Tag: Installations

Jem by ENESS, part of the Flowstate precinct designed by Stukel Stone and Lat27.

Ageing Brisbane mall temporarily reborn as cultural hub

Architects Stukel Stone have transformed a decrepit riverside mall in Brisbane into a temporary performance venue ahead of the 2018 Commonwealth Games.

Garden Wall by Retallack Thompson and Other Architects.
Review | Cassandra Chilton | 24 Jan 2018

Tracing a ‘revelatory path’: 2017 NGV Architecture Commission

Cassandra Chilton of Rush Wright Associates reviews the 2017 NGV Architecture Commission by Retallack Thompson and Other Architects and finds, among other things, the “best place in Melbourne this summer for a warm afternoon snooze.”

Inside the Flower by Janet Laurence and LAVA.
News | Patrick Hunn | 7 Jun 2017

LAVA, Janet Laurence create membrane-wrapped ‘medicinal garden’ pavilion

LAVA has collaborated with artist Janet Laurence to create a pavilion that is both a botanical display and an “experiential” space featuring edible flowers and plant extracts.

A Cubist’s dream.
Review | Cassandra Chilton | 28 Apr 2017

Sh*t Gardens of Melbourne II: A celebration not a condemnation

Cassandra Chilton reviews the recent exhibition Shit Gardens of Melbourne II: A Celebration Not a Condemnation – an unofficial fringe event to the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show.

A pop-up village at the Australian National University designed by Oculus, Craig Tan Architects and Therefore Studio.
News | Linda Cheng | 14 Mar 2017

Pop-up village underway at ANU

The Australian National University (ANU) will construct a “pop-up village” at the heart of its Canberra campus, while it awaits the $220-million redevelopment.

The Floating Piers by Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Lake Iseo, Italy, 2014-16.
Review | Louise Wright and Mauro Baracco | 12 Jan 2017

Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Floating Piers

Mauro Baracco and Louise Wright visited Christo and Jeanne-Claude latest work that stretched across Italy’s picturesque Lake Iseo for two weeks in June 2016.

Natalie Jeremijenko: Wondrous engagement
Practice | Claire Martin | 9 May 2016

Natalie Jeremijenko: Wondrous engagement

Natalie Jeremijenko speaks about her projects of “wondrous engagement” including urban zip lines and luxury housing for lobsters.

A cosmopolitan meadow in Portland, Oregon, is composed of a motley ensemble of weeds and goats.
Practice | Brett Milligan | 4 May 2016

Engaging the vacant

This self-initiated project in Portland, Oregon, transformed a vacant inner-urban lot into an immersive landscape experiment.

The largest and most “designed” of the 2014 plantings took the form of a 2.4-kilometre-long spiral on the site of the former Moe public hospital.
Review | David Bullpit | 3 May 2016

Seeds of Change: Get Sunflowered

A project in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley offers a happy intervention to a region facing serious economic and social challenges.

As part of arts festival True North, thirty trees were wrapped in coloured cotton rope.
Review | Elizabeth Cummins | 3 May 2016

Everything Except Walk

Pollen Studio’s coloured rope work ushers in the 2014 True North Reservoir Arts Festival in Melbourne.

Steps, niches and platforms provide for walking, climbing and sitting.
Review | Brett Seakins | 3 May 2016

Stawell Steps

A brick spillway by Monash Architecture and Hiroshi Nakao reflects rhythms of human occupation.

Steps, niches and platforms provide for walking, climbing and sitting.
Review | Brett Seakins | 8 Apr 2016

Stawell Steps

A brick spillway by Monash Architecture and Hiroshi Nakao reflects rhythms of human occupation.

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