Tag: Indigenous architecture

The winning design for Western Sydney University's Indigenous Centre of Excellence by Sarah Lynn Rees, Jackson Clements Burrows, Peter Stutchbury Architecture, Jane Irwin Landscape Architecture, Uncle Dean Kelly, Hill Thalis Architecture and Flux Consultant.

Winning design unveiled for WSU Indigenous Centre of Excellence

Western Sydney University’s Indigenous Centre of Excellence will be a community-focused facility that will integrated Indigenous knowledge into its design.

A reference design for Western Sydney University's proposed Indigenous Centre of Excellence by Allen, Jack and Cottier.
News | Adair Winder | 16 Aug 2023

Competition launched for Western Sydney University’s Indigenous Centre of Excellence

Australian architects and designers are invited to submit expressions of interest for the re-design of Western Sydney University’s Indigenous Centre of Excellence.

Aerial view of the proposed Ngurra Cultural Precinct site from Mount Ainslie.

Design competition launched for national Indigenous cultural precinct

The Australian government has launched the national competition to design a $316.5 million Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural precinct in Canberra.

Commonwealth Place and Reconciliation Place, the site for the proposed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural precinct, Ngurra.
News | ArchitectureAU Editorial | 10 Jan 2022

Indigenous cultural precinct to be built in Canberra

A $316.5 million Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural precinct will be built on the shores of Lake Burley Griffin.

Conceptual design for Victoria Park (Barrambin), Brisbane.

Vision for 64-hectare Brisbane park finalized

Brisbane council’s final vision to transform a golf course into a public park will include revegetated forests, native bushland pockets and restored waterholes.

The Echo Point Visitor Centre, designed by Chrofi Architects and Breakspear Architects with engagement consultant Yatu Widders-Hunt of Cox Inall Ridgeway.

Consideration of Country to be the heart of NSW planning system

Government Architect NSW has released a draft planning framework aimed at prioritizing and protecting Indigenous connection to Country.

Indicative design of the UTS Indigenous college.

Australia’s first Indigenous residential college to be built at UTS

The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) has announced plans to build a $100 million residential college for Indigenous students on or near its Ultimo campus.

Venus shines bright in the sky above Victoria.
Practice | Duane Hamacher | 16 Aug 2018

Aboriginal traditions describe the complex motions of planets, the ‘wandering stars’ of the sky

Recent research reveals a wealth of information about the planets and their complex motions in the knowledge systems of Indigenous Australians.

Milky Way star map by Bill Yidumduma Harney, Senior Wardaman Edler.
News | Duane Hamacher | 19 Jan 2018

The stories behind Aboriginal star names now recognized by the world’s astronomical body

The International Astronomical Union has officially recognized the Australian Aboriginal names for four stars – three names from the Wardaman people and one from the Boorong people.

The City of Adelaide created a dual naming process to bring Kaurna words into the cityscape. Pictured here is the Riverbank Bridge by Taylor Cullity Lethlean (TCL), Aurecon and Tonkin Zulaikha Greer (TZG), which crosses the Karrawirra Pari (River Torrens).
Practice | Frances Wyld | 16 Nov 2016

The Moving City as palimpsest

In Australia our cities are built upon the lands of Indigenous peoples, but Indigenous people are still here; their culture is still here. To see it we must stop, listen and look for the signs.

The cover image for Planning for Coexistence? by Libby Porter and Janice Barry.
News | Louisa Wright | 10 Nov 2016

New book to connect urban planners and Indigenous communities

A new book titled Planning for Coexistence? aims to connect urban planners and Indigenous communities and help the two work together effectively.

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