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August 31, 2022

Stephen Todd gives us a rundown on Sydney Design Week

Sydney Design Week creative director, Stephen Todd, shares all the ins and outs of what is shaping up to be an outstanding city-wide showcase. Jarrod Reedie reports.

September 14, 2021

Sydney Design Week Is Hyperconnected For 2021

Sydney Design Week will present six free digital sessions on hyperconnectivity – a theme that creative director Stephen Todd says is about remembering what we learnt in 2020.

October 8, 2020

Even Before Covid-19 The Way We Designed Our Homes Was Being Questioned

A new exhibition at the Powerhouse Museum seeks to explore and challenge the role of the home in 2030.

August 18, 2020

MPavilion Reaches Us In New Ways In 2020

For the first time in its six-year history, MPavilion has released a monolith designed by Studio Ongarato and published by Thames & Hudson that chronicles its six structures and the architects who designed them.

May 10, 2019

Build It, They Will Come: The Pavilion Frenzy

Spectacular architectural pavilions are big crowd-pleasers, but critics claim they’re running out of control.

October 15, 2018

Are The Sydney Opera House Sails For Sale?

In case you missed it – though we’re not sure how you could have – Sydneysiders and the design community have vehemently rallied in support of Louise Herron, CEO of the Sydney Opera House, and her efforts to protect the integrity of Australia’s most iconic piece of architecture.

May 2, 2018

Penelope Seidler One On One With Stephen Todd

A child of the left wing intelligentsia, Penelope Seidler was never just the wife of one of Australia’s most notable architects. We visit her at the home she and Harry designed.

February 7, 2018

Bill Henson: The Gloaming

The glimmer, the glisten, the glamour*… Life imitates art in the home of Australia’s most corporeal artist, Bill Henson.

December 20, 2017

In Conversation With… Carl Pickering

Sydney-born Carl Pickering is one half of Rome practice, Lazzarini Pickering Architetti with his partner of 35 years, Claudio Lazzarini. Frequently spotted around the Eastern Suburbs, we recently caught up with the man behind the iconic Bondi Icebergs restaurant.

December 13, 2017

In Conversation With… Michael Anastassiades

The Anglo-Cypriot designer was in transit in Sydney earlier this week – we took up some of his beach time for a chat.

December 6, 2017

In Conversation With… Trent Jansen

Design anthropologist Trent Jansen has unveiled a new body of work in collaboration with the Mangkala indigenous collective of Fitzroy Crossing.

November 29, 2017

In Conversation With… Miriam Fanning

The founder and principal of Melbourne’s prolific Mim Design studio talks about gearing up to a 360 degree way of working.