Beth Wilson, Director, Wilson Architects, and the landscape architect responsible for some of Brisbane’s best- loved and most memorable landscapes, has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship from the Australian Institute of Architect’s Queensland Chapter. Chapter President, Richard Kirk said, “This is the first time a landscape architect has received this…
At NGV International six monumental rock columns entwined with native flora will reach skywards in Federation Court from Friday 27 March, 2015. Informed by Federation Court’s bluestone architecture and its former history as an outdoor sculpture garden, Rock Melt is a major new commission by Sydney-based artist Jamie North. Constructed…
Architecture for Collective Impact Johannes Molander Pedersen and Morten Rask Gregersen of NORD Architects will share an architect residency based in Sydney, awarded by the Australian Institute of Architects Foundation. NORD’s work represents a contemporary Scandinavian approach with numerous prize-winning projects, and will present only one joint lecture. Hear them…
​Artists around Australia and the globe are invited to showcase their up-cycling skills and creativity as part of an Australian Âfirst exhibition to celebrate the launch of acclaimed sustainability book Retrash and Earth Day​’​s 45th anniversary. The exhibition is being curated by Retrash author Nathan Devine, supported by Etsy, the…
The City of Melbourne’s Creative Spaces program has established a new studio at Carlton Connect Initiative’s (CCI) LAB-14. The studio positions artists amongst researchers and organisations addressing issues of sustainability and resilience. Melbourne artists Debbie Symons and Jasmine Targett are the first Artists-in-Residence at the new Creative Spaces: Carlton Connect…
A raft of new design initiatives, including the creation of the Department of Contemporary Design and Architecture was revealed today by the National Gallery of Victoria. The department, the first of its kind for an art gallery in Australia, will spearhead the gallery’s vision to become a leading international hub…
Buiksloterham, a district in the North of Amsterdam, is being developed by public and private parties into a neighbourhood with high circular ambitions. The area – currently a post-industrial zone with large brownfields – will be developed with an addition of 3,500 new homes and 200,000 m2 of office space…
Curtin University has been awarded Australia’s first 5 Star Green Star – Communities rating by the Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA). Western Australia’s largest university received the rating for its Master Plan, which will see its Bentley Campus developed into a ‘city of innovation’. Green Star – Communities is…
Small is Beautiful is a documentary following four people as they build their own tiny houses in pursuit of a mortgage free lifestyle, discovering that living tiny is about so much more than just the house. It is a revealing look into the tiny house movement, a grass roots response to…
In one of the most important milestones in the 139 year history of Royal Park, the site of the former Royal Children’s Hospital was today returned to parkland with the opening of a $5.5 million redevelopment by the City of Melbourne and the Victorian Government. Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews, Lord…
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