Not In My Backyard, the 2016 International Festival of Landscape Architecture is fast approaching, taking place in Canberra over four days from 27 – 30 October 2016. Canberra is one of the very few, fully planned cities in the world. The 2016 festival in Canberra will connect the public with landscape architects…
The Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) in collaboration with Street Furniture Australia, the ACT Government and In the City Canberra have created the #BackyardExperiment, a community initiative in Garema Place in Canberra to show how changing public spaces can bring out the best in the city and its people….
The Australian National Botanic Gardens and the Ian Potter Foundation congratulate the design team led by CHROFI on creating a breathtaking design for our Ian Potter National Conservatory. Five finalists were chosen from a national design competition with the design by architects CHROFI selected for their innovative, bold and environmentally-conscious…
Object Therapy is the latest project in Hotel Hotel’s Fix and Make program. An exhibition of 30 broken objects that have undergone therapy – treated and ‘creatively’ repaired by a designer or artist opened on Friday 14 October at Hotel Hotel. The aim of the project is to help us…
An exhibition of drawings, models and photographs from architectural firm Edition Office. Edition Office is an architecture studio based in Melbourne, Australia. Through the execution of its built work and research, the practice is creating an ongoing series of figures, relics, stories and relationships; all continuing a greater investigation into material & spatial practice. Edition…
The recipients of the 2016 Australian Urban Design Awards were announced at a ceremony in Melbourne on the evening of 13 October 2016. This year’s awards saw a high calibre of entries from across Australia’s cities, towns and communities. The 2016 jury were impressed by both the record number of entries and the…
Seventy-five emerging architects have been shortlisted for the 2017 Dulux Study Tour. The coveted travelling scholarship is awarded annually to five individuals, who are no more than ten years from graduation, for the contributions to architectural practice, education, design excellence and community involvement. In 2017, the will visit Prague, London…
A playful reinvention of the suburban car wash is the vision for the NGV’s 2016 Architecture Commission, designed by Melbourne-based M@ STUDIO Architects. Inspired by an existing car wash in Blackburn, the design reimagines a familiar destination and brings it into the unfamiliar surroundings of the NGV Garden at NGV International. Transforming…
One of Australia’s most anticipated independent designer shopping weekends, The Big Design Market, is returning to Melbourne from 2-4 December and has announced the addition of a Sydney event from 25-27 November. The Big Design Market caters to an audience who value originality, quality and ethically produced designs and also…
“Third places” – those that lie between work and home – provide important contact points in our modern urban society. They expand the room we have to live in and help us to relax, meet up with one another and increase our productivity. Freelancers, for example, often use cafés as…
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