“You have the power to change the world. The United Nations (UN) needs your help to stop the spread of coronavirus” was the message launched yesterday in the Be Ready campaign aimed at creatives worldwide. Teaming up with the World Health Organization, the UN’s open campaign calls on designers to produce visual content – graphics, […]
The Salone del Mobile 2020 was cancelled over the weekend due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Milan furniture fair will now take place on 13-18 April 2021. Organisers announced in a statement that the decision was made “in light of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic that is spreading to almost every country in the world. “Although […]
Gabriel Poole, Robin Boyd Award for Residential Architecture winner and 1998 Royal Australian Institute of Architecture Gold Medalist, passed away yesterday of natural causes aged 85. The Poole House, designed in 1962, while still a student draftsman in Robin Gibson’s office, was his first home in Brisbane’s Sherwood. In the 1970s, Poole established Atelier-Two-Designs with […]
Terence Yong Architecture used colour to solve conflicting requirements between an ambitious brief and cost constraints in its refurbishment of a Harry Seidler-designed commercial building in Sydney. The brief was to return the upper levels of a deteriorating mid-century architecture in Haymarket, which had been used commercially in different ways over the last six decades, […]