Volunteers can help expand Sydney’s green, cool canopy for National Tree Day by planting over 2,000 native seedlings at Jubilee Park in Glebe on Sunday 31 July. This year is Planet Ark’s 21st National Tree Day event and hundreds of Sydney-siders are expected to join the free event to restore…
Extensive renovations by Technē Architecture + Interior Design have transformed a Melbourne period home into a four-bedroom property with exemplary airtightness. Titled the Albert Park House, the renovation includes significant upgrades to the original double fronted Victorian home, which has been artfully integrated into a modern extension. Technē has designed…
The Naomi Milgrom Foundation today released the MPavilion 2016 design by renowned Indian architect Bijoy Jain of Studio Mumbai. Exploring ideas around handmade architecture and the craft of building at its most basic, bamboo, earth, stone and rope will be used to create a pavilion that is elemental and sensorial. Jain describes this process…
PEG office of landscape + architecture is an award-winning design and research office based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founding partners Karen M’Closkey and Keith VanDerSys will be in Melbourne as part of the MSD Dean’s Lecture Series, where they will present a lecture and host an exhibition of their firm’s work….
The director of the Art Gallery of NSW, Dr Michael Brand, will be joined by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa from the multiple award-winning Tokyo-based architectural firm SANAA on July 27, to discuss the ideas and creative vision informing the design for the Gallery’s new building — the Sydney Modern…
The word ‘lore’ refers to a body of traditional knowledge, typically passed on by word of mouth. So, how does the concept of lore relate to architecture? At a Melbourne School of Design lecture on July 26, celebrated Indian architect, Bijoy Jain, will discuss how the concept of lore is…
Australian projects have been awarded at The Chicago Athenaeum Museum 2016 International Architecture Awards after 370 projects were shortlisted. The winning entries from Australian architects included the Walumba Elders Centre by Iredale Pedersen Hook. The centre came about when the firm was tasked with rebuilding community facility buildings and the old Walumba Aged Care…
Pierre Roelofs and Cindy-Lee Davies of Lightly are collaborating on the latest iteration of “Dessert Studies”, a series of inspired dining experiences in Melbourne, for three nights in July. The project is all about starting conversations, inspiring creativity and having a bit of fun. For the past seven years, Roelofs…
It’s taken them a month longer than they expected by the guys behind Uro Publications have finally opened their new specialty bookshop focusing on all things design and built environment. “Established in 2009, Uro began life as a specialist publisher of architecture and design books. In 2016, in the face…
Experience the future of design and manufacturing technology at Out of Hand: Materialising the Digital, an exhibition exclusive to the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, curated by the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences (MAAS) and the Museum of Arts and Design, New York (MAD). Opening on 3 September 2016, this cutting-edge exhibition…
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