Author: Tim McDonald
How a discarded rowing vessel morphed into a sculptural circular lighting piece. A damaged rowing shell has found new life inside a sculptural lighting piece by Melbourne industrial designer and artist Edward Linacre, transforming family history and discarded materials into an intimate act of circular design. When a rowing boat named after your mother reaches […]
The newly reimagined Newcastle Art Gallery (NAG) has unveiled three major exhibitions signalling a bold new chapter for the institution, and combining large-scale commissions with deeply personal explorations of culture and memory. The exhibitions include the largest solo exhibition ever staged by acclaimed Torres Strait Islander artist Brian Robinson, the first institutional solo presentation by […]
Australian Design Review’s regular round-up of appointments, promotions and other practice news in Australian architecture and design in April 2026. SJB SJB has announced a number of promotions at its Sydney studio. Gabby Suhr, Rachel Yabsley and Wes Grunsell have all stepped in to project director roles, “to lead and coordinate the design teams, including front-end […]
A Melbourne CBD intervention achieves warmth, intimacy and a 50 to 75 percent reduction in embodied carbon through keeping what already exists. Across Australia’s major cities, the pressure to reposition ageing commercial assets has become one of the defining challenges of the built environment, and all too often the default response is demolition, a cycle […]
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