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The City of Melbourne resurfaces five city streets with recycled plastics

20 Nov, 2019

The City of Melbourne is using plastic previously destined for landfill – such as car bumper bars – to resurface five iconic city streets. Lord Mayor Sally Capp said five prominent Melbourne streets would be paved with asphalt made from recycled plastics. “The paving on these historically significant streets will…

Iconic Keith Haring Water Wall mural to be reimagined by the NGV

18 Nov, 2019

Celebrating 35 years since Keith Haring painted a temporary mural on NGV’s Water Wall – and coinciding with the world-exclusive exhibition Keith Haring | Jean-Michel Basquiat: Crossing Lines – the NGV will reimagine the untitled 1984 mural with a striking vinyl graphic displayed at the site of the original artwork…

2019 ArchiTeam Awards winners

14 Nov, 2019

ArchiTeam Cooperative’s Annual Awards program showcased the very best in architecture from Australia’s small, medium and emerging architects on Wednesday 13 November. ArchiTeam made some dramatic changes to how the awards fortnight exhibited over 140 entries, by collaborating with partner Big Plans Melbourne, the exhibition was a spectacular and certainly…

MPavilion 2019 opens

13 Nov, 2019

MPavilion 2019, designed by Australia’s only Pritzker Architecture Prize recipient Glenn Murcutt AO, opened today in the Queen Victoria Gardens. Internationally influential for his environmentally responsible designs with a distinctive Australian character, Murcutt’s MPavilion heralds a milestone in the architect’s fifty-year career as his first civic city design. Initiated and commissioned…

MINI LIVING – INVERT 3.0 Laneway Architecture

13 Nov, 2019

green magazine and MINI’s third exhibition, MINI LIVING – INVERT 3.0 was open to the public in November 2019. The exhibition marked the culmination of architects and RMIT architecture students’ experiments with the architectural potential of laneways. The architects’ drawings and models offer unique, creative and captivating interpretations of the…

MINI Portraits: Matt Gibson Architecture + Design

13 Nov, 2019

MINI LIVING – INVERT 3.0 will bring together architects and RMIT architecture students to explore the potential of our laneways. In the lead-up to the exhibition, we’ve asked participating architects to give us a tour of their favourite Melbourne laneway. Watch the video and read the transcript of Phil Burns…

MINI Portraits: Studio Edwards

11 Nov, 2019

MINI LIVING – INVERT 3.0 will bring together architects and RMIT architecture students to explore the potential of our laneways. In the lead-up to the exhibition, we’ve asked participating architects to give us a tour of their favourite Melbourne laneway. Watch the video and read the transcript of Ben Edwards…

The Sydney Edible Garden Trail 2020

11 Nov, 2019

In early March 2019, Bridget Kennedy visited the Blue Mountains Edible Garden Trail with a group of keen gardeners. Since the demise of the ABC Open Gardens scheme, she had been toying with the idea of creating an annual Garden Trail promoting sustainable living and growing your own food. The…

Fremantle Biennale launches with Australian premiere of award-winning light installation

8 Nov, 2019

On Friday 1 November 2019, the Fremantle Biennale launched the program for its second edition, UNDERCURRENT 19. Transforming the port city in Western Australia for 3 weeks (1-24), the Biennale will present work from over 40 international and Australian artists, architects and designers responding to the history, communities and landscape of the unique port city in…

Join us for Laneways: Architecture and Activation panel discussion

8 Nov, 2019

On Friday 15 November, green magazine invites you to attend an informal panel discussion with three architects participating in the MINI LIVING – INVERT 3.0 Laneway Architecture exhibition and the City of Melbourne. Laneways: Architecture and Activation will bring together Amy Hallett (Topology Studio), Ben Edwards (Studio Edwards), James Taylor…