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…
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…
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,…
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 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 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…
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…
Carriageworks today unveiled a major new commission by renowned German artist Katharina Grosse of a site-specific installation representing the third in the Schwartz Carriageworks series of major international projects. The world premiere of the work titled The Horse Trottted Another Couple of Metres, Then it Stopped is presented free to…
After graduating from university, industrial designer Liam Mugavin spent four years working in Japan before returning to Sydney to establish his practice in 2013. His studio focuses on highly conceptual and crafted design, and in 2017 was selected out of 86 applicants to undertake a furniture project for the new…
Exchange your home grown or gleaned produce to be crafted into a free four-course lunch on Sunday 11 February. The Great Local Lunch is a feature National Sustainable Living Festival event running for its fifth year. In 2018 the Great Local Lunch is jumping on the waste stream and inviting…
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