Culture
Events
3daysofdesign diaries with Jason Gibney
The Sydney-based director of Jason Gibney Design Workshop travelled to Copenhagen for this year’s Scandinavian festival of design, reflecting on what makes the event — and the city — so special.
Project
Designing infrastructure and care at Kampung Mrican
SHAU’s Kampung Mrican revitalisation transforms community life through social architecture, local collaboration and sustainable design.
News
Parliamentary Friends for Australian Urban Design reconvenes for the 48th Australian Parliament
The Parliamentary Friends reconvened at Parliament House, uniting political and professional leaders to champion architecture and design.
Project
GroupGSA designs MUFG Pension & Market Services’ Sydney HQ
GroupGSA delivers MUFG Pension & Market Service’s Sydney HQ with a dual Japanese–Australian identity, blending precision, warmth and workplace flexibility.
Ideas
Uncovering Melbourne’s interior heritage
A new book documents the city’s historic building interiors, from 1800s coffee palaces to post-war modernist spaces.
Events
Funding cuts are an existential threat to Australian Design Centre
The Australian Design Centre (ADC) is facing a crisis as core funding cuts leave NSW without a government-funded organisation dedicated to craft and design practice.
Events
Ballarat’s UNESCO Creative City status drives craft renaissance and economic growth
With events such as Craft Lab and The Great Takeaway, the city of Ballarat is centring design and craft for an economic reawakening.
News
Geelong Design Week showcases a UNESCO City of Design
This November, a ten-day festival in Geelong will showcase various events, celebrating culture, craft and creative vision.
Events
Immersive hands-on learning at First Peoples Architecture event
Beginnings – First Peoples Architecture presented by the RAA, took place 19th-21st October. Hands-on in its learnings, attendees also gained CPD Points.
Workplace
Comment: This rise of empathetic leadership and earning back the commute
As we enter the age of storytelling and empathetic leadership, what are the intangibles that feed a workplace’s culture? Alice Blackwood speaks with Amanda Stanaway, Dr Amantha Imber and Nat Cagilaba.
Articles
The missing link between culture, artwork and flooring
GH Commercial works closely with the Dreamtime Flooring team to support Indigenous artists and create a new kind of flooring inspired by culture, heritage and legacy. It’s well past time for Indigenous designs to be included in the built environment. Here is one of many steps forward.
Ideas
Warning to all architects: Ignore design culture at your peril
Australian architect and Conrad Gargett principal Dale Swan laments the lack of design culture in some practices across the country. According to Dale, it’s often what leads promising young architects and designers to exit such studios.
Project
At the centre of intense renewal: Powerhouse Parramatta
Moreau Kusunoki and Genton envisage Powerhouse Parramatta as a hyper-platform with exposed structural elements channelling Parramatta’s industrialist history.
Project
To create amazing things we must work together
Beyond the realm of academia, RMIT’s administrative offices, or RMIT Our Place, by ARM Architecture called for a series of curated, tech-savvy spaces to appeal to its diversity of workers.