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
Australia’s largest regional performing arts centre opens
The third and final stage of the Geelong Arts Centre redevelopment is now complete, making it the largest dedicated regional performing arts centre in Australia.
Entries open: 2024 Institute’s Dulux Study Tour
Applications are now open for the 2024 Australian Institute of Architects’ Dulux Study Tour, a coveted international architectural tour for five emerging architects.
All the submissions to the 2023 NGV Architecture Commission
A “kinetic portal,” big verandah, tent and “bronze veil” were just some of the design concepts that could have become the next installation of the National Gallery of Victoria’s 2023 Architecture Commission.
From regional romanticism to reconciliation: 2023 Dulux Study Tour, Vals, Zürich, Venice
The final leg of the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2023 Dulux Study Tour was like an architectural amazing race from Zürich to the Alpine Rhine Valley, back to Zürich, ending at the Venice Architecture Biennale.
Palimpsest and palindrome: 2023 Dulux Study Tour, Lisbon
The 2023 Dulux Study Tour makes its way to Lisbon, a city where the time-space continuum is written into the urban fabric.
Material culture: 2023 Dulux Study Tour, Helsinki
The first leg of the 2023 Dulux Study Tour visited Helsinki: traditionally a city of red granite, copper and experiments with new materials.
Joyce Chapel Bridge by Searle X Waldron Architecture
Located in a picturesque garden cemetery, Joyce Chapel Bridge creates a calm and serene creek crossing that integrates with the surrounding landscape and heritage setting.
Australian homes on the silver screen
Australian architect-designed homes have provided the cinematic canvases for many a film and TV show. Here’s five homes that have featured on the silver screen.
Keating, Perrottet sledge architects in ‘distasteful’ press conference
The Australian Institute of Architects has demanded an apology for “distasteful, derogatory and false remarks” made by NSW premier Dominic Perrottet and Paul Keating in a press conference at Barangaroo.
Installation aims to spark a ‘care revolution’
Mexican architect Tatiana Bilbao’s installation at the National Gallery of Victoria uses the act of laundering clothes as a vehicle for exposing the inequalities of unpaid domestic labour.