Open House Melbourne

Open House Melbourne Weekend

A generous city gives more than it takes. It welcomes participation, opens doors and minds and creates space for everyone to belong. A generous city shares what it has: welcoming public places, buildings that invite participation and infrastructure designed with empathy and equity in mind. It shares knowledge, celebrates diversity and helps us see the city differently.

Across 24–26 July, Generous City invites us explore how we can design a more open, equitable and compassionate city that gives back, looks after one another and makes space for everyone.

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Open Nature Design Ideas Competition Winner

Open House Melbourne is delighted to announce Molly Stanko as the winner of At the Edge: A Platform for Presence Design Ideas Competition as part of Open Nature: Jacksons Creek biik wurrdha.

View the entries and read the jury citations with the link below.

When funding falls short, good design loses

Open House Melbourne has launched their Good Design Matters campaign, calling on the Victorian Government to commit to long-term, stable funding for our organisation. For nearly 20 years, we have opened doors to Victoria’s most significant and unique buildings and places, giving tens of thousands of people direct access to architecture and design. Our programs...

Open Nature Student Design Competition Shortlist Announced

An initiative of Open House Melbourne, the student design ideas competition A Platform for Presence invited students and emerging landscape architects (up to five years post-graduation) to consider a conceptual platform within Jacksons Creek biik wurrdha Regional Parklands. Entrants were asked to imagine a small-scale, conceptual intervention that offers new ways of seeing, sensing and relating to...

Stories of the City

Across Melbourne, every building, street and public place tells a unique story. Shaped by its transformation over time and the diverse communities that live here, the city is more than its bricks and mortar—the city is about people and place. The stories of our city are embedded in its urban landscapes and the people who...

63,000+ people RE/DISCOVER the city

The Open House Melbourne 2024 July Weekend festival was enthusiastically embraced, attracting over 63,000 in-person and online visits including open buildings, tours, talks, events, exhibitions and online programs.

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Let's keep the doors open to good design.