Tag: Temporary
2019 NGV Architecture commission shortlist announced
The National Gallery of Victoria has announced the shortlisted teams in contention to design the 2019 Architecture Commission.
Southern Cross University launches national pavilion design competition
Emerging architects, designers and artists are invited to design a dynamic, playful and innovative temporary structure for Lismore.
Brisbane’s Expo 88 celebrates 30th anniversary
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
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
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
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
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
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’
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
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
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
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
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
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
The National Gallery of Victoria has unveiled its 2016 Summer Architecture Commission designed by M@ Studio Architects.
Studio Mumbai’s MPavilion opens
The 2016 MPavilion designed by Indian practice Studio Mumbai has opened in Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Gardens.
Cultivated architecture: 2015 MPavilion
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
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?
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.
Winner revealed: NGV’s 2016 Architecture Commission
A car wash-inspired “fun palace in the heart of the city” wins the National Gallery of Victoria’s 2016 Architecture Commission.