The City of Melbourne and the Victorian Government will plant 150 000 trees, shrubs and grasses in an ambitious project to green our city and respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. Lord Mayor Sally Capp said the revegetation project will create habitat, support biodiversity and create jobs. “We will provide jobs…

Aussie households can now have their unwanted old clothes, shoes and textiles picked up from home – at a desired time convenient to them – to be recycled. The streamlined self-service digital textile collection service has been launched by leading parcel delivery service CouriersPlease (CP) and sustainable sock company Manrags. Off the back…

Louis Kahn famously held conversations with materials. He encouraged design students to ask, ‘Tell me brick, what do you want to be, brick?’ Kahn wanted his students to see the limitations – and especially the potential – of materials, and to use them appropriately. The Arkadia development, at its core,…

Millennials and Gen Z will put sustainability first when living in and building their future homes, according to new research released by Allianz. We can expect young Australians to deconstruct the family home model as we know it: outdoor and indoor living will be combined; an eclectic, new interior decorating…

Internationally celebrated Canberra-based glass maker Kirstie Rea has today been announced as the 2020 DESIGN Canberra designer-in-residence. Rea was commissioned to create a new work that responds to the festival’s 2020 theme of care. The glass sculpture will be exhibited during the annual three-week event, presented across the nation’s capital from 9 until 29 November,…

In the lead-up to the virtual weekend announced for the 25th and 26th July, digitising these significant spaces in a time where physical movement is limited means that the 2020 program will provide an exciting opportunity to celebrate one of the world’s most liveable cities and explore our city like…

The NSW Government is inviting registered architects from around Australia to enter their designs for a new Pier Pavilion at Watermans Cove in Barangaroo South. Organised by Infrastructure NSW, the competition will involve two stages. The first stage, opening on Tuesday 23 June, will be an open and anonymous ideas…

The Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) has announced the winners of the 2020 NSW Landscape Architecture Awards at a virtual ceremony. The awards acknowledged 33 exemplar projects over 14 categories, celebrating leading projects of all sizes across regional and metropolitan New South Wales. AILA NSW Awards Jury Chair Sara…

Private electric car share schemes, guest apartment share schemes and potentially the largest private community energy network in Queensland are just a few of the initiatives master developer Sekisui House Australia is planning for Ripley Town Centre, as detailed in a recently released, in-depth vision paper. The paper highlights the…