The Victorian Chapter of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) is calling for increased investment in green infrastructure at this year’s state election to improve life expectancy and liveability for Melbournians. AILA’s Victorian Chapter has released a state election campaign statement with the president calling on all parties to…
LAVA’s design for the German Pavilion Expo 2020 Dubai is a vertical campus of nature and technology, taking cues from the local architecture and Germany’s history of outstanding lightweight pavilion design. Demonstrating the Expo theme, everything from intelligent use of local climatic conditions to materials reuse to construction is sustainable….
MPavilion today announced its December program of free cultural events to take place in the Queen Victoria Gardens under the celebrated pavilion designed by Carme Pinós of Barcelona’s Estudio Carme Pinós. Highlighting women in leadership and digital technologies, international guests include Dr Elizabeth Churchill, director of User Experience at Google USA; Gabi…
No piece of furniture has attracted the attention of designers, architects and artists alike as has the chair. The chair is closely related to the shape of the human body, it is the depiction of our body and has arms, legs, feet and a back. The chair has assumed a…
The Urban Land Institute (ULI) has announced the winner of its 2018 Urban Innovation Ideas Competition for young professionals and students with members of Mirvac’s design team taking out the top prize for their submission ‘Reflective Lane’. The 2018 Competition called for innovative ideas to rejuvenate the north-west corner of…
Issue 64 hits the stands from November 8 – subscribe here. The projects in this issue remind us that architecture is reciprocal; it gives back what one puts in. The care and consideration of architects and designers is rewarded in each and every project in our annual offices feature. Our cover…
Devastated when the longstanding bookshop at the Institute of Architects in Tusculum closed its doors in 2016 director of SJB Adam Haddow has since entertained the notion of a bookshop of his own. “Architext had been serving the architectural community from that site in Potts Point for decades, with Anne…
From the rugged Tasmanian coast to the soaring skyscrapers of Spring Street, the winners of this year’s Australian Institute of Architects’ National Architecture Awards have shown how a defined sense of place, commitment to sustainability and professional ingenuity continue to drive innovation and transformation in Australian architectural practice. The winners…
The 24-metre tall installation is designed to look like a neatly arranged cemetery, with 2255 spheres in all shades of orange to hold the ‘ashes’ of wasted orange peels. These round ‘orange urns’ are made from 120 kilograms of ocean plastic remnants collected from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Produced…
Spain’s Alvaro Catalán de Ocón recalls the creative journey shared by the PET Lamp project and the Northern Territory’s Ramingining weavers that culminated in an installation for the NGV Triennial. Founded in 2011, the PET Lamp project has taken Spanish designer Alvaro Catalán de Ocón and his co-designers to South…
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