Futures Collective brings together the work of a range of award-winning designers determined to keep sustainability at the forefront of their practice.
Marking the fourth edition of Cult’s esteemed Chairity project, the event invites leading Australian creatives to bravely reinterpret an iconic chair design. After a five-year hiatus, Cult is thrilled to re-introduce the Chairity project, partnering with one of the fastest-growing Danish design brands in the world, HAY. From 2014 to 2016, Cult invited creatives to […]
Presented as part of Melbourne Design Week, the inaugural Melbourne Design Fair is a commercial showcase of limited edition, rare and one-of-a-kind collectible designs by Australian creatives. From 16 to 20 March, the fair will feature collectible contemporary design works across two platforms, with all works available for purchase. In the first platform – PRESENT […]
IDEA 2022 is now open for entries, celebrating the best Australian interior design projects and the studios and designers behind them. This year, entries will be open until 10 June, with discounted early bird rates available until 1 May. Enter IDEA 2022 now! Create an account (or log into an existing account) and start working on […]
The British industrial designer came to this week’s Salone del Mobile in Milan with a new lighting collection dubbed Luminosity. The annual furniture fair, which kicked off on Monday and is set to end this Friday, is a much pared-back occasion after the original April timing was postponed following COVID-19 restrictions. The event will be […]
While JobKeeper was the Australian Federal Government’s principal scheme for helping businesses to survive the economic impacts of COVID-19, now that it has ended, a new incentive to kick-start the economy has been launched. But what is JobMaker and can it benefit your practice? Launched on 7 October 2020 in line with the Federal Budget, […]
Architecture can be both a business and a vocation, but what happens afterwards? ADR tours Justin Art House Museum (JAHM) with Charles Justin – one of the founders of famed Melbourne practice SJB – to find out. If you’ve ever found yourself traversing the busy residential stretch of Hotham Street in the inner Melbourne suburb […]
Hassell made 59 promotions across its global studios at the end of last month, adding six new principals to its leadership team. Speaking of the announcement, Hassell’s managing director Steve Coster described the appointments as a balanced representation of the practice, “including gender and geographic locations. “These promotions reflect each individual’s contribution toward designing the world’s best places […]
Victorian treasurer Tim Pallas will be launching this year’s Be Summit, which will be held virtually on 10 September 2021. The annual built environment event will be free to watch and features headliners EY Asia-Pacific markets and business development leader Matt Lovegrove, CoreLogic Asia Pacific head of research Tim Lawless, Ray White chief economist Nerida […]
Following the release of the latest IPCC climate report, ADR reached out to AIA 2021 Leadership in Sustainability Prize joint winner and Australian Architects Declare spokesperson Caroline Pidcock. A prominent advocate for sustainable development, Pidock explains how architects and designers can help prevent catastrophic climate change. As the IPCC AR6 Synthesis report clunked into our inboxes last month, […]
Artists, designers and architects are being invited to pitch their projects and ideas for Melbourne Design Week 2022. The Victoria-wide 11-day program of talks, tours, workshops, launches and exhibitions builds upon the 2021 theme – ‘Design the world you want’ with two new “pillars” – Civic Good and Making Good. For the former, Melbourne Design […]
The eight-story building from Wood Marsh shines its monolithic crystal formation on Cremorne’s fast-growing design and technology precinct, Church Street. Architects worked collaboratively with construction company ICON to create a first-of-its-kind progressive commercial building among the industrial grit of the inner-city Melbourne suburb. 600 Church Street is unconventional in form with the building designed to […]