The Design Institute of Australia (DIA)’s hotly contested 2009 Australasian Student Design Awards (ASDA) concluded recently, with design students from Australian and New Zealand tertiary institutions submitting their best final year work for judging by some of the industry’s most experienced designers. The…

The ‘Growing Up Competition’ was recently held and run by the Committee for Melbourne ‘Future Focus Group’. The competition called for a design for a roof top garden for one of 3 buildings in the Melbourne CBD. The competition was open to all registered Architects,…

The prize winners of the Australian re-Growth House competition have been announced today. The competition, organized on behalf of the people of Victoria that lost their homes in the Black Saturday bush fires, sought inspirational design ideas that can offer a way, for residents who…

Finalists have been announced for the re Growth pod competition. An international ideas competition for the design for a new family house for the residents of Kinglake who have lost their homes in the Bushfire.  This competition is open to architects and designers not just…

Our Australian friends at Super Colossal set up a very nice gallery with entries for the UTS Broadway Design Competition which asks to design a new 5 star Green Star building on the southern edge of the Sydney CBD. “The competition opened…

A man credited with ‘shaping Sydney’s physical and culture landscape’, with creating some of the city’s most ‘iconic public spaces’, and ‘ensuring the better design of all new residential buildings over three stories’, has been awarded Australia’s top national architecture prize - the Australian Institute of Architects 2009 Gold Medal…

Rafael Viñoly Architects (RVA) just announced the award of four independent Research Fellowships for 2009. The global call for entries saw over 180 proposals from 39 countries with a wide approach to the suggested general theme: how architecture can better meet the needs of communities…

On December 19, Australian Veterans’ Affairs Minister Alan Griffin unveiled the design for a memorial to honour Australians who have given their lives during peacekeeping operations around the world. The memorial, to be built on Canberra’s Anzac Parade, will also serve to symbolize the ongoing work of the hundreds of…

The ninth Glenn Murcutt International Architecture Master Class will be held in Australia at Glenn Murcutt’s “Masterwork”, the Arthur and Yvonne Boyd Education Centre ‘Riversdale’ on the banks of the Shoalhaven River south of Sydney, and at the School of Architecture at the University of Sydney, 12-26 July 2009.

65th Recipient of AIA’s highest honor is noted for his sustainable style The AIA Board of Directors voted today to award the 2009 AIA Gold Medal to Australian architect Glenn Marcus Murcutt, Hon. FAIA. Murcutt was recognized by the AIA Board in large part for the depth of his…