Updates

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…

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…