In 2018, OoPLA were invited to form part of the Workaround Exhibition at the RMIT Design Hub Gallery. WORKAROUND engaged with a movement of women focused on advocacy […]
A site-specific public installation of tactile indicators in the forecourt of the Immigration Museum, Urban Tactility highlighted how public art and design can make a contribution to conversations […]
How do you make a pavilion? This workshop for both kids and adults looked at what a pavilion is and how you might begin to design one. We […]
GLOW creates a new place made from existing urban elements… Drawing with light in our city, GLOW creates a new place made from existing urban elements. GLOW invites […]
Ray Edgar’s thoughtful preview on our upcoming Sensory City tour of RMIT’s New Academic Street for Open House Melbourne. Ray writes: Even if you can’t see Roy Grounds’ […]
As if the bollard-ization of Melbourne’s public spaces in 2017 weren’t enough, we’re ending the year with a bang – the announcement that Federation Square’s Yarra building is […]
Heidi Dokulil reviewed our “Design Your Own Pavilion” workshop at the MPavilion: “There are so many highlights from this year’s program – diverse as ever – that cover […]
There is a good reason why the word “architect” is frequently used in other fields. An architect has the capacity to recognize a complex problem, visualize an outcome and […]
McBride Charles Ryan: Metaphors of Knowledge What can architecture offer to education, beyond simply providing functional spaces that address different pedagogical requirements? The great body of educational architecture […]
A Question of Culture: Guest editorial of Issue 143 of AR Magazine by Christine Phillips, Stuart Harrison & Simon Knott “Culture is a big idea and there is […]
OpenHAUS has been invited to participate in the 2016 Lorne Sculpture Biennale. We spent an evening recently in St Kilda testing the pragmatics and ideas behind the GLOW […]
Ignited Imagination McBride Charles Ryan’s design for the new Penleigh and Essendon Junior Boys School is an outstanding result of the Federal Government’s Building the Education Revolution (BER) […]
Some thoughts on notablity… “Acknowledging women’s broader roles within the profession shifts architecture’s emphasis on individual notability to an understanding that to create truly notable works it takes […]
Sense & Sensibility: Ballarat Regional Integrated Cancer Centre For so many of us, an experience with cancer – either through our own diagnosis, or that of a loved […]
“There is no other public space in Melbourne that works like Federation Square or engages the broader population in the way that Federation Square does. Federation Square takes […]
“One of the most important roles of the public competition is to provide an interface between the architectural profession and a broader public. The reality is that for […]
Beginning with the question – What is… Architecture? – this discussion and debate series will unpack some of the issues that face us as architects. Join us for […]
OpenHAUS have been included in the catalogue for the Australian Exhibition at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale.
“The Australia Council’s procurement methodology stems from the perceived need to control the outcome and avoid risk. In a risk-averse culture it is not surprising that clients seek […]
Our opinion piece “The Australian Pavilion in Venice: art over architecture, or privilege over opportunity?” on the Australian Design Review was a top story in 2011. “Tania Davidge […]
“On 1 June 2011, at the 54th Venice Art Biennale, the Australia Council for the Arts announced plans for a new Australian pavilion in the Venice Giardini to […]
Why is an Open Competition for the New Australian Venice Biennale Pavilion Important? On 1 June 2011, at the 54th Venice Art Biennale, the Australia Council for the […]
On the first of November 2008, The Age newspaper (Melbourne, Australia) described architects as the “canary in the coalmine” of the economy. In light of the unstable global […]
OpenHAUS has been awarded the Bates Smart Award for Architecture in the Media: State from the Victorian Chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects for our Advertisements for […]
