Melbourne’s DENFAIR event is a proverbial melting pot of contemporary design that brings together leading and emerging figures in the industry. This year, there’s a promising new addition to the program by the name of Front | Centre. The initiative invites five representing entities from across Australia to feature the…
Celebrated artist and sculptor of nature, Tracey Deep, thrills us yet again with her latest body of work entitled ‘Under the Sea’. This work is a celebration of the beauty of the underwater world that we all take for granted – paying homage to the incredible patterns, shapes, textures and…
The Naomi Milgrom Foundation today announced a new initiative LIVING CITIES FORUM 2017 bringing together leading international architects and design thinkers to investigate the definition of liveability and attempts to illustrate the image of a truly liveable city as viewed through a design lens. Taking place on 27 July influential…
Resolved: Journeys in Australian Design is presented by Australian Design Centre in collaboration with Workshopped, a design organisation nurturing and supporting designers in bringing their products to the marketplace. This major design exhibition showcases the winning designs of the past 12 annual ‘Workshopped’ exhibitions. Resolved: Journeys in Australian Design goes…
A large heritage office and a small sustainable workplace have taken home awards for sustainability at the 2017 Property Council of Australia / Rider Levett Bucknall Innovation and Excellence Awards. The spectacular refurbishment of one of Sydney’s most loved sandstone buildings, 5 Martin Place, has been rewarded with the Clean…
Like many Australians and as publishers of green magazine our family has been itching to rely less on grid electricity and shrink our electricity bills. We’re excited to see advancements in renewable energy technology and the plethora of new products for the “smart home”. Now, we are fortunate to use…
We all want to work somewhere nice, somewhere that has natural light rather than a million fluorescent bulbs burning our eyes. Unfortunately we can’t always get what we want, however a new trend paper from the Brookings Institution’s Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Initiative on Innovation and Placemaking, called “Innovation…
In issue 55 we look at four renovations. In Brisbane Nielsen Workshop & Morgan Jenkins Architecture extended the rear of a tiny cottage by a few metres and in doing so opened the once dark undercroft. In a small Sydney apartment Adriano Pupilli, removed walls and built a portal within a deep timber lined passage. Architecture…
Melbourne is a proud participant in the initiative ‘100 Resilience Cities – Pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation’ (100RC). Through this collaboration, Resilient Melbourne is working with Citymart, a 100RC Platform Partner, to explore solutions to one of Melbourne’s chronic stresses – increasing transport congestion and travel times, along with associated…
In joint partnership SJB and ASPECT Studios was commissioned by the City of Parramatta Council to create a Framework Plan for the Civic Link. The proposal is a new 500 meter long linear park that runs through the centre of the CBD on a north-south axis; beginning at the northern…
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