The Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) have announced the National Landscape Architecture Awards for 2016, showcasing leading green, open and public spaces from around the country. Held annually, the awards highlight how landscape architecture can complement built environments to produce rejuvenated and reinvented spaces. AILA selected 40 state-level finalists…
MPavilion has unveiled the next wave of free cultural events to be presented in November and December 2016 under the handmade pavilion designed by acclaimed Indian architect Bijoy Jain of Studio Mumbai. Inspired by the role of design, architecture and creativity in a vibrant city, MPavilion’s program is highlighted by…
2016 marks the third edition of Cult’s annual ‘Chairity Project’, the esteemed charity event that invites leading Australian 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 choice. In…
Last week Bundanon Trust announced the six Australian architecture firms shortlisted for the Trust’s national competition to deliver a Masterplan to enliven the 1100-hectare property in regional New South Wales with a world-class creative learning centre, visitor hub, residential quarters and a gallery to house the $37.5 million Arthur Boyd…
This year’s Design Canberra festival will kick off with a keynote talk by architect Philip Vivian of Bates Smart at the award-winning Vibe Hotel at the Canberra Airport. Vivian has said the project sought to reflect Canberra’s DNA, resulting in a hotel crafted specifically for its location and context: “We…
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…
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