The Australian Institute of Architects Victorian Chapter has announced the shortlist for the 2016 Victorian Architecture Awards. Following presentations of all 198 entries in the program in March, 14 juries carried out an intensive schedule of site visits and have shortlisted 70 individual projects across 15 categories. Across all categories…
Sustainability expert and award-winning Italian architect Mario Cucinella is in New Zealand and Australia this month (16-24 May) to discuss his theory of Creative Empathy. Creative Empathy is a vision for sustainable building where the relationship between architecture and engineering becomes genetic, and sustainable features are no longer a fashionable accessory….
New York City’s annual citywide celebration of design kicked off this week and runs from May 3 to May 17, 2016. Now in its fourth year, NYCxDESIGN highlights New York City’s diverse design community and its contributions to the vitality and economy of the five boroughs. “NYCxDESIGN has strengthened NYC’s image as…
The Australian Institute of Architects welcomes the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet’s Smart Cities Plan released at the Cities Summit in Melbourne on Friday 29 April. Professor Ken Maher, President Elect of the Institute congratulates the Hon Malcolm Turnbull MP and Assistant Minister for Cities and Digital Transformation, the…
The Australian Institute of Architects’ highest honour, the Gold Medal, has been awarded to the founding directors of ARM Architecture at the Australian Achievement in Architecture Awards. ARM, based in Melbourne and Perth, are known for their contemporary, often daring, sometimes controversial designs. As Australian Institute of Architects National President…
For the first time in DesignBUILD’s 30 year history, event organisers Diversified Communications have teamed up with two leading Victorian universities to offer students the opportunity to be involved in producing the country’s leading event for the architecture, building, construction and design communities. Under the new initiative DesignBUILD Raw, students…
Leaders of the profession have been honoured at the 2016 Australian Achievement in Architecture Awards announced at a special ceremony at the Adelaide Oval on Friday 29 April. The recipients, from students to stalwarts, were rewarded for their ongoing dedication to architecture across a range of activities including education, sustainability…
As part of Superlocalstudio’s 2016 Sweet Nature program, Plant Planet is a zero waste creative collaboration that works to strengthen our connection with nature and explore our skills and imagination. Every plant is beautiful and full of possibility but we can only see it when we are curious, experimental, open…
Projects ranging from a brightly coloured bike path built from a bit of old motorway to a temporary installation at an inner-city church, from reworked heritage buildings to a new and already much-loved library, and from idyllic houses to a small mausoleum are among this year’s recipients of Auckland Architecture…
A new benchmark for colour usage has been set by the 2016 Dulux Colour Awards winners, announced on Thursday 28 April at Melbourne’s Myer Mural Hall. Boundaries were pushed across all categories, with colour used in daring yet cleverly considered ways to transform spaces. Judges were unanimously impressed by the…
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