A new play facility has arrived at Melbourne’s Fitzroy Adventure Playground. It’s not a slide, nor is it a set of monkey bars. It’s something very different. This playscape installation is titled Coal Flowers. The commanding and intriguing structure accommodates 25 solar panels, which generate and utilise renewable energy for…
There’s only one month left before the Naomi Milgrom Foundation’s 2017 Living Cities Forum. Hailing from Melbourne, Rotterdam, London, Hong Kong, Barcelona, and Los Angeles, the City Futures Forum 2017 brings leading urban thinkers to Melbourne to consider the factors that determine a healthy and vibrant city, and questions how the…
A “much loved community facility” and a home nestled deep in the Daintree are among winners in the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2017 Queensland State Architecture Awards announced in Brisbane on Friday 23 June. The Sunshine Coast University Hospital, by Architectus Brisbane and HDR Rice Daubney as Sunshine Coast Architects,…
The New Architects Podcast (NAP) is an endeavour from New Architects Melbourne (NAM), a volunteer-based group which, since 2011, has been curating informal architectural events in Melbourne. Their purpose across all that they do is to provide a platform for up-and-coming architectural practices and industry related professionals to present their…
Diébédo Francis Kéré, the award-winning architect from Gando, Burkina Faso, has designed the Serpentine Pavilion 2017, responding to the brief with a bold, innovative structure that brings his characteristic sense of light and life to the lawns of Kensington Gardens. Kéré, who leads the Berlin-based practice Kéré Architecture, is the seventeenth…
The Naomi Milgrom Foundation has revealed the design of the 2017 MPavilion by Rem Koolhaas and David Gianotten of international practice Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). Taking its cues from the ancient ampitheatre, MPavilion 2017 blurs the lines between inside and outside in a skilful yet empathetic manipulation of the surrounding landscape…
An ambitious, sculptural and dramatic residence has taken out the Premier Award at the 2017 Australian Interior Design Awards. With inventive workspaces, distinguished public exhibits and state-of-the-art facilities amongst the awarded projects, the future of Australian interior design is in safe hands. On Friday 9 June, the 14th annual Australian…
The annual Open House Melbourne Weekend 2017 Program was launched on June 15 at the RMIT New Academic Street precinct, celebrating the organisation’s 10th Anniversary. On Saturday 29 and Sunday 30 July, over 200 buildings around Melbourne will open their doors to the public. 84 new buildings have been added to the…
A bold new City of Sydney plan to ‘Leave Nothing to Waste’ will introduce nation leading new residential waste collection streams to increase recycling and set a path to zero waste. Lord Mayor Clover Moore said the game changing plan would redefine waste as a valuable resource, instead of landfill….
Brisbane-based Conrad Gargett received international recognition at the European Healthcare Design Awards held in London this week. After being shortlisted for ‘Design Research’, the Queensland firm was highly commended for a research paper on its Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital project. A project Conrad Gargett was commissioned for the architecture, landscape…
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