Designer Meg Wilson is a maker of new worlds

Meg Wilson’s uncanny ability to create worlds that defy time and space will be on show in two major Adelaide productions premiering this month – with the dual offering solidifying her reputation as one of the city’s most in-demand theatre artists.

From the humble to the heroic: 2022 SA Architecture Awards

Each year the South Australian entries in the Australian Institute of Architects Awards showcase thought-provoking new architecture from across the state. Here we look at a selection of commercial, educational and public architecture vying for a prize.

Miniature marvels bring historic moments to life in Tiny Oz

An extraordinary slice of 19^th-century Adelaide history involving a pioneering hot-air-balloon flight, a pair of daredevil ‘lady trapeze artists’ and a crowd of fascinated onlookers is re-created in miniature in a new ABC TV series co-hosted by local tiny craft artist JoAnne Bouzianis-Sellick.

Adelaide’s towering tensions

Communities in Adelaide and other cities are pushing for a scale of development that suits their location and doesn’t steal their daylight, dwarf their backyard or destroy the character that gives soul to their streets.

Adelaide’s adventures with mid-century modernism

A new exhibition at the State Library brings to life a previously overlooked archive of Adelaide’s 20^th-century architectural gems.

Adelaide Festival review: Manifesto

Watching the Adelaide premiere of Manifesto feels less like viewing a performance and more like witnessing an explosive, ecstatic and primal phenomenon.

Joren Dawson, of Pulsing Heart, in the 'HEXADECA' sensory playground. Photo: Morgan Sette

Take a spin in a music-making playground

An architecturally designed ‘sensory playground’ debuting at WOMADelaide invites both children and adults to take seat and spin a soundtrack.

Silhouettes honours lost stars of the fashion world

A colourful new Adelaide exhibition celebrates the glamour of fashion during a particularly creative era, while also offering a poignant reminder of the ongoing HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Indigenous art embedded in new Granite Island causeway

The reopening of the Granite Island causeway at Victor Harbor has created an opportunity for local Indigenous artists to share two important Ngarrindjeri-Ramindjeri Dreaming stories now permanently embedded in the new structure.

Regenerating Adelaide – when simple sustainability is not enough

The climate crisis is now integral to any dialogue around architecture and design as the profession acknowledges its significant ongoing relationship with the natural world. This month we look at how local architectural practices are shifting the conversation around sustainability.

In the Studio with Dean Toepfer

Out the back of a cluster of industrial buildings in Kilkenny, designer and co-founder of Mixed Goods Studios Dean Toepfer is working to build his own practice, and a community around it.