The Australian Institute of Architects has revealed its shortlist for the prestigious 2022 National Architecture Awards. This year, 85 entries have been shortlisted across residential homes, public architecture, and contemporary infrastructure, celebrating the “diversity and quality” of Australia’s built environment professionals. The National Awards jury chair Tony Giannone said these projects…
The inaugural MECCA x NGV Women in Design Commission, opening on 6 October, will unveil a large-scale installation by world-leading Mexican architect Tatiana Bilbao exploring the concept of clothing as a symbol of protection, and the associated practices of domestic labour, gender and community. The MECCA x NGV Women in…
More than any other piece of furniture, the chair has been subject to the wildest of experimentations and ideas by makers, craftspeople, engineers and designers. In recognition of the world’s most used piece of furniture, Craft presents The Chair – a celebration of its many shapes and forms. One of the ultimate…
After four years of successful collaboration, green magazine and MINI are partnering once more to present the latest iteration of their ground-breaking sustainability initiative: INVERT 4.0. Continuing a legacy of design innovation and future-focused thinking, INVERT 4.0 will challenge us to consider how our cities will adapt to renewable energy…
This October, Craft Contemporary returns, bigger than ever in a unifying gathering of contemporary approaches to the handmade. Craft Contemporary (1–31 October) is Craft Victoria’s annual festival amplifying the practice of craft in a state-wide program of talks, live demonstrations, exhibitions and more. Contemporary expressions of craft are explored within…
For Sydney Design Week 2022, the Australian Design Centre hosts External Review, a collaboration between the American Hardwood Export Council, award winning designer Tom Fereday, furniture manufacturers Evostyle and upholstery specialists, Swiss Design. External Review follows, and celebrates, the entire design process from the source of the raw material through…
Since 2013, Cult’s in-house sustainability program, Cultivated, has offered refurbishment services for original mid-century modern furniture. For two days only, Cultivated’s master craftspeople have been invited into the Powerhouse workshop – a space rarely open to the public – to revive 10 of the museums’ Fritz Hansen Series 7 chairs…
Issue 87 comes out 5 September. Order on its own or as part of a subscription. In this, our annual Small Spaces issue, we look at five houses that have found solutions for using less resources and less valuable land; building smaller, subdividing, infilling and creating multigenerational homes are some…
Nature Festival, returning to South Australia from the 6th to the 16th of October, has released its full program of over 200 events to be hosted across South Australia, featuring an array of talks, arts, nature walks, workshops, adventure activities, open gardens and films to name only a few. The 2022 festival will…
For their major solo commission at West Space, interdisciplinary practitioners Joel Spring and Victoria Pham project vast and divergent insights into notions of the built environment, history and legacies of colonialism. West Space is thrilled to present TERRA: Memory + Soil, a landmark exhibition by Joel Spring and Victoria Pham….
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