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South Australian Architecture Awards winners announced

14 Jun, 2017

South Australia is fairly synonymous with wine, so it’s no surprise that wineries were some of the biggest winners at the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2017 South Australian Architecture Awards, held at the Adelaide Oval on Saturday 10 June. Denton Corker Marshall’s Penfolds Magill Estate received the Keith Neighbour Award for…

2017 Good Design Awards announced

14 Jun, 2017

The annual Good Design Awards is Australia’s most prestigious Awards for design and innovation with a proud history dating back to 1958. The Awards celebrate the best new products and services on the Australian market, excellence in architectural design, digital and communication design and reward emerging areas of design including…

Ovolo Nishi presents Porosity Kabari

13 Jun, 2017

Porosity Kabari, an exhibition by Australian object designer Trent Jansen, artist/architect Richard Goodwin and Indian design thinker Ishan Khosla, is presented by Ovolo Nishi. The exhibited pieces are the result of an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, collaborative project between the three. The project challenged them to produce furniture and object pieces over just…

Design Canberra Festival set to transform the capital

13 Jun, 2017

Craft ACT has announced the DESIGN Canberra Festival dates and theme for 2017. DESIGN Canberra 2017 will be inspired by the spirit of modernism, a celebration of the creativity, experimentation and optimism for which Canberra’s mid-century architecture is acclaimed. DESIGN Canberra offers an insight into the talent pool of makers…

Hassett Park takes home the 202020 Vision Green Design Award

13 Jun, 2017

Hassett Park in Campbell, ACT has been awarded the 202020 Vision Green Design Award at the Good Design Awards Ceremony held in Sydney last week. Jane Irwin Landscape Architecture and Hill Thalis Architecture + Urban Projects designed the grassy oasis; taking home the stand-alone award, which recognises and celebrates the…

New Castlemaine Eco Village Creates a Stir

10 Jun, 2017

Castlemaine is the home of a new eco village that is set to create new standards for sustainable living in Australia. Even before the official launch, Melbournians have been travelling up to Castlemaine to the informal Coffee Q&A sessions to learn more about this path-breaking new development. The Paddock Eco…

Clubhouse by Dowel Jones

9 Jun, 2017

Dowel Jones’ largest presentation to date, Clubhouse, has opened. Clubhouse is set within the large 450 square metre space of The Stables in North Melbourne. Open from the 7-12 June, the exhibition will see Dowel Jones present a multitude of new pieces set alongside their current products, as well as an interactive…

Denfair 2017 highlights

8 Jun, 2017

Denfair 2017 has officially begun. The eclectic showcase brings together designers from all industries, representing the zenith of creativity and innovation. Read on for a roundup of our favourite products and designers at Denfair this year. Tait has invited Adam Goodrum to create their new outdoor collection, Trace. The culmination…

Velce’s Active Stool to launch at Denfair

7 Jun, 2017

Velce’s Active Stool is being launched this week at Denfair in Melbourne 8-10 June as part of the Front Centre exhibit, representing New South Wales design. Anna and Ricardo, Velce’s founders, have spent the last two years researching sitting and seating and why ergonomic seating, despite the growing realisation that…

Marine Debris Bakelite Project

6 Jun, 2017

How would you like to purchase beautiful, functional, collectable objects, designed by some of the world’s best designers and clean up our oceans at the same time? Supercyclers’ Sarah K and Andrew Simpson have developed a new material created from 100 per cent recycled plastic collected from Australian beaches after…