also puts a spotlight on how Geelong is championing the way…
VZUG in partnership with green magazine presents the Clever Kitchens Series.  The publishers of green magazine have converted four 40-foot shipping containers into a home nestled into remnant open woodland on Victoria’s Surf Coast. The all-electric home produces and stores its own electricity. With a design brief for subdued…
Australia, it’s time to reduce, rethink, and contain your waste like never before! Keep Australia Beautiful’s ‘Contain Your Waste’ Challenge is back, running from 18-24 November 2024. This national event invites Australians to rethink consumption habits by aiming to fit an entire week’s worth of waste inside a single container of their choice—whether…
Taking the form of a labyrinthine house-within-a-house, Home Truth by Breathe, the winning design of the NGV Architecture Commission for 2024, invites audiences to envision an alternative way of building homes in Australia. Highlighting how small-scale architecture can create homes that are more sustainable, higher-quality and community-orientated, Home Truth presents…
BMW Group Australia has announced the winners and finalists of this year’s YourMelbourne student competition, held in collaboration with The University of Melbourne and RMIT University. For the fifth consecutive year, BMW Group Australia and the two universities invited students to research, design, and present their vision of Melbourne in…
A major collaborative project between artists Aunty Cheryl Davison, Aunty Julie Freeman and Jonathan Jones Bundanon has unveiled bagan bariwariganyan: echoes of country, an exhibition of new works created by Walbunja/Ngarigo artist Aunty Cheryl Davison, Gweagal/Wandiwandian artist Aunty Julie Freeman, and Wiradyuri/Kamilaroi artist Jonathan Jones, open until 9 February 2025. Celebrating South Coast stories and upholding local…
Internationally renowned architect, and Director of Marra+Yeh Architects, Carol Marra has been designing sustainable and climate-resilient single and multi-residential homes and masterplans for more than 20 years. Now, she has summarised her learnings in a new toolkit for homeowners. The toolkit, aptly titled Design for Climate, Design for Change, addresses…
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