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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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