The National Gallery of Victoria has announced the five architectural studios who have been shortlisted in this year’s Architecture Commission competition, after being chosen from a pool of 93 entries earlier this month.
White Night, the 24-hour entertainment extravaganza, will burst on to the Melbourne city landscape tomorrow evening, with major architectural icons morphing into vivid displays of colour to tell a story of people and place.
The complexity of multicultural Australia requires an increased awareness of language, custom and culture. Having worked for many years with Aboriginal Australians to produce culturally sensitive architecture, Iredale Pedersen Hook Architects shares its experience of cultural competency.
San Francisco-based designer Yves Béhar is perhaps the world’s preeminent designer operating at the interface of humans and technology. The care of an ageing population, he says, is “the next frontier for design”.