The Australian Passive House Association (APHA) and Passive Place invite the media to the launch of Australia’s first-ever Ice Box Challenge. Between 22nd February and 3rd March, Melbourne residents and visitors are invited to learn about the Passive House Standard— the world’s most energy-efficient building design standard that requires almost…
The formidable line-up of landscape gardeners headlining The Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show Presented by Lawn Solutions Australia has been unveiled, giving a taste of the outdoor spectacle taking place at the Royal Exhibition Building, from March 27 – 31. Initial 2019 garden plans illustrate a shared environmental awareness…
Sydney Design Festival will run from 1 – 10 March 2019 across Sydney. This year’s theme – Accessing Design – is a challenge to designers to expand upon and experiment with their creative practice through cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural collaboration. Curated and produced by the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences (MAAS), this year’s…
Architect Julian Brenchley, designer behind the popular television series, The Block, will be speaking at Melbourne’s Gasworks Arts Park Thursday 7 March as part of the venue’s Inside Art and Architecture series of monthly talks. Involved with The Block since its inception, Julian’s most recent transformation was The Gatwick Hotel…
The Naomi Milgrom Foundation today announced the commission for the sixth annual MPavilion has been awarded to Pritzker Prize-winning Australian architect Glenn Murcutt AO. The announcement comes as MPavilion 2018, designed by Barcelona’s Carme Pinós of Estudio Carme Pinós closed on Sunday 17 February, having received an overwhelming public response with 133 000+ visitors and 520 free events over 139 days. Naomi Milgrom…
Kaldor Public Art Projects and Carriageworks today announced Asad Raza will create Kaldor Public Art Project 34, a new work presented free to the public from 3 until 19 May 2019. The project represents the first time the New York-based artist has presented his work in Australia. Raza’s project will take place…
Lowanna College in Victoria has been named a Global High School finalist in the prestigious global sustainability award, the Zayed Sustainability Prize. The prize for the regional winner, Muntinlupa High School in the Philippines, is US$100 000. Lowanna had proposed a broad student leadership program for sustainability through projects that…
In 2019, Australia’s leading annual international design event, Melbourne Design Week, will present its largest program to date, with more than 200 events including 47 exhibitions, 14 film screenings, 77 talks, 22 tours and 18 workshops across Melbourne and – for the very first time – Geelong from 14 –…
“The Discipline of the Existing” is the title that architects Flores & Prats chose for their lecture that kicked off the Utzon Lecture Series for 2019, at UNSW Faculty of Built Environment in Sydney, on Wednesday January 23, 2019. The lecture focused on the design process of the Sala Beckett…
Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore has announced that the City of Sydney has been selected to host a major international climate conference in 2020. The C40 Women4Climate Conference is an initiative of the C40, a network of 94 of the world’s largest cities, representing more than 700 million people worldwide….
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