Linda Cheng

‘Plyscraper’: Word of the Year finalist

News | Australia’s Macquarie Dictionary has named “plyscraper” as one of its 2016 Word of the Year finalists.

Car-free apartments prevail in Melbourne

News | Two proposed architect-led Nightingale housing developments will proceed after both were approved.

Int’l competition to design an island

News | LA+ journal has launched a US$10,000 international ideas competition to design a hypothetical island.

Harvard Uni to offer free online course

News | Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design will soon offer a free online architecture course.

2018 Venice Biennale: curators appointed

News | Irish architects Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara of Grafton Architects have been named curators of the 2018 Biennale.

A nostalgic angle: Acute House

Projects | A compact but generous home wrapped in cladding salvaged from the small Victorian cottage that was originally on the site.

Baugruppen in Australia

News | Two projects in Western Australia could see the German Baugruppen model of cooperative housing introduced in the state.

Fee-free architecture school to open

News | Architect Peter Zellner will establish a tuition-free, “post-studio” architecture school based in Los Angeles in 2017.

Studio Mumbai’s MPavilion opens

News | The 2016 MPavilion designed by Indian practice Studio Mumbai has opened in Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Gardens.

Sydney Opera House’s ‘biggest upgrade’

News | The NSW government has revealed working designs for a comprehensive upgrade of the World Heritage-listed Sydney Opera House.