The organizers of the Venice Architecture Biennale have postponed the opening of the event in response to the outbreak of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Italy, slashing the six-month festival to just three. The Biennale will now run from 29 August to its originally scheduled closing date of 29 November. It was originally scheduled to open […] More
Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara of Dublin-based Grafton Architects have been awarded the 2020 Pritzker Prize, marking the first time architecture’s highest honour has been awarded to two women. It’s also just the second time the prize has not been given to a man, or a team including a man, since Zaha Hadid won it […] More
The City of Melbourne has voted in favour of an application for the construction of UN Studio and Cox Architecture’s “Green Spine” proposal in Melbourne’s Southbank. The design for what would be Melbourne’s largest and tallest inner-city development was chosen in a star-studded design competition run by developer Beulah in 2018 that included a number […] More
A new social and entertainment hub designed by Cox Architecture with landscape architecture by RPS has opened at James Cook University’s Douglas campus in Townsville. The $5 million Central Plaza project features a distinctive curved shade canopy emblazoned with a large-scale artwork. The canopy appears to change shape when viewed from different perspectives. JCU vice […] More
Cox Architecture has completed a new 2,000-seat performance venue in western Sydney that is inspired by the fluid movements of a stage curtain. The privately funded Sydney Coliseum Theatre, in the suburb of Rooty Hill, was first proposed in November 2017. The design of the centre is inspired by the trappings of the theatre, with […] More
Seven prominent Australian designers working across architecture, interior design, fashion, graphic design, textiles and publishing will be inducted into the Design Institute of Australia’s Hall of Fame on 20 March.. Among the inductees is Jefa Greenaway, director of Greenaway Architects and co-founder and chair of Indigenous Architecture and Design Victoria, Australia’s only Indigenous design association. […] More
What, if anything, is a house? Can a farm be a house? A museum? A garden? These questions will be explored during an “engaging day of learning” in regional Victoria, with some of Australia’s most innovative architects presenting genre-bending “hybrid houses” that combine the function of living with something else. This edition of The Architecture […] More
A Portuguese architecture practice has won a design ideas competition for a replacement jetty in Melbourne with a design inspired by the geometry of a wave. Brookes Jetty at St Kilda Beach, near Luna Park and the Palais Theatre, was originally a 1.2-metre-wide slender timber structure at the end of a concrete storm water drain. […] More
