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Unsure about Designing with Country? Start with this event in October

Unsure about Designing with Country? Start with this event in October

Several design groups are coming together on 29th October, 2025 for ‘grounded,’ a day of talks and workshops on Country-centred design.

Architecture as laboratory: Notes from the Venice Biennale with David Holm

Architecture as laboratory: Notes from the Venice Biennale with David Holm

In this comment piece, COX Principal David Holm reflects on Carlo Ratti’s curatorship in which climate, colonisation and gender equity took centre stage at the Venice Biennale.

The future, today

The future, today

NGV exhibition ‘Making Good: Redesigning the Everyday’ is open – and be prepared to be amazed and delighted by great creative design.

Will Lynes calls for architects and designers to value the ancient trade of signwriting

Will Lynes calls for architects and designers to value the ancient trade of signwriting

Despite its long and rich history, signwriting is a profession in decline. Will Lynes’ new show, Oily Water at Canberra Glassworks, aims to showcase the techniques of the trade to highlight its potential in design.

Wonderfully Wonderstruck

Wonderfully Wonderstruck

Wonderstruck is currently on view at the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), an exuberant statement of flamboyant possibilities.

Rose Nolan exhibition opens at TarraWarra Museum of Art

Rose Nolan exhibition opens at TarraWarra Museum of Art

‘Breathing Helps’ is a major solo exhibition bringing together Nolan’s large-scale works with new commissions and performances.

Abdullah and Artedomus combine to create Arden Station façade

Abdullah and Artedomus combine to create Arden Station façade

Designed by artist Abdul Abdullah, the porcelain façade for this Melbourne train station has been executed with custom-printed Fiandre DYS panels.

Intricacy, intimacy and imagination: Ross Didier’s ANTHROPOCENE

Intricacy, intimacy and imagination: Ross Didier’s ANTHROPOCENE

Fine art that informs commercial design has authenticity and soul, and Ross Didier is at the forefront of creativity that is infused with passion.

The unexpected in the everyday: Drez on agency, architecture and art

The unexpected in the everyday: Drez on agency, architecture and art

The Melbourne-based artist works at the intersection of art and architecture. In a new exhibition at MAGMA Galleries, he turns his focus on urban space and agency to a smaller scale.

“She is Country”: New artwork set for prominent Sydney spot

“She is Country”: New artwork set for prominent Sydney spot

A major new permanent public artwork by Dharawal and Yuin artist Alison Page has been commissioned by Lendlease.

Cerith Wyn Evans at the MCA

Cerith Wyn Evans at the MCA

On the eve of Cerith Wyn Evans’ first museum exhibition in the Asia-Pacific region, we interviewed the internationally acclaimed contemporary artist in a wide-ranging discussion spanning Japanese gardens, the aesthetics of Buddhism and the Australian light.

Seidler-inspired office warmth

Seidler-inspired office warmth

Taking cues from Harry Seidler’s materials and curving corridors as well as luxury hotels and hospitality design, GroupGSA has completed a new suite of offices in Sydney.