Our Glassbook house in Tempe is nearing the finish line. We are really thrilled to see the structural bookshelves installed, and the soft light coming through the glassblock wall…perfect for reading. Can’t wait to populate those shelves and share more of this little gem!

Sibling were invited to participate at this year’s FRONT Design in Sydney’s Barangaroo. Qianyi was part of a panel discussion ‘Zest for Life: Design Strategies for Ageing in Place’ alongside industry experts Lorraine Calder from Australian Unity, Diane Jones from PTW and Harold Smith from Keppel Capital.

The lively discussion was chaired by Fiona Young, Hayball, and touched on various future living scenarios for an ageing population; including co-living arrangements, multi-generational communities and how technology enables greater autonomy in later life.

Are you an attendee or an activist? We are honoured to be taking part in this year’s conference, bringing you a reboot of our New Agency Guided Visualisation.

Curated by Monique Woodward (WOWOWA) and Stephen Choi, Collective Agency reminds us that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, and with unity comes an ability to affect an outcome. This year’s event will encourage reflection on today’s challenges, the articulation of more meaningful protocols, and most importantly, the willingness to act. Discussing what WAS (our shared understanding), what IS (our shared reality), and what COULD BE (our shared advocacy), Collective Agency is a dual state of doing and being.

See more about the conference and an outline of the full program here.

Earlier this month, Qianyi Lim of Sibling was invited to take part in Parlour’s Sydney Autumn Salon, with Fiona Young, Studio director of Hayball.

Qianyi and Fiona engaged in a public conversation on cultural heritage and how it impacts on practice, celebrating diversity in the workplace and the bamboo ceiling.

You can read more about the even here.

We are excited to announce our white on white textured retail space has been shortlised for an Inde Design Award under Shopping Space category. Check out the Inde Design Awards and the other shortlisted projects here!

We are thrilled that our Hello Houses in Port Fairy have been shortlisted for a Houses award for a new house under 200sqm.

Check out what great company we are in here.

Melbourne’s versus Sydney’s architecture? It’s a polemic that has been kept alive for over a century. ‘Melbourne, Sydney: References, Reflections and Remarks’ is a new publication that revisits this conflated rivalry, and we’ve contributed with a short essay on the Sydney architecture practice Trias.

Come along to the Sydney launch of ‘Melbourne, Sydney: References, Reflections and Remarks’ published by UTS School of Architecture’ The event will take place on Wednesday April 10, from 18:30 at the Architect’s Bookshop (499 Crown Street, Surry Hills). The book invited its protagonists to examine decades of architectural debate, controversy, and competition between both cities. Guest edited by Guillermo Fernández-Abascal and Urtzi Grau, the book includes texts by AKAS, Baracco+Wright, Andrew Burns, Angelo Candalepas, Scott Colman, Edition Office, Philip Goad, Tristen Hardwood, Mike Hewson, Louisa King, Andrew Leach, Carey Lyon, Desley Luscombe, Ian Moore, Other Architects, panovscott, Andrew Power, Howard Raggatt, Gerard Reinmuth, Richard Stampton, Naomi Stead, Luke Tipene, TRIAS, Leon Van Schaik and John Wardle and us.

We discuss the way we work and design together as well as our dreams for the future, in the profile of us in Frame Magazine.  You can read the full article here

With roots in ancient Chinese history, China’s plaza or square dancing has been developed over thousands of years. Due to its ease of participation, social and health benefits, it is said to have over 100 million practitioners worldwide and is practiced daily in key public spaces around the world. The dancers encourage participation among young people to promote multi-generational activity.

As part of Sibling’s New Agency exhibition, come along and join in on the modern combination of dance and exercise that is a fun and visual spectacle for people of all ages. Find us on Tuesday 5 March from 10 – 11.30am on Eastern Avenue, the University of Sydney.

The popularity of multi-generational households in Australia re-emerged in the 1980s. How does this affect our ageing population, and what housing typologies best support multi-generational living arrangements? Come along to Sibling’s exhibition New Agency at Tin Sheds in Sydney on March 4 to hear from Dr Edgar Liu and Casey Bryant as they discuss a multi-generational future in Australia. Book here.