Updates

SHELTER announces January 2021 content

30 Dec, 2020

SHELTER is the new home of inspiring design and architecture content. The global streaming service’s content encompasses everything from stories of design, to a deep dive into sustainability, history, and real-life aspirational stories. It offers audiences a range of fascinating ‘must-watch’ options from feature length films to television series; short…

Exciton Science Light Ideas Design Competition

29 Dec, 2020

Put your creativity and imagination to the test in the Light Ideas Design Competition, an initiative of the Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science. The first prize is $5000! What is Exciton Science? Funded by the federal government and based across five top universities, the Centre’s mission is to help Australia achieve a renewable energy future….

Reimagining Indigenous social housing

22 Dec, 2020

Aboriginal Housing Victoria, Australia’s largest registered Aboriginal Housing Agency, has teamed up with ClarkeHopkinsClarke Architects and Indigenous landscape designer Charles Solomon to transform ageing units on a 1000-square-metre site in suburban Dandenong as part of its first moves into multi-residential apartment development. Funded as part of the Victoria Government’s $2.7…

Issue 77

21 Dec, 2020

Issue 77 is out now. Order on its own or as part of a subscription to receive next week. As this challenging year draws to a close and a new one begins, we take the opportunity to celebrate the ingenuity of the human spirit as it shines through architecture and design. Our…

NGV Triennial opens

21 Dec, 2020

The NGV Triennial is a large-scale exhibition of international contemporary art, design and architecture that explores some of the most globally relevant and pressing issues of our time, including isolation, representation and speculation on the future. Featuring 86 projects by more than 100 artists, designers and collectives from more than…

MPavilion to take residency at Melbourne’s Parkade Carpark

10 Dec, 2020

The Naomi Milgrom Foundation, in collaboration with the City of Melbourne and Creative Victoria, announced that from 8 January 2021, MPavilion will take residency at the architecturally significant Parkade Carpark designed by Melbourne architect Peter McIntyre AO at 34 Little Collins Street, Melbourne. As an extraordinary contribution to the City of Melbourne’s recovery strategy, MPavilion Parkade, will be…

SHELTER announces December content

10 Dec, 2020

SHELTER is the new home of inspiring design and architecture content. The global streaming service’s content encompasses everything from stories of design, to a deep dive into sustainability, history, and real-life aspirational stories. It offers audiences a range of fascinating ‘must-watch’ options from feature length films to television series; short…

2020 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship winner announced

10 Dec, 2020

Artspace Sydney and Create NSW announced Kamilaroi/Gamilaraay artist Dennis Golding as the recipient of the 2020 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship (valued at $30 000), making him the first Aboriginal artist to win in the award’s over 100-year history. Golding’s winning work Cast in cast out reflects on his childhood…

UPTOWN: 24/7 outdoor art exhibition transforms the top of Bourke Street

9 Dec, 2020

UPTOWN: an art exhibition for our city transforms the top of Bourke Street into a 24/7 outdoor art gallery – a uniquely Melbourne experience that combines art, architecture, and streetscape by matching 26 contemporary artists with vacant shops, restaurants, store windows, building exteriors and laneways. Curated by Fiona Scanlan and…