The pioneering Melbourne Renewable Energy Project is gathering momentum with a tender for new renewable energy advertised nationally today. Lord Mayor Robert Doyle said the tender shows the project to develop a large scale renewable energy plant is on track. “The City of Melbourne has united a group of large…
Curtin University has partnered with the Low Carbon Living CRC, Western Power, LandCorp, the City of Fremantle and Solar Balance to develop what researchers believe will be the world’s first zero carbon neighbourhood using solar photovoltaic (PV) and battery storage technologies. A $1 million grant from the Australian Renewable Energy…
Victorians who have shown leadership in sustainability and a commitment to improving the environment are encouraged to enter the 2016 Premier’s Sustainability Awards and share their stories. Entries are now open for state and local government, businesses, organisations, community groups, and individuals who are leading the way in sustainable innovation…
A new cultural program launching in Melbourne next month sets out to celebrate one of architecture’s most derided and misunderstood movements. Running May 6 – 29, Brutalist Block Party is a series of workshops, talks, dining events and social situations held at 122 Roseneath Street – a vast, concrete-fronted warehouse…
Featuring curators Christine Leu, Graham Teeple and Alan Webb, The Gladstone Hotel’s 4th annual Grow Op exhibit returns from April 21st – 24th, 2016. Grow Op is not your typical garden show. This four-day festival will transform the hotel’s second floor with 30+ immersive installations that take on urbanism, environmental…
The Melbourne social circuit has few secrets left, but the DADo Film Society, screening architecture films both wonderful and obscure, is one well worth discovering. The 2016 program celebrates three exciting partnerships with some of Melbourne’s keenest advocates of good design. Session 3 builds upon Assemble Papers’ focus on Small Footprint Living with…
88 Angel St is the first ever green roof terrace frontage in Australia. NSW Minister for Planning, Rob Stokes, will officially open the completed development at 6pm on 14 April 2016 at a Grand Opening party. The three brand new eco-houses feature native living roofs, solar power, motorized retractable glass roofs,…
Planet Planet  is a two-hour workshop created to discover what is inside every fruit and vegetable in your imagination. The workshop will start with art and design appreciation, followed by a guided creative meditation, fruit and vegetable carving technique demonstration, a mystery box challenge that unlocks your imagination, and finally, you…
The 202020 Vision have recently partnered with Good Design Awards Australia to create a brand new stand-alone award category, called the 202020 Green Design Award. This category will honour and recognise businesses that produce projects, products or initiatives that make a significant contribution to more and better green space. The judges will be looking for candidates who demonstrate a greater…
The Chris Steele Scott Pavilion sits modestly by the lake in the Mount Lofty Botanic Gardens, 20 minutes’ drive out of Adelaide, South Australia. The project was initiated by the community based Mount Lofty Botanic Garden Support Group. Such a shelter had been envisaged in master-plans for the Garden, but…
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