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NewsIKEA Launches New Non-Disposable Furniture Collection with Danish Designers HAY
The Swedish chain hopes its Ypperlig collaboration is one you won't throw away when you move house.
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NewsMelbourne's Queen Victoria Market Is Getting an Elevated, Greenhouse-Style Pavilion
It'll temporarily house vendors during the market's five-year renewal.
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NewsJardan's New Flagship Store Has Been Designed Around the Shifting Colours of Sydney
The blues, greens and oranges are a nod to some of Australia's art and design icons.
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NewsVictorians Can Help Name Melbourne's Five New Underground Train Stations
One idea has already been ruled out: Station McStationface.
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NewsThis Tiny Mobile House Takes Compact Living to the Next Level
Two storeys of tiny, timber-panelled living space.
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NewsThese Melbourne Venues Have Been Nominated for the 2017 Eat Drink Design Awards
The shortlist for Australia and New Zealand’s only hospitality design awards program has officially dropped.
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GuideThe Best Places to Buy and Order Plants in Melbourne for 2024
There's a whole world of plants out there — here's where to find them.
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GuideWhere to Shop Like a Local In and Around Melbourne CBD for 2024
Some of the best small businesses in the city can be found in the CBD's laneways, alleys and arcades.
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GuideSeven Vivid Sydney Highlights You Need to Add to Your Winter Calendar
With pop-up cabaret bars, thought-provoking conversations and free live music, the 2022 run of Vivid Sydney is set to shine bright.
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GuideMelbourne's Best Florists for Making Grand Gestures
There's nothing like a big, vibrant bunch of freshly-cut blooms to turn a frown upside down.
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NewsEight Stunning Locally Made Jigsaw Puzzles for When Boredom Strikes (Again)
Got too much time to kill? Instead of flicking on the TV, give these beautiful, brain-tickling gems a go.
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GuideThe Best New Melbourne Spaces of 2021
We've rounded up the most stunning buildings and venues unveiled in Melbourne this year.
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NewsAll the Best Australian-Made Picnic Gear for Your Next Park Session
Keep your drinks cool and your shopping local when you plan your next picnic outing.
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GuideSix of This Year's Biggest Boxing Day Sales
Score up to 70 percent off wine, cruelty-free makeup and activewear at these online sales.
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GuideSix of This Year's Biggest Black Friday Sales
Score up to 70 percent off reusable cups, homewares and sportswear at these online sales.
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GuideWhere To Shop Like a Local in and Around Brighton
These great bayside businesses are well worth a look in.
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NewsThis New Sydney Development will Include a Large Chunk of Social and Affordable Housing
As part of the NSW Government's Communities Plus project, the new Macquarie Park estate will include social housing for 950 tenants.
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NewsThis Queensland Couple Makes Customisable Ceramic Keep Cups
Each Pottery for the Planet cup blends style and sustainability.
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NewsArt Series Hotels Sells Boutique Collection for $52 Million
Australia's famously artist-themed hotels like The Olsen, The Cullen and The Chen have been acquired by Mantra Group.
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Gallery: Check Out the Ultra-Luxurious Winners of the 2017 Houses Awards
Get some renovation inspiration.
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NewsThis New Range of Designer Water Bottles Are Flat Enough to Fit in Your Pocket
They've just been funded through a record-breaking Kickstarter campaign.
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NewsSydney Is in the Running to Become the 2020 World Design Capital
A year-long program of design events could be headed Sydney's way, and a two years' worth of bragging rights as well.
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NewsYou Will Soon be Able to Stay at an Immersive Star Wars-Themed Hotel
Help Luke Skywalker in his struggle against the Galactic Empire, get rescued by R2D2 or face off with Darth Vader.
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NewsThe Designs for Melbourne's New Metro Tunnel Have Been Revealed
Take a look at the five new train stations that will be added to the city's rail network.
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NewsThe NGV's Garden Is Getting a New Openair Designer Maze
'Garden Wall' is the NGV's 2017 Architecture Commission.
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NewsAesop Teams Up with Composer Jesse Paris Smith to Launch Multi-Sensory Room Sprays
The Australian skincare brand has just released its first ever range of scents for the home.
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NewsSouth Yarra's Getting a New Large-Scale Community Hub
The Yarra One atrium will feature cafes, restaurants, and retailers, alongside tiered seating, marking the space's potential as a cultural hub.
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NewsMelbourne's MPavilion Unveils Its 2017 Architecture Commission
This year's amphitheatre-like temporary structure will have two grandstands, native plants and a translucent gridded roof.
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EventMr West Presents Northwest Connect
Fri, 19 Dec 2025 - Sun, 1 Feb 2026
Various Melbourne venues, Melbourne
Expand your horizons, as four venues — two in Footscray and two in Carlton — invite guests to drink and dine in celebration of the new Metro Tunnel's launch.
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EventYoung Franco at AO Hilltop
Sun, 18 Jan, 2026
Birrarung Marr, Melbourne
Ring in the start of the Australian Open's main draw action with this free high-energy gig set against the city skyline.
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EventLimited-Edition January Flavours at Pidapipo
Thu, 1 Jan - Sat, 31 Jan 2026
Various Melbourne locations, Melbourne
Available for one month only, this selection of limited-edition scoops might just be the best way to catch a break from the January heat.
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EventRooftop Racquet Club at QT Melbourne
Thu, 8 Jan - Sun, 1 Mar 2026
QT Melbourne, Melbourne
Keep an ace up your sleeve this summer, as this glamorous hotel serves up a rooftop pickleball court, signature cocktails and late-night DJs.
