Updates

Competition to appoint Australian architecture team to design NGV Contemporary

2 Feb, 2021

The Victorian Government and the National Gallery of Victoria today launched a design competition to select an Australian architectural team to design the new purpose-built, twenty-first century gallery, NGV Contemporary. Located at 77 Southbank Boulevard, Melbourne, the new gallery will be dedicated to showcasing contemporary art, design, fashion and architecture…

Revealed: the best trees for shading hot Sydney school yards

1 Feb, 2021

As NSW students head back to the classroom to begin the 2021 school year, a Macquarie University project has identified the trees that can help make playgrounds cool for kids. Macquarie University’s Which Where Plant Project has identified trees that will make the best shade for Western Sydney school yards…

Think Brick Awards 2021: Elemental

29 Jan, 2021

In 2005, Think Brick embarked on a small project which engaged seven architects to deliver their visions of what a conceptual brick home of the future might look like. 15 years later, now with five main built project categories, and a prize pool of $60 000, they are very proud…

UPTOWN: an exhibition for our city announces February events

29 Jan, 2021

UPTOWN: an exhibition for our city being delivered by the City of Melbourne and Creative Directors Robert Buckingham and Fiona Scanlan, announced a program inspired by the role artists play in making Melbourne a “creative capital” and how artists contribute to the social, cultural, and economic life of the city….

An introductory workshop in sustainable furniture making

20 Jan, 2021

Come and experience a workshop like no other, take home your own piece of furniture made from materials which tell an exceptional story, learn some new skills and support the zero footprint movement. All skill sets welcome from complete beginner to experienced woodworker! Small classes of 6 participants with an…

Call for Ideas: Tiny Library 2021 Architecture competition

20 Jan, 2021

With the world constantly evolving, there is a ton of information being formulated out there. Human civilisation is expected to keep up with this change and evolve with this developing world to open up multiple possibilities for a better future. Despite all the information available around us, the only way…

Artists breathe new life into Sydney’s laneways

18 Jan, 2021

Artists interested in communities, urbanism and sustainability will breathe life into underused city spaces in a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, with four temporary artworks commissioned by the City of Sydney. As part of the City Art Laneways temporary public art program, have your fortune told by an interactive pink…

Environmental Film Festival Australia presents Summer of Change

11 Jan, 2021

You are invited to EFFA (Environmental Film Festival Australia) Presents: Summer of Change, the second of four seasonal programs taking place across 2020 and 2021. This season we celebrate all the visionaries, innovators and disruptors currently fighting to protect and preserve the integrity of our environment. With a program full…

Tree Story exhibition asks what we can learn from trees

5 Jan, 2021

Tree Story is an exhibition that brings together creative practices from around the world to create a ‘forest’ of ideas relating to critical environmental and sustainability issues. At its foundation – or roots – are Indigenous ways of knowing, recognition of trees as our ancestors and family and of Country being…