Updates

New Glass Prize Announced

10 Nov, 2015

JamFactory CEO Brian Parkes announced this week the introduction of the FUSE Glass Prize, a juried, non-acquisitive, AU$20,000 cash prize for established artists residing in Australia or New Zealand who work in the field of glass. An additional prize acknowledging new talent, comprising of AU$2,500 cash and a professional development residency at the…

National Architecture Award winners

5 Nov, 2015

The 2015 winners of the Australian Institute of Architects’ National Architecture Awards have been announced at a special ceremony in Brisbane on Thursday 5 November. 42 projects shared a total of 46 national honours in the coveted Awards program spanning 14 diverse categories. The jury, chaired by the Institute’s Immediate…

The Chairity Project

5 Nov, 2015

The Chairity Project 2015 is the second edition of Cult’s esteemed charity event that invites leading Australian and New Zealand creatives to reinvent an iconic chair design. Each creative is given complete freedom to reinvent the chair which is exhibited and auctioned off to a charity of the creative’s own…

Issue 46

2 Nov, 2015

Issue 46 looks at joinery, for space saving and craftsmanship. Our cover house is a cave-like retreat on NZ’s South Island. Also inside, renovations by Caroline Pidcock in Sydney and Foong + Soorman in Melbourne and a new house on 100-square-metres by Levesque and Derrick in Brisbane. Our gardens include…

Laminex 2015 DIA Design Awards

28 Oct, 2015

With a long history of sought after design events and celebrations, the Design Institute of Australia South Australian branch and fresh new council were proud to stage a fabulous awards evening at Tenth & Gibson studios with long term partner of 24 years Laminex on the 17 October. Enthusiastically attended…

Intergrain launches their Urban Timber Project

28 Oct, 2015

Emerging landscape and design professionals are invited to explore their creativity using timber in a new design competition, launched by premium Australian woodcare brand, Intergrain. Intergrain, in partnership with the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA), is launching the national design competition as a challenge to the new generation of…

Open Garden Party Fundraiser

27 Oct, 2015

Brighton resident Maxine Lynch has generously offered to open the gate to her beloved garden one last time before selling her home, in order to raise funds for local charity St Kilda Mums. Maxine’s garden, a Brighton treasure, has been lovingly established over 44 years and features Grevilleas, Gardenias, Manchurian…

Designer Notes with Anthony Chan

26 Oct, 2015

Anthony Chan of Chan Architecture shares a project on AWS’s Designer Notes series.Thornbury Artist’s Studio is an artist’s studio in the backyard of an existing house. The brief was to create a beautifully detailed, creative space for painting and sculpturing that would encourage and inspire creativity.  

Wade Institute’s Passivhaus building

21 Oct, 2015

The next generation of innovators will soon have a new place to call home when The Wade Institute opens its doors in 2016 and welcomes the inaugural class undertaking the University of Melbourne’s Master of Entrepreneurship. Designed to be as agile as the minds of its users, the space will…