CityTalks 2011: The Art of City Making

Challenge the way you think about cities with “The Art of City Making: How Imagination and Creativity Play Their Part” as part of the City of Sydney’s CityTalks 2011. This live discussion will feature guest speaker Charles Landry, an urbanist and passionate defender of the role imagination and creativity plays in developing cities and invigorating […]

Breaking the Barriers: Engineering Solutions to Ecological Problems

This Symposium has been tailored to cover all aspects of effective planning, design, construction, maintenance, research, monitoring and evaluation of wildlife mitigation measures around linear infrastructure. Topics will cater to both infrastructure and environmental practitioners.

Keynote Speakers:

Dr. Edgar van der Grift, senior research scientist at Alterra, Wageningen UniversityWageningen, The Netherlands. Prof. John A. Bissonette is a research scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey, leads the Utah Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit and is a professor in the College of Natural Resources at Utah State.

Screenwood addresses form and function

Addressing both form and function, Screenwood was specified by Wilson Architects and lahznimmo architects for the UNSW Wallace Wurth redevelopment.

Libraries Lead The Way In A Post-Digital World

With the role of modern libraries still firmly focused on sourcing, preserving and enabling access to physical collections, these masters of adaptability have also become significant drivers of innovation, digitalisation and interaction in their local communities.

3daysofdesign promises a collective recalibration from ‘more’ to ‘meaningful’

After Milan Design Week’s ‘festival of consumption’, 3daysofdesign offers a much-needed reset, an opportunity to ‘make the world a better place’ and perhaps even a soft-launch of the future.

A new front door for paediatric care at Westmead

Designed by Billard Leece Partnership, the Wattle Building brings expanded clinical services together with a more legible, family-centred experience of hospital care.

A line straight to the top

Drawing at a young age gave Angelene Chan an appreciation for architecture and provided the impetus to propel her to the top of her profession.

Made with intent

Sydney’s Klaro Industrial Design treats manufacturing as the place where design intent is protected – offering commercial designers a responsive, original and considered way to specify.