MPavilion: Cultural Laboratory Meeting Place, Melbourne 2017
MPavilion Australia’s leading architectural commission opens at Melbourne in Spring, offering citizens and visitors Free admission to a stunning array of events
Architecture
NGV Triennial – NGV Architecture Commission & Akio Makigawa
NGV Architecture Commission part of the NGV Triennial of Contemporary Art & Cesign & the exhibition Akio Makigawa: Spirit & Memory contribute to cultural growth
What Do You Know? Play our Quiz: Design & Decorative Arts
What do you know about design history and the decorative arts and the evolution of taste from antiquity to the present day
Architectural Design Styles Test – Play Our Interactive Quiz
Play our Interactive Quiz and expand your knowledge of the evolution of architectural design styles, including Palladian, Gothic, Neoclassic, Baroque and more
Millennium Park Chicago – A Community Space for 21st Century
The first of an occasional series focusing on the city of Chicago that great ode to modernity, spotlighting the architecture its sculptures, galleries and parks
Give the Gift of Good Cheer, Sweet Words & Love at Christmas
Celebrate the festive season with good cheer, it’s time for sweet words, to be thankful to your host and resolve to give joy to others, to praise and enjoy life
MPavilion – Giving Birth to Beauty of Form & Creative Ideas
Indian architect Bijoy Jain of Studio Mumbai will design the purpose built MPavilion for 2016 in Melbourne, the largest bamboo structure ever built in Australia
Zaha Hadid, Woman of Influence – Beyond British Architecture
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid (1950-2016) DBE was a woman of influence during her lifetime, a role model for a whole generation of architects and students of design
Christmas: A Time for Reflection – Hope Springs Eternal
At Athens the temple was for priests, people standing outside divinity hidden – the Christian worshipped inside an architectural space where hope sprung eternal
NGV Summer Pavilion – Structural Overview: John Bahoric
John Bahoric engineered architectural outcomes on the NGV’s inaugural Summer Architectural Commission, the John Wardle Architects designed playful Pink Pavilion
Henry IV of France Legacy: Place des Vosges, Marais in Paris
Recently Jo Bayley was in Paris where daily in the Marais district many enjoy the good life especially in the Place des Vosges legacy of King Henry IV the Great
Destination Melbourne – Architecture & Community + Education
As a UNESCO City of Literature, Melbourne is considered a Knowledge City a place where energy, enthusiasm, excellence and enterprise are integral to its essence
Labassa – National Trust in Victoria, Discover Your Heritage
Plan ahead for autumn and winter at the National Trust in Victoria’s house Labassa where a program of events aims to expand knowledge of our heritage in design
Vitruvius On Architecture – The Art of Enclosing Space
The art of enclosing space is something 1st century Roman architect and engineer Marcus Pollio Vitruvius knew about and recorded in his treatise on architecture
Colour Considerations – Tradition, Legend, Myth and Magic
All cultures on earth have particular perceptions of and about colour, which in its evolution has come to symbolize many things collectively and individually
Labassa – Melbourne Gold Boom Mansion, Rescue & Restoration
The National Trust of Victoria is painstakingly restoring Labassa at Caulfield to the format established when it became one of Melbourne’s most stylish houses