Home Truth, Breathe Architecture’s installation for the 2024 NGV Architecture Commission, beckons a country that likes to live large to consider the benefits of smaller dwellings. The average floor area of Australian homes was a whopping 236.7 square metres in 2020, according to data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Our residences are among the […]
A giant wool lamb by Netherlands-based designer Christien Meindertsma, made using a pioneering new fabrication technology, has been unveiled as this year’s MECCA x NGV Women in Design Commission, opening today at the National Gallery of Victoria. Meindertsma’s work ‘First there was a mountain 2024’ repurposes wool from a flock of more than 2000 sheep […]
On display at The Ian Potter Centre in August, ‘Reimagining Birrarung: Design Concepts for 2070’ invites eight leading Australian landscape architecture and design firms to reimagine the lands and waters of Birrarung (the Yarra River) and create an exciting vision for how communities can better access, engage with and care for this important living ecosystem. […]
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Melbourne Winter Masterpieces series, the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), in a collaboration with the British Museum, presents ‘Pharaoh’, celebrating three thousand years of ancient Egyptian art and culture. Visitors will be transported into an ancient world, with 500 works on loan from the British Museum, including monumental […]
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