Linda Cheng is Editor of ArchitectureAU.com. She has written extensively on architecture and design in Australia and around the world. Linda completed a Bachelor of Planning and Design (Architecture) at the University of Melbourne and has worked at a small architecture practice in Melbourne. Linda has also contributed to Australian architecture and design magazines including Architecture Australia, Houses, Artichoke, DQ, and the National Gallery of Victoria’s Gallery magazine. She was previously deputy editor/art director of Furnishing International and editorial assistant of Indesign and Habitus magazines.
Linda Cheng's Latest contributions
Survey finds climate action frustration among architects
A survey of architecture practitioners has found that an overwhelming majority of architects are concerned about the climate crisis, but they continue to face resistance to change from the wider built environment industry.
Air of universality: 2023 NGV Commission considers omnipresent element
A 14-metre-tall inflatable ball has been newly unveiled in the garden of the National Gallery of Victoria.
Sydney Opera House: an ‘unrepeatable’ masterpiece
The Sydney Opera House story is wrapped in wonder, myth and drama. The Concept, Innovation, Renewal symposium explore the past, present and future of this “masterpiece of 20th century architecture.”
Tadao Ando’s MPavilion opens
The Naomi Milgrom Foundation has opened the 10th MPavilion structure in Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Gardens, designed by Japanese architect and 1995 Pritzker Prize laureate Tadao Ando.
David T. Fortin on decolonizing architecture
David T. Fortin is a Canadian registered architect and a citizen of the Métis Nation of Ontario. Ahead of his appearance at the Living Cities Forum, he spoke to ArchitectureAU editor Linda Cheng about architecture’s role in the path towards reconciliation.
Shortlist announced: 2024 Australian Institute of Architects’ Dulux Study Tour
Thirty emerging architects have been selected to proceed to the second stage of judging in the Australian Institute of Architects 2024 Dulux Study Tour.
Fifty years of Sydney Opera House in 50 facts
The Sydney Opera House celebrates its 50th anniversary on 20 October 2023. We look back at some of the key moments that defined “the eighth wonder of the world.”
Pioneering simplicity in Helsinki
In her first column for ArchitectureAU, Sarah Lebner reflects on her meeting with Finnish studio Collaboratorio, where she found a couple of enterprising architects who are building their practice “as a machine for making it happen.”
Hannan House 2 renovation by Alexi Robinson Design
A “quintessentially Beaumaris” mid-century house has been sensitively updated with a new kitchen that creates the richly textured social centre of the home.
Breathe Architecture’s six-point plan to reduce carbon
Breathe Architecture is calling on all architects to reduce carbon emissions in their projects through six steps, which they revealed at an event in Melbourne on 20 September.