Art, architecture and travel in Melbourne

A concrete Melbourne home centred on nature and mindfulness

Canopy House by Powell & Glenn is a Melbourne house built around mindfulness and a passion for open-air, concrete South American architecture

By Ellie Stathaki Last updated 31 August 22

Performance power: Rem Koolhaas and David Gianotten discuss the 2017 MPavilion

By Ellie Stathaki Last updated 31 August 22

Melbourne’s Photo 2020 announces line-up of 120 artists

Australia’s major new international photography festival is set to explore the pertinent theme of truth

By Elly Parsons Last updated 29 August 22

Temporary architecture brings joy to Melbourne’s summer

Melbourne celebrates the arrival of not one, but two new temporary pavilions: the 2021 MPavilion and the annual National Gallery of Victoria Architecture Commission

By Elias Redstone Last updated 27 August 22

Melbourne hot yoga studio expands to Sydney

By Daisy Alioto Last updated 26 August 22

NGV’s new blockbuster Triennial brings together over 100 artists and designers

By Dimity Noble Last updated 24 August 22

Melbourne’s MPavilion announces 2021 architects

Francesco Magnani and Traudy Pelzel of MAP Studio have been announced by the Naomi Milgrom Foundation to design the 2021 MPavilion in Melbourne, Australia 

By Ellie Stathaki Last updated 16 August 22

Flower power: ’petals’ make up the new Mpavilion by Amanda Levete in Melbourne

By Stephen Crafti Last updated 14 August 22

Complex shapes: Beyoncé inspires Elenberg Fraser's new Premier Tower skyscraper in Melbourne

By Sam Rogers Last updated 13 August 22

Sneakerboy is a Melbourne retail Mecca for trainer aficionados

By Katrina Israel Last updated 13 August 22

A storm is brewing inside March Studio’s cloud-like pavilion in Melbourne

Random International’s Rain Room installation makes its Australian debut

By Dimity Noble Last updated 9 August 22

Double vision: Inarc Architects design twin houses in Melbourne’s Fitzroy

By Stephen Crafti Last updated 7 August 22

Compact housing scheme design in Melbourne is based in nature

A boutique apartment building in a leafy neighbourhood outside Melbourne, Australia, was designed by architecture studio Jolson as an abstracted Italianate villa engulfed in nature

By Ellie Stathaki Last updated 29 July 22

Coppersmith Hotel — Melbourne, Australia

By David Paw Last updated 21 July 22

Melbourne Design Week returns for 2021 edition

Now in its fifth consecutive year, Melbourne Design Week (26 March – 5 April 2021) returns with a multi-site program of design activations and provocations under a compelling theme: ‘Design the world you want’

By Elias Redstone Last updated 5 July 22

Melbourne Design Week asks ‘How can design shape life?’

Our edit of exhibitions to see at Melbourne Design Week 2020

By Dimity Noble Last updated 4 July 22

Melbourne industrial conversion makes for craft-rich family home

Craft, history and nature define Stockroom, a complex designed by Architects EAT in Fitzroy, Melbourne; a masterfully industrial conversion reimagined as a family home

By Ellie Stathaki Last updated 4 July 22

Melbourne’s Nido II house is an urban nest blending old and new

Angelucci Architects’ Nido II is a Melbourne house designed as a smart urban collage bridging old and new

By Jonathan Bell Last updated 3 July 22

Australia’s Mitchelton Winery gets a new hotel designed by Hecker Guthrie

By Lauren Ho Published 23 February 18

Escape patch: Bijoy Jain’s bamboo Mpavilion launches in Melbourne

By Ellie Stathaki Published 4 October 16

Bamboo wonder: Studio Mumbai’s Bijoy Jain designs 2016 MPavilion in Melbourne

By Sara Sturges Published 27 July 16

Chanel's Melbourne flagship emulates an elegant Parisian maison

By Katrina Israel Published 1 November 13