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A design challenge set to take place in February will ask participants to imagine how Australia will manage its aged care system in 2050. The Longevity by Design challenge is convened by The University of Queensland’s Healthy Aging Initiative and DMA Engineers, and will involve teams of four to eight people competing on a site […] More
Murdoch University is seeking expressions of interest for a design competition for a new environmental education centre at its campus in Perth’s south. The Harry Butler Environmental Education Centre will be the home of the Harry Butler Institute, Murdoch University’s research centre that will explore the co-existence of economic development and protecting the natural environment. […] More
Brisbane City Council has revealed a “draft vision” for Victoria Park, a planned new public park to be built on an existing golf course north of the CBD. The document, which is out for public consultation, follows the publication of five speculative designs for what the park could look like by five local design practices […] More
Architecture and arts patron Gene Sherman has received an honorary doctorate from the University of New South Wales for her services to art and design. Sherman is the founder, executive director and artistic director of the Sherman Centre for Culture and Ideas (SCCI), which curates and runs a ten-day architecture festival in Sydney annually. <!— […] More
BVN has designed a three-tower residential and commercial block for the burgeoning Carter Street Precinct of Lidcombe, Western Sydney. The development would include 579 residential apartments across three towers of 29, 22 and 19 storeys and four townhouses, as well as an eight-storey commercial building with ground-level retail spaces. According to the architects, the building […] More
Gray Puksand has designed a secondary college for the Victorian city of Shepparton that will aim to combine the facilities of a large school with the feel of a smaller school environment. The Greater Shepparton Secondary College will replace the city’s four existing public secondary schools and will be built on the current Shepparton High […] More
Australian-born architectural historian and writer Emma Letizia Jones has been announced as one of six winners of the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s 2020 Richard Rogers Fellowship. Jones attended both the University of Sydney and the Architectural Association in London before obtaining a PhD at the University of Zurich with a thesis on the drawing […] More
A new initiative has seen a number of Australian architecture practices commit to becoming carbon neutral businesses by the end of 2020. The movement has grown out of Architects Declare Australia, a initiative which facilitated 700 signatories to a declaration of a climate and biodiversity emergency. In December 2019, a group of Melbourne signatories met […] More