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EventSummer Under The Roof: Quealy Winemakers and D.O.C Gastronomia Mornington
Sat, 27 Dec 2025 - Sun, 25 Jan 2026
Quealy Winemakers, Balnarring
Fill your weekends with award-winning wine and top-quality pizza, as this vine-side collaboration takes over summer with culinary goodness.
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EventDome Under Fulldome Festival
Fri, 30 Jan - Sun, 1 Feb 2026
Scienceworks, Spotswood
Head to Melbourne Planetarium to see 39 films from around the world at Australia's only fulldome film festival.
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EventLibrary on the Lawn: Kids Festival at State Library Victoria
Multiple single dates
State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
Add more reading time and kid-friendly entertainment to your summer holidays schedule, from storytime sessions to scavenger hunts.
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EventThe Royal Family Dance Crew Presents 'Defend the Throne'
Wed, 27 May - Sun, 7 Jun 2026
Hamer Hall, Southbank
Global street-dance icons The Royal Family Dance Crew will headline RISING 2026 with 'Defend the Throne,' a high-energy showcase blending 14 years of their most iconic choreography with brand-new work ...
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EventLu-Niverse: Countess Luann at Melbourne Recital Centre
Mon, 23 Feb, 2026
Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank
Be cool, as this reality TV star brings her infectious energy to Melbourne for a tea-spilling deep dive into a slew of wild moments.
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EventCarlsberg Beach Club
Fri, 19 Dec 2025 - Thu, 29 Jan 2026
Frankston Waterfront, Frankston
Get ready for European holiday vibes, sunset sessions, and free live music just 45 minutes from Melbourne.
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NewsA Look Inside Australia's First Capsule Hotel
Sydney's former cheap drinks den Bar Century is now home to 70 accommodation capsules that wouldn't look out of place in The Fifth Element.
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NewsOpen House Melbourne Announces Huge Tenth Anniversary Program
Hear from internationally-esteemed architects, do a walking tour of Melbourne's new rail tunnel or peek into some Grand Designs-worthy homes.
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NewsThese Terrarium Lights Add a Mini Hanging Garden to Any Room
Turn your overhead light fixtures into a stunning source of greenery.
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NewsFootscray Finds Is the Inner West's New Monthly Market
It will sell everything from vintage to vinyl to vegan food.
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NewsTokyobike Has Released a Covetable New Designer Bicycle Series
Three slick new bikes from New York's Everything Elevated, Brooklyn's Calico Wallpaper and Joe Doucet.
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NewsThis Swedish Golden Egg-Shaped Sauna Is the Ultimate Outdoor Meeting Room
Artists Bigert and Bergström call it a "social sculpture", a space for locals to discuss their town problems.
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NewsMuji Is Selling Tiny Pre-Fab Huts
The immaculately-designed twelve square metres of space even comes with a patio.
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NewsThis Proposed Vending Machine Skyscraper Prints Customisable Homes Onsite
The innovative design takes a tall structure, a busy city, 3D printing and tiny apartments, and throws them into a futuristic blender to conceive the ultimate mashup.
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NewsThis Eye-Catching Development Takes Inspiration From An Ancient Wonder
The proposed Birmingham buildings aim to recreate Babylon's fabled Hanging Gardens.
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NewsOne of the World's Thinnest Towers Could Soon Join the Gold Coast's Skyline
The metro's penchant for polarising beachfront skyscrapers continues.
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NewsAirbnb Is Selling 'Incomplete' Rings to Campaign for Australian Marriage Equality
Designed by Australian industrial designer Marc Newson, the rings will launch the company's #UntilWeAllBelong campaign.
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NewsMelbourne Is Getting a 2.5-Kilometre Elevated Bicycle Highway
The 'veloway' will sit above Footscray Road as part of the West Gate Tunnel Project.
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NewsFrance's New Spiral Skyscraper Takes the Vertical Garden Trend to Great Heights
A "continuous vertical landscape" will spiral around the outside of the building like a ribbon of greenery.
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NewsAustralian Interior Design Awards Reveals 2017 Shortlist
More than 100 stunning interior designs have been selected from a record number of 525 entries.
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NewsThe State Library of Victoria to Undergo a Massive $88 Million Renovation
The redevelopment will open up 40 percent more space to the public.
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NewsThis Greenery-Filled Table Turns An Indoor Garden Into a Living Work of Art
As well as brightening up your house, it's irrigation system is designed to stop over-watering.
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NewsThis Sky-High Building Design Casually Hangs From An Asteroid
The latest high-rise design doesn’t just scrape the sky, it literally falls from it.
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NewsCheck Out This Insane Proposal For The World's Longest Skyscraper
Fittingly named The Big Bend, it would stretch 1.22 kilometres end to end.
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NewsPrahran's Cato Car Park to be Transformed Into a $60 Million Urban Park
It's set to be the Federation Square of the inner east.
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NewsThis Melbourne Pop-Up Transforms a Historic Watchmaker's Into a Mirrored Exhibition Space
The savvy design is reflective of MDW's spirit and reflective in the literal sense.
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NewsTen Things to Learn, See and Do During the First Ever Melbourne Design Week
Explore 'fake' design, queer architecture, virtual reality and killer whale chairs.
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NewsA Look Inside the Mornington Peninsula's Extravagant New Jackalope Hotel
It will have two restaurants, an infinity pool and a seven-metre sculpture at the entrance.
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NewsMelbourne Is Getting 'Female' Traffic Lights for International Women's Day
Ten pedestrian crossing lights will change from male to female representation today.
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NewsThe Queen Victoria Market to Get New Gallery, Artist Spaces and Community Centre
It's part of the precinct's $250 million renewal.
