From shipping company storage in the 1930s, to air-raid shelters in the 1940s, the Howard Smith Wharves are soon to find a new purpose, with the plan for a complete revitalisation recently announced. more
With Tyler Brûlé recently in Brisbane to discuss the international travel market, we thought we’d take a look at the progress so far of the Brisbane Airport International Terminal redevelopment. more
Under the guidance of new directors Aileen Burns and Johan Lundh, The Institute of Modern Art (IMA) has reopened, boasting an updated space and brand-new bookstore. more
Bringing together designers, thinkers, innovators and collaborators, the inaugural Forecast Festival of Landscape Architecture will be inspiring industry conversation at the State Library of Queensland from October 16–18. more
Brisbane’s most iconic buildings will open up to the general public on October 11 and 12, allowing curious locals and visitors the chance to go behind the scenes and explore their history, engineering and architectural stories. more
With hotels in Barcelona, Madrid, Paris, New York, Berlin and Lisbon, Wyndam’s TRYP hotel has selected Brisbane for its latest incarnation, on Constance Street in Fortitude Valley. more
The trick to finding a hotel in Paris that isn't exorbitantly priced is to focus your search in one of the double-digit arrondissements. And that's also where you'll find some of the city's most creative new dwellings, including its latest gem, The Molitor, a hotel with two historic swimming pools as its centrepieces. more
Anyone with a penchant for Mad Men or modernist inklings should turn their attention towards the new Art House residential towers by Mirvac. more
Libraries used to be spaces of solace – librarians shushing if someone whispered too loud, books browsed quietly in corners, initials and dates written on paper slips within the jacket to record the borrower. These days, technology has altered the role of the humble library. These dens of knowledge now play host to workshops, computer stations, exhibitions and programs. more
Brisbane is set to be the first city in the world to acquire a NEXT Hotel, the flagship brand of Singapore-based SilverNeedle Hospitality. The boutique offering will take over the space formerly home to Chifley at Lennons in the Queen Street Mall, and is set to open on October 1. more
For the bounty of local skateboarders wanting a slick concrete slab on which to regularly practise kickflips and airwalk grabs, grand plans are in motion to extend Coorparoo Skate Park. more
The good folk behind Lightspace have set their sights on a new warehouse in Fortitude Valley to open a second co-working space. more
The 2014 Houses Awards were held at Sydney’s Doltone House Hyde Park last week, with nine winners and 21 commendations awarded across the eight categories. The top honour of Australian House of the Year was awarded to the Invisible House by Peter Stutchbury Architecture, which sees a residential dwelling exhibiting beautiful connection to its panoramic landscape in the Central Tablelands of New South Wales. Brisbane-based studio Owen and Vokes and Peters was the sole Queensland firm amongst the winners, receiving two commendations. The Panorama Drive property in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland received a commendation in the House Alteration and Addition under 200 sqm, which saw strategic interventions to an existing timber house. The studio’s West End Tower also received a commendation for House Alteration and Addition over 200 sqm. A full list of the awards results can be found… more
The Sunshine Coast studio of creative agency POMO has been named the Sustainable Building of the Year – Commercial Building at the Queensland Building Design Awards. Designed by creative director Stephen Burton and Simon Scott of SSB Design Studio, the tree house bush studio engaged locally sourced materials and labour to shape the sustainable workspace. more
What inspires you? To some the answers come swiftly and in abundance. To others, this question is a most vexing one. more
A heartwarming example of the beauty of collaboration, the new fit-out at Two Trees is the result of a bounty of local folk coming together. more
Brisbane Powerhouse’s latest exhibition Architecture: Made by Women launches an enquiry into gender, the design process and the role of gender in architecture. more
A space to create, converse and mull over ideas with others, a shared co-working studio gives individual entrepreneurs the community support of an office environment, while maintaining the space to knuckle down solo. The ever-increasing field of start-ups has opened a need for more joint workspaces to share with likeminded creatives. more
Last Friday evening, local architects dressed up in their finest threads and headed to the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre to hear who made the cut in the 2014 Queensland Architecture Awards. Projects from Brisbane and throughout the state were considered across 11 categories, with 34 projects receiving awards and commendations. more
Each year we peel back the pages of artichoke magazine with anticipation, hoping to see a few Brisbane-based cafes and restaurants amongst the beautiful venues that take out the top spots in Architecture Media’s annual Eat Drink Design Awards. While we appreciate that there is a surfeit of beautiful new cafes, bars and restaurants dotting the country (and our neighbour New Zealand) to choose from, we would love to see more of our city’s excellent locales recognised at a national level. more