Melbourne Design Week again takes over the city for the last week of May. The multi faceted event showcases the work of thousands of designers and artists from varying communities both local and interstate as well as international. Events for the week are held at varying times within hundreds of locations across primarily Melbourne but […]
Read moreCranbourne West Community Hub: Case Study
Cranbourne West Community Hub City of Casey Designed by The 2A Architectural Studio Builder: Lloyd Group Completed: 2020
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Large estates flourish on the formally wooded hills of oaks, gums and banksia overlooking a swampy marshland scattered with ti tree and paperbark, rich with waterfowl and wallabies, the land of the Wurundjeri soon swept away by the Crown for allotments. The expanse of rolling landscape to the south of Toorak road a former land […]
Read moreFuture Proof
University architecture has for at least the past thirty years been intentionally interesting, I know I personally have for a long time felt that some of the best public architecture exists within and around universities, as does some really well thought out public space and it has to be this way. Universities are world schools, […]
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A path bestride with iceberg roses the sun reflecting off their vibrant white petals glisten in stillness from the morning’s dew. The ochre facade of the 1865 cheese factory stands picturesque at the top of the garden, a testament to its architect George Browne. The double-skinned brick walls filtering the air to a perfect temperate […]
Read moreLight Zone: MPavilion 2022
MPavilion exists as an idea of architectural form, envisioned in reality and temporary in place, functional in its existence and always extant somewhere. The idea of MPavilion was first realised in 2014 by the Naomi Milgrom Foundation, a nonprofit organisation whose focus is on openly accessible art and architecture for the Australian public. Each year […]
Read moreScents of Change
Empty shopfronts decorated in faded newspaper peeling and barely legible through the dust laden glass, a small slit for letters in the door stuffed full spills through the entrance way like an envelope rug. The verandah providing a makeshift scaffold itself soon to be washed in multiple coats of fresh paint. A sign rehung and […]
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