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.

New Agency, Sibling’s exhibition which examines the futures of dwelling through the lens of an ageing population, will be reinstalled at the Sydney Design Festival during March.

How will you grow old? Can you live forever? What kind of ancestor do you want to be? Will your house outlive you? New Agency: Owning Your Future is a design research project that poses these questions. Taking the form of a public investigation, the audience is a participant in Sibling Architecture’s research within the gallery to examine and discuss the futures of dwelling through the lens of an ageing population. Visitors engage with a series of activities within Tin Sheds Gallery: exploring precedents on a spinning lazy Susan, a guided meditation, and sketching out their desires via a survey.

A series of events accompany the exhibition where ageing experts, architects and community members meet for conversations on the futures of housing and Australia’s ageing population. New Agency: How will you live in the future? For opening hours, please visit the Tin Sheds website here

There is still time to participate in Sibling’s research project New Agency, which investigates the future of housing through the lens of an ageing population. The first iteration of the project was an exhibition that took place at RMIT Design Hub in 2018 where gallery visitors could participate in a survey, which will inform the next stage of the research. Take part in our research by responding to the online questionnaire to help us re-imagine the future. Read more about New Agency here.

What is the role of women in architecture? Join the Australian Institute of Architects on the 26 of November at Tusculum for Gill Matthewson’s presentation on new data analysis that reveals the role of women in architecture along with a discussion panel between practitioners for the need for the change with Andrew Nimmo, Jess Murphy, Leone Lorrimer and Sibling’s Qianyi Lim.

The city is occupied by diverse groups of people with a variety of needs, but does architecture always accommodate for the needs of its user? In this discussion at MPavilion on November 10, designers, architects, activists and professionals discuss how to create more inclusive environments. Speakers include Margherita Coppolino, Jax Jacki Brown, Celeste Carnegie, Anthony Clarke, Tania Davidge and Jane Caught of Sibling Architecture.

Thoughtful and clever design can make sure our urban streets and parks are safe and vibrant places. Through design, ordinary places can be made extraordinary. Gemma Savio (Savio Parsons Architects), Ela Glogowska (Perumal Pedavoli Architects/Studio [R]) and Qianyi Lim (Sibling Architecture) speak about past and present projects on November 7 at Sydney’s Inner West Council offering fresh thinking for the future.

Join a round table discussion at ACCA on the intersection of form, space and movement in contemporary practice with speakers Jo Lloyd, Simone Slee, Fleur Watson and Sibling’s Jane Caught on October 30. Together they will consider the social potential of sculpture, the idea of deceptive materiality as well as the negotiation between colour, space, scale and disruption in relation to our experience of sculpture.