green magazine and V-ZUG invited Cam Hines from Southern Seagreens and chef Emily Salkheld to talk about and demonstrate the harvesting and cooking of seaweed at V-ZUG Studio Melbourne. Cam presented an engrossing overview of how three friends have grown a business on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula to propagate golden kelp…
Snøhetta, in collaboration with A49 Architects, has completed Cloud 11 in Bangkok — a 250,000 m² mixed-use urban regeneration project featuring Thailand’s largest elevated creative park and setting a new benchmark for ecological and community-led citymaking in Southeast Asia. Cloud 11 is Snøhetta’s most extensive urban regeneration project in Asia,…
The new Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick building, designed by global paediatric design experts Billard Leece Partnership (BLP) and incorporating Australia’s first Children’s Comprehensive Cancer Centre, has welcomed its first patients, marking a transformative step forward in children’s healthcare. The state-of-the-art facility, developed in partnership with Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network, Children’s…
Potter Museum of Art Announces Ambitious New Exhibition: A Velvet Ant, a Flower and a Bird The Potter Museum of Art has unveiled A velvet ant, a flower and a bird, an ambitious exhibition curated by internationally renowned curator Chus MartÃnez. Opening on 19 February and running until 6 June…
Savers® is hitting the runway this February as an official partner of the 2026 PayPal Melbourne Fashion Festival, unveiling a bold new fashion showcase that reimagines pre-loved garments on Australia’s biggest style stage. The partnership will see Savers® present the NEW AGAIN: METAMORPHOSIS RUNWAY x Savers® – a visionary runway…
Join the UK’s Grand Designs presenter and Australia’s favourite architecture advocate when they reunite for intimate shows in architecturally significant venues After years of friendship and a shared obsession with architecture and design, Kevin McCloud and Tim Ross are taking their banter and big ideas on the road – and,…
A pioneering urban greening approach transforming Australian cities into vibrant and biodiverse spaces has been released to the public, empowering home gardeners and land managers with over a decade of research and knowledge in native plant design and management. Developed at the University of Melbourne, ‘Woody Meadows’ are redefining how…
The Australian Tapestry Workshop has announced Troy Emery + COX Architecture as the winner of the 2025 Tapestry Design Prize, with their collaborative work Longing (Camilla) selected from an impressive field of finalists. Chosen by a distinguished Jury of design leaders — Sally Evans (Nexus Designs), Cassie Hansen (InteriorsAU) and…
The Design Institute of Australia (DIA) proudly announces the appointment of Simone LeAmon as its new Chief Executive Officer. The Design Institute of Australia (DIA) is thrilled to welcome Simone LeAmon as its new Chief Executive Officer. Long regarded as the country’s peak voice for design, the DIA plays a…
Abbotsford Convent will present We Are Exploding, a major new exhibition by award-winning artist Emily Parsons-Lord, from 14 to 23 November 2025 in the Magdalen Laundry. Exploring air as both material and metaphor, We Are Exploding will invite audiences to experience the climate crisis through sight, sound and sensation. Across…
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