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Brisbane’s Expo 88 celebrates 30th anniversary

News | Thirty years ago, a 40-hectare site on Brisbane’s riverfront was transformed into a “festive” temporary event precinct that heralded the city’s coming of age.

Registrations open for 2018 NGV Architecture Commission design competition

News | The National Gallery of Victoria is inviting architect-led teams to submit proposals in a competition to design the 2018 Architecture Commission.

Serpentine Galleries unveils first pavilion commission outside the UK

News | Designed by Jiakun Architects, the Serpentine Pavilion Beijing will comprise a semi-tensile structure inspired by Confucian thought.

Ageing Brisbane mall temporarily reborn as cultural hub

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

Tracing a ‘revelatory path’: 2017 NGV Architecture Commission

Projects | 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.”

‘A landscape on an object’: NGV’s 2017 Architecture Commission opens

News | The NGV’s 2017 Architecture Commission by Retallack Thompson and Other Architects blurs landscape and architecture in an ethereal installation.

‘Living room in the garden’: OMA’s MPavilion to ‘steer debate about the city’

News | The 2017 MPavilion commission, designed by Rem Koolhaas and David Gianotten, has opened in Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Gardens.

The 2016 NGV Architecture Commissions that could have been

News | ArchitectureAU takes a look at the four unsuccessful shortlisted proposals from the 2016 competition, which included a “technicoloured tensile cloud” and a space for communal public sleeping.

Shortlist announced for NGV’s 2017 Architecture Commission

News | The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) has announced the shortlisted teams in a competition to design the 2017 Architecture Commission.

Haven’t You Always Wanted …? 2016 NGV Architecture Commission

Projects | The second iteration of the NGV Architecture Commission, Haven’t You Always Wanted …? by M@ Studio Architects, explores dematerialization and the expression of the civic in Melbourne’s future outer suburbs.

Exposure and enclosure: Studio Mumbai’s MPavilion

Projects | The third iteration of the Naomi Milgrom Foundation’s MPavilion, designed by Studio Mumbai, aimed to “capture the spirit of the place,” providing spaces for repose and contemplation on the edge of the Queen Victoria Gardens in Melbourne.

Architect-designed giant ball pit comes to Australia

News | New York-based architecture practice Snarkitecture has brought its popular The Beach installation to Australia for the Sydney Festival.

‘Dreamlike’ carwash-inspired pavilion opens at NGV

News | The National Gallery of Victoria has unveiled its 2016 Summer Architecture Commission designed by M@ Studio Architects.

Studio Mumbai’s MPavilion opens

News | The 2016 MPavilion designed by Indian practice Studio Mumbai has opened in Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Gardens.

Cultivated architecture: 2015 MPavilion

Projects | The 2015 MPavilion by Amanda Levete Architects – the second instalment of this annual architecture commission –presents a fittingly open platform for a diverse list of cultural programs.

Studio Mumbai’s MPavilion designs unveiled

News | The 2016 MPavilion designed by Indian architect Bijoy Jain of Studio is being billed as the largest bamboo structure ever to be built in Australia.

Is architecture art?

Discourse | John Macarthur and Susan Holden of Architecture Theory Criticism History (ATCH) use the pavilion as a device to explore the crossover between the disciplines of architecture and the visual arts.