• Event

    Sydney Festival 2012

    Sat, 7 Jan - Sun, 29 Jan 2012

    Various Sydney venues, Sydney

    There's something amazing to do every single night as the city becomes a summer wonderland.

  • News

    The World’s First Functional Painting Typewriter

    To the delight of fetishists of redundant technology, an American artist has created a typewriter that paints.

  • News

    A Guide to this Summer’s Best Beach Reads

    In attempt to help out those with a literary whim, Concrete Playground presents the ten best books to read this summer.

  • News

    Concrete Playground’s Summer Road Trip Essentials

    Road trips can be an idealised summertime activity, so Concrete Playground has come up with some tips to make sure you never have a bad one again.

  • News

    Win a Double Pass to Tiger Translate

    Concrete Playground has ten double passes to give away to attend the artistic, musical and beer-infused extravaganza that is Tiger Translate.

  • News

    Concrete Playground Interviews Geoffrey O’Connor

    Geoffrey O’Connor is bringing his polite heartbreaker brand of cool to Sydney.

  • News

    Concrete Playground’s Guide to Sydney Festival 2012

    The reinvigorated Sydney Festival has completely transformed our city in summer and it’s made Sydney a truly amazing place to be in January.

  • News

    Wendy’s Secret Garden

    Wendy's Secret Garden is a small testament to heartbreak hidden amongst the skyscrapers that line the city's foreshore.

  • News

    Helsinki Named 2012 World Design Capital

    Helsinki is not only a city of freezing winters and scary death metal bands, but the world's capital of innovative and sustainable design.

  • News

    Spike Jonze Directs Stop-Motion Skeletal Love Story

    The acclaimed director's latest short film has you falling in love with a pair of horny skeletons who come to life one night in a French bookshop.

  • News

    Brooklyn Man Turns His Life Into An Exhibition in a Dumpster

    In the ultimate act of not being able to let go, an artist has transferred the detritus of his past into a perusable dumpster.

  • News

    Hunter S. Thompson’s Hangover Cure

    The infamous Gonzo journalist has something to cure your throbbing head.

  • News

    David Bowie’s Face Graces the £10 Note

    The face of Ziggy Stardust is now official currency in the London suburb of Brixton.

  • News

    Ikea App Uses Facebook to Personalise Your Bedroom

    Ikea attempt to sell you their durable and inexpensive Swedish wares by aligning them precisely with your personality, lifestyle and tastes.

  • Bar

    The East Sydney Hotel

    113 Cathedral Street, Woolloomooloo

    This country-style pub provides live tunes on the regular — from blues and folk to mellow jazz.

  • News

    Semi-Fictional Audio Guides Narrate New York’s Museum Mile

    A conceptual sound collective and the French join forces to take you for a merry and blissfully confusing journey down Manhattan's Museum Mile.

  • News

    Micro-Hotel Sleepbox Makes Being In Transit Appealing

    The pod with bed and drop-down desk may mean the days of sleeping in airport food courts are well behind us.

  • News

    The Ten Best Festivals in Sydney

    Get ready to dance kids, because summer’s coming. Here is Concrete Playground's shortlist of Sydney’s best festival experiences.

  • Event

    Trent & Henry Launch Party

    Wed, 7 Sep, 2011

    Trent&Henry, The Rocks

    Emerging out of The Rocks Pop Up Project, Trent & Henry are opening a new design workshop, gallery and event space in the heart of the city's most sandstoney district.

  • Event

    Nirvana: Live At The Paramount

    Fri, 23 Sep, 2011

    Various cinemas in Sydney

    To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Nirvana's Nevermind the group's only known concert recorded on film is being screened for the first and only time.

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