Slash: Paper Under the Knife takes the pulse of the international art world's renewed interest in paper as a creative medium and source of artistic inspiration, examining the remarkably diverse use of paper in a range of art forms. Slash is the third exhibition in MAD's (Museum of Design and Art) Materials and Process series, which examines the renaissance of traditional handcraft materials and techniques in contemporary art and design. The exhibition surveys unusual paper treatments, includ...

Corbet Lyons and his family have been avid contemporary art collectors for over twenty years. When designing their home they wanted to effectively combine the program of a house and a gallery, providing a place to display, exhibit and live with their collection. Second Year design students were given the opportunity to visit this atypical residence to see how unusual elements can be combined in architecture. To achieve the true integration of gallery and residence the residential program is a...

Students from I.M.A.D.E, a division of Ball State University specialising in Digital Fabrication related to architecture and allied arts have developed a reactive lighting system that reacts to the viewer (supposedly allowing everyone to look like a supermodel - I'll believe that when I see it). Developed by students from “An Inconvenient Studio”, MorphoLuminescence utilizes an understanding of fashion photography to find its form and provide optimized lighting, enhancing the experience ...

Below is a brief review of Iron Designer from our friends at Phooey Architects. You’ll just have to ask them what exactly this catastrophic breakdown in communication actually entailed….. As we descended down the steps at BMW Edge and onto centre stage, the scene before us ignited our senses and got the well lubricated creative thoughts flowing. Masked with our ‘PHOOEY’ glasses the team speculated about what could emerge from these raw ingredients. However the nature of the design pro...

Diller Scofidio + Renfro, one of the shortlisted firms competing to design the Architecture School at Melbourne University have recently won a design competition to design the Museum of Image and Sound in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The building will include galleries, education rooms, an auditorium, a cafe, bars and restaurant, and an outdoor cinema on the roof. The most identifiable feature of the building is the vertical promenade which winds up the front façade of the building. This promena...

What happens when a multi-billion dollar computer and printer company decides to embrace the architecture industry, its supposed bread and butter industry? It puts on a competition with lots of expensive toys on offer as prizes and throws an expensively catered party. This was the outcome of the Cityscape 2020 architectural design competition whose winners were announced last Thursday. The winners were: 1st Tom Morgan – RMIT 5th Year “Broken and Remade” 2nd Ian Robertson – UNSW 5t...