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Winners of 2018 National Landscape Architecture Awards announced

16 Oct, 2018

The Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) has announced the winners of the 2018 National Landscape Architecture Awards. The awards recognised 38 winners over 14 categories, celebrating leading projects of all sizes across Australia’s regional and metropolitan areas.  The annual awards program acknowledges how landscape architects are helping to shape…

In conversation with Carme Pinós, architect of MPavilion 2018

15 Oct, 2018

“Architecture constructs society,” Carme Pinós tells me. “For that reason, [architects] have a strong responsibility to society. I love this responsibility,” she notes, with palpable sincerity. The lauded Barcelona-based architect of Estudio Carme Pinós has come to Melbourne for the official opening of MPavilion 2018. The fifth incarnation in an ongoing series of annual…

Hecker Guthrie awarded Rigg Design Prize 2018

14 Oct, 2018

Melbourne design practice Hecker Guthrie has been awarded the prestigious Rigg Design Prize, the highest accolade for Australian contemporary design. The $30 000 triennial prize was announced at the opening of the National Gallery of Victoria’s Rigg Design Prize 2018 exhibition, which features bespoke, purpose-built interior rooms by ten shortlisted…

ExLab: Experimental Furniture Exhibition

13 Oct, 2018

The ExLab: Experimental Furniture Exhibition showcases innovative and experimental furniture pieces designed and made by graduate students at the Melbourne School of Design, in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne. This year, the design brief challenged students to design a small furniture piece using…

Winner of 2018 Land Art Generator design competition announced

12 Oct, 2018

Today the Land Art Generator awarded a local Melbourne team first prize in their fifth biennial design competition. Sponsored by the State of Victoria as part of their Renewable Energy Action Plan, the competition calls for large-scale works of public art that also produce clean energy. The Land Art Generator…

MINI Profiles: Habitat 67

11 Oct, 2018

INVERT 2.0 MINI LIVING – BUILT BY ALL is the second collaboration between green magazine, MINI LIVING, the City of Melbourne and RMIT, in the form of an exhibition and talk series which will be presented in October 2018. This year we’re exploring multi-residential design and development, a subject of increasing…

NGV’s Designing Women exhibition

9 Oct, 2018

The NGV’s Designing Women exhibition will highlight the dynamic and critical force of female designers in shaping contemporary design culture with works including Oru Chair by UAE’s Aljoud Lootah, Yang Metamorphosis designed by Carlotta de Bevilacqua for Artemide and Horse Lamp by Swedish design studio Front Design. Drawn from the NGV Collection, Designing Women will explore lighting, furniture, object and fashion…