Painting Industry News

Negative sentiment around the property sector has started to make its way into the marketplace since the federal budget, but real estate experts say it may prove to be good news for first-home buyers. 

Corten-clad "tents" on a cattle property outside Orange continue a decades-long exploration of minimal shelter and maximum engagement with the Australian landscape.

The $1.6 billion project will deliver approximately 1,000 homes and a major mixed-use program including accommodation, and commercial, retail and public space.

Alan Croker pays tribute to Sydney architect Lionel Glendenning, architect of the Powerhouse Museum in Ultimo, remembering him as passionate architect whose concern for a sustainable future for the built environment and the planet was always front-of-mind in his work. concerned for our responsibility, care and stewardship (or lack thereof) of the built environment.

ArchitectureAu Asks the Brisbane property economics expert, “Construction costs are rising again – will it get worse for architects before it gets better?”

Inspired by the subtleties of Japanese design and the reparative properties of light and landscape, Brisbane architect John Ellway designs quiet houses that shun spectacle in favour of calm settings that enrich daily life.

Adelaide Design Week (ADW) will return in 2026 following a successful inaugural program, with expressions of interest now open to participants across the design spectrum.

In South Melbourne, Swop transforms a former warehouse into a gallery-like retail space, where light, volume and collectible design reframe resale as a slower, more immersive experience.

This year’s Federal Budget promise to grant free access to mandatory Australian Standards has received wide support from peak industry bodies.

Strategically positioned between a university and hospital campus, a new translational research building optimises opportunities for collaboration to deliver innovations in, and better outcomes for, patients’ health.

A beach house with a brutalist character and a climate-responsive learning hub

The architect and landscape architect for the city’s forthcoming Town Hall Square – more than four decades in planning – have been appointed following a competitive tender process.

The greenlit residential and retail precinct aims to be “a new focal point” for a key intersection in Melbourne’s southeast suburb of Kew.

Melbourne-based designer Joanne Odisho has won the 2026 Australian Furniture Design Award (AFDA) for her modular lighting design, Mod-u, announced this week by the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) and Stylecraft as part of Melbourne Design Week.

A light-touch renewal of a familiar community structure and an elemental cabin immersed in nature have taken out the top prizes at this year’s awards.