Updates

Robin Boyd Foundation’s Walsh Street Archive Launches Online

30 Jul, 2022

Since 2014, a team of Robin Boyd Foundation volunteers have catalogued, researched, digitised, and conserved the Walsh Street Archive. The archive is now available to explore on Victorian Collections. The archive makes the culturally significant collection housed in Boyd’s 1958 family home accessible online and offers new insight into Boyd’s…

Gray Puksand to Host Adaptive Reuse Discussion for Open House Melbourne

29 Jul, 2022

Recycling, reducing and reusing has become common practice in modern society as we strive for environmental sustainability. Similarly, adaptive reuse of historic buildings – giving a disused or ineffective building a different purpose while retaining its heritage fabric – is increasingly emerging as a sustainable solution for meeting contemporary commercial…

Twenty Projects Shortlisted for 2022 World Architecture Festival’s WAFX Award

28 Jul, 2022

Twenty exemplary future projects which address major architectural issues facing society and the planet have been shortlisted for this year’s World Architecture Festival WAFX Awards. The 2022 WAFX shortlist celebrates international proposals which embrace cutting-edge design approaches to address major world issues ranging from tackling the climate emergency to building…

Ninth MPavilion Design Revealed: Materials Reimagined in Ground-Breaking New Design by all(zone) Thailand

18 Jul, 2022

The Naomi Milgrom Foundation has released the design for its ninth MPavilion 2022 by Bangkok-based architecture and design practice all(zone) led by internationally-acclaimed architect Rachaporn Choochuey: a striking canopied structure set to bring the Queen Victoria Gardens to life from Thursday 17 November 2022. Experimenting with materials and forms being…

Yuandang Bridge Wins International Chapter Architecture Medallion

9 Jul, 2022

A dynamic ribbon-like pedestrian bridge connecting two provinces in China has been awarded the International Chapter Architecture Medallion – the pre-eminent award for architecture – at this year’s Australian Institute of Architects International Chapter Architecture Awards. Brearley Architects + Urbanists BAU designed the Yuandang Bridge, a 586m walking and cycling…

New AGWA Exhibition—Media Space 1981-1986: Challenging Fictions of Cultural Identity

6 Jul, 2022

This exhibition presents documentation of the multi-disciplinary projects undertaken by Perth-based art collective Media-Space across its life-span, 1981-1986. Curated by Julian Goddard and founding member Paul Thomas, it sheds light on a period in Western Australian art when artists such as Judy Chambers, Anne Graham, Jeff Jones, Will Kohlen, Lindsay Parkhill, Neil Sullivan,…