Painting Industry News

The billionaire Meriton apartment developer says Scott Morrison's re-election, first home buyer deposit assistance and interest rate cuts will put a floor under the housing market.

Henrik Schoenefeldt argues that if architects “had paid more attention to the difficulties of building with glass, the great environmental damage wrought by modern glass skyscrapers could have been avoided.”

The City of Melbourne has announced an expansion of its annual awards program – the Melbourne Awards – that includes a category for outstanding urban design projects.

The design for this vineyard and sculpture park on a coastal site in Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula skilfully orchestrates architecture, landscape and art into a cohesive and integrated whole.

In London, the 2019 Dulux Study Tour group found a city in constant pursuit of its next achievement, where the drive for excellence and innovation is motivating practices across the city to pursue niche passions.

The National Disability Insurance Scheme headquarters in Geelong feature a 3,000-square-metre façade of Suntuitive "dynamic" Insulating Glass Units (IGUs) manufactured by Glassworks and installed by Minesco.

Shaneen Fantin speaks with practitioners in far north Queensland to discuss flexible practice models, working with government and the profits and pitfalls of collaboration.

In the face of Australia’s accelerating waste crisis, a temporary structure in Albury by Raffaello Rosselli Architect lays bare the true cost of our reliance on hard plastic.

A proposal for a two-tower residential precinct in South Bank, which first won planning approval in 2011, is back before council with a reduced scale and new planned uses.

Executive director of Aerial Futures, Andrés Ramirez, ponders the significance of the airport typology.

Meg White, an architect with a 25-year background in set design and performance, is behind the design of the new La Mama Theatre.

A seventeen-storey tower on Sydney’s Pitt Street designed by BVN will open in 2020 and include an upmarket hotel, according to Intercontinental Hotels Group.

A $40 million property development in Adelaide — which was spruiked as a "new benchmark for energy and sustainability" — has been scrapped after apartments sat on the market for more than 18 months.

I. M. (Ieoh Ming) Pei, the architect behind the design of some of the world’s most recognizable and celebrated spaces, has died at the age of 102.

On the first leg of the 2019 Dulux Study Tour, the group found a city willing to embrace openness and experimentation for the public good as it undergoes major urban redevelopment.

Exposed brick walls, bare steel columns and timber roof trusses are examples of industrial design. Want to follow this trend, but not sure where to begin? Here's a crash course.

Designing the home theater of your dreams is like piecing a puzzle together — you need all the right elements for the perfect result.

Tracey Ingram explores a number of interiors around the world that highlight the importance of designing communal spaces in a contradictory epoch of hyper-connectivity and isolation.

The Planning Institute of Australia held its 2019 National Awards for Planning Excellence Ceremony on the Gold Coast on 15 May 2019, awarding people and projects from around Australia for outstanding achievements in planning.

Norwegian practice Snøhetta and Brisbane firm Blight Rayner Architecture have together beaten out 23 other design teams to win a design competition for a new theatre at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre.