A ground-breaking Indigenous design charter has taken out the highest design honour in Victoria receiving the 2018 Victorian Premier’s Design Award of the Year. The annual awards celebrate the state’s best and brightest designers and innovators across categories including architectural, product and industrial, communications, digital and service design. The Jury…
Green magazine has invited architects and RMIT students to respond to a brief for a hypothetical urban village on a prominent site adjacent to the Queen Victoria Market. The urban village brief explores the topic of urban density and multi-residential development. The second Australian-based MINI LIVING exhibition, INVERT 2.0 MINI…
Dr Karl Kruszelnicki, War on Waste’s Craig Reucassel and other experts on sustainable living will inspire the masses at the Eco-Living Expo, held at the Randwick Community Centre this Sunday 16 September, starting at 9am. “The Eco-Living Expo is designed to be a place where people can make changes to…
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…
Spanning 10 days in October, Sydney Craft Week puts the spotlight on the city’s incredible craft scene. In the second year of the festival, Sydney Craft Week is bigger than ever, with 89 venues across 48 suburbs, including ·      109 workshops, ·      47 exhibitions and ·      200+ events total An…
The Retreat at Pumphouse Point is nestled into the bush at the edge of Tasmania’s World Heritage Lake St Claire. The prefabricated structure, which was partially built off-site before being transported to its final spot, is comprised of a metal frame, clad with Tasmanian timbers both externally and internally, while…
In an Australian first, the City of Melbourne has partnered with the University of Melbourne to deliver a brand new course dedicated to the understanding and protection of urban forests. Deputy Lord Mayor Arron Wood said the inaugural Australian School of Urban Forestry will explore how cities can continue to enjoy the…
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…
The NYC-based tiny home company Klein, founded in 2017 by designer Soren Rose, has announced its tiny home concept enlisting award-winning architects globally to re-think small dwellings, starting with the 180-square-foot A45 Nordic Edition. Designed by the NYC, London and Copenhagen-based architects BIG, the first A45 prototype is constructed in…
Founder, Executive and Artistic Director of the Sherman Centre for Culture and Ideas (SCCI), Dr Gene Sherman AM today announced the full programme details for its inaugural SCCI Architecture Hub 2018 with a notable line up of international and local speakers exploring architecture and the built environment. “Following a sold…
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