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Last week’s event on timber at 25 King Street in Brisbane was one for the books. An almost full house, mostly architects, replete with in-depth questions that at one stage looked like would keep going until midnight.

Marijn Schenk is a co-founder of Next Architects, a Dutch practice whose work embraces the challenges of creating multifunctional infrastructures that enhance their urban surrounds. Marijn will be visiting Brisbane on Tuesday 29 October for the UQ International Architecture Lecture Series, and prior to his visit Schenk spoke with Landscape Australia about collaboration, perspective and the pursuit of social and ecological agendas.

If you’re currently working from home and trying to homeschool simultaneously, you may have uttered the phrase to your child/ren, colleagues or partner, “I can only do one thing at a time”.

What are the implications of the shift to working from home for the design of domestic spaces?

The University of Queensland, Australian Embassy Beijing, Austrade and Swayn Centre for Australian Design at the National Museum of Australia have created a new type of exhibition experience in response to COVID-19 restrictions.

A NEW photographic exhibition has opened at the Mount Isa Civic Centre.

University of Queensland researchers have complied an exhibition titled Meston's Wild Australia Show 18921893.

Conceived by controversial entrepreneur Archibald Meston, the original historical Wild Australia Show toured in 1892- 1893 to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne and featured a choreographed troupe of 27 Aboriginal people recruited from the frontier in Queensland and the Northern Territory.

Andrew Lane is recognised as one of Australia’s few Indigenous architects, but his life journey also includes plenty of other distinctive aspects.