Updates

Flowstate opens in Brisbane

30 Jan, 2018

Brisbane’s highly-anticipated new open-air pavilion and creative space Flowstate is now open to the community, with South Bank Corporation tonight unveiling a year-long program of free events to celebrate. “South Bank Corporation is delighted to unveil Flowstate, and to launch a year-long multi-arts program of free creative experiences marking our…

Summer blooms in Sydney

29 Jan, 2018

Summer blooms are brightening 14 of the city’s most frequented public spaces as thousands return to work in the CBD following the holiday period. The summer edition of the City of Sydney’s biannual Living Colour display is now underway – featuring more than 100,000 plants. Flower varieties including yellow marigold,…

Australia’s Best Cubby finalists announced

26 Jan, 2018

Youth homelessness prevention organisation Kids Under Cover have released the first images of the five cubbies competing for the title of Australia’s Best Cubby. The cubbies will be auctioned as part of the annual Cubby House Challenge® at the Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show in March 2018. Five creative…

Hidden Design Festival 2018

24 Jan, 2018

Hidden Design Festival will open a selection of designer gardens for a one-off public viewing over a single weekend, 10-11 March 2018. Held in Sydney, Hidden Design Festival showcases a new and diverse range of outdoor spaces created by some of Sydney’s best known and award-winning landscape designers as well…

Asia Pacific Architecture Forum 2018

24 Jan, 2018

An initiative of State Library of Queensland and Architecture Media, the 2018 Asia Pacific Architecture Forum will return to Brisbane from 10 to 23 March, 2018. The program will feature a range of free and ticketed events, including exhibitions, installations, symposia, lectures and workshops, which will engage architecture and design…

Sydney Design Festival highlights announced

22 Jan, 2018

A raft of international speakers and a new design exhibition have been announced for the Sydney Design Festival, running from 2 – 11 March 2018 at Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences and associated venues throughout Greater Sydney. Curated and produced by MAAS around the theme of Call to Action,…

True Beauty

19 Jan, 2018

In 2013 Geoff Harris purchased a multi-million-dollar property in Collingwood, Cromwell Manor, and gifted its use for five dollars a year, for 50 years, to STREAT – an incredible social enterprise combatting homelessness by providing professional training in the hospitality industry to disadvantaged youth. And with a motto like “Tastes…

UNSW Sydney signs solar energy agreement

17 Jan, 2018

UNSW Sydney has announced a tripartite arrangement with contract partners Maoneng Australia (Maoneng) and Origin Energy (Origin) for an offsite Solar PV Corporate Power Purchase Agreement (Solar PPA). The 15-year solar supply agreement with Maoneng is the first of its kind in Australia – bringing together a retailer, developer and…

The Colonies

15 Jan, 2018

The Colonies is the latest instalment of a series of ongoing art projects by Ben Morieson using sunflowers as a medium to explore the delineation between the public and the private space. Seeking to define what Spanish architect Ignasi de Sola Morales labeled ‘vague terrain’, this project is seeking to…

MPavilion’s program extended

11 Jan, 2018

Due to popular demand, MPavilion’s February 2018 program of free cultural and design events, presented under the pavilion designed by renowned international architects Rem Koolhaas and David Gianotten of OMA, has been extended to 11 February 2018. Concluding MPavilion’s 2017–18 season on Sunday 11 February is a special film screening…