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Walknorth Architects won the highest honour at the New South Wales 2022 Country Division Architecture Awards for their work on the Scribbly Bark House.

Completed in 2022 in Shanghai, China. Images by Chris Hardie, Fangfang Tian, RAWVISION Studio. Shanghai Library East, a new civic landmark and cultural destination in the world’s third most populous city, has opened. Designed by Schmidt Hammer...

The library will host 1,200+ lectures, seminars, performances, events, and activities for over 4 million visitors annually.

Commenting on the high quality and vibrancy of architectural practice in regional areas, NSW Regional Country Division jury chair Noel Thomson said, “Buildings in regional areas help to encourage social connections in a town. As the custodians of the built environment, architects are well-placed to deliver projects that increase these bonds and lift our regional areas.”

AILA president Claire Martin observed that the past 18 months had highlighted the strengths and vulnerabilities of our cities, underlining the need for public spaces to deliver fundamental social, environmental, and economic change.

A memorial plaque indicates the location of Margaret Olley's final resting place in the grounds of the Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art...

Share It is 10 years since Margaret Olley, one of Australia’s most-loved artists, died, bequeathing an initial $1 million to one of her favourite regional galleries – in Murwillumbah, at the heart of the Tweed Valley hinterland near Lismore in northern NSW, where she was born in 1923. A decade later, the renamed Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre has never attracted more visitors than over the past year since COVID-19 forced Australians to discover the glories in our own bac...