Canberra House

Taking the theme ‘Shelter, house and home’ the Fifth Canberra Weekend of Ideas is a three day festival of talks, fine food and drink in the gardens of Manning Clark House at 11 Tasmania Circle, Forrest on 10, 11 and 12 March 2006. Speakers’ sessions take place under a large open marquee. Food, drinks and [...]

Chief Minister Jon Stanhope announced the appointment of Dr Michael Pearson as the new Chair of the ACT Heritage Council.
Pearson has been a member of the Heritage Council for three years. The council provides expert advice to the Minister and other Territory authorities on the identification and conservation of heritage places and objects in the [...]

Max Dupain donated many of his architectural photographs, taken from the 1950s through to the 1980s, to the Royal Australian Institute of Architects. Most were identified but a number of images were not fully documented.
During August 2004 thirty of the Dupain photographs were exhibited at the RAIA in Potts Point, along with copies of over [...]

The Canberra Chapter of the Walter Burley Griffin Society will host a lecture about Marion Mahony Griffin’s landscape art and architecture at the Shine Dome on Tuesday 25 October, 6pm. ‘The Silence of Mountains and the Music of the Sea’ will be presented by Christopher Vernon, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and [...]

Canberra is a young city. Due to World Wars and Depression, its early development came in fits and starts. As a result, there are few public buildings left from this period and even fewer examples of modernist public housing.
Take a look at them now, because before too much longer, these rare and unusual examples of [...]