The AAA Membership Gift Pack—a great Christmas gift for that active relative/friend who has everything, it includes:

• 1 year membership of AAA
• free admission to all walking tours
• reduced ticket prices to popular residential bus tours
• 25% off tickets to Black talks

Gift Cost: $165 or $75 (if recipient is senior)

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Keeping up the AAA’s tradition of branding events with a colour, the fundraising event has been called Blue.

The first Blue event is being held on Thursday 16 November.

Cocktails will be served in the superb Seidler apartment from 6.30-8.30pm as the sun sets over Sydney’s spectacular harbour. And naturally a special Blue cocktail has been developed for the event.

Bid for a unique item

Amongst the collection of interesting items to bid for is a copy of the Utzon book that has been personally signed by Jorn Utzon.

There is also a brief holiday at the Cable Beach Resort or a dinner party for 8 guests in the Seidler apartment.

Music will be provided by Opus 2.

Click here to download the invite

Click here to download a booking form

Or call 02 8297 7283

For the second year in a row the AAA is staging an exhibition in Customs House, Circular Quay to mark World Architecture Day and Architecture Week.

This year the exhibition is also part of Sydney City Council’s Art and About Festival.

Curated by Gerard Reinmuth, the theme follows on from last year’s Young Architects Exhibition that looked at the practices where at least one principal was under 40.

This year the focus is on young collaborators in large architecture practices.

Allen Jack+Cottier, Bligh Voller Nield, Johnson Pilton Walker, Lacoste + Stevenson Architects, Ian Moore Architects, NSW Government Architect’s Office, and PTW Architects are the participating firms.

Glenn Murcutt, AAA Founding President will officially open the exhibition at 6.30pm on Wednesday 27 September. Call the AAA booking line 02 8297 7283 if you would like to attend.

There will also be a free public lecture by all the participating architects on Monday 16 October at 6pm in the Barnet Long Room, Customs House. Although it’s free—you still need to reserve a place (call 02 8297 7283).

Open daily – Mon-Fri 8am-7pm, Sat 10am-4pm and Sun 12noon-4pm the exhibition runs until 20 October.

All the tours for SD06 are sold out (but we have more: read below). There has been a wonderful response to our programme of 30 tours that we put on during the Sydney Design Festival from 5 to 20 August.

Feedback from tour participants has been overwhelmingly positive with rave reviews for many of the tours. Peter John Cantrill received a ‘1st class’ response, whilst another participant on the tour of Harry Seidler towers said ‘Gevork was awesome’ of the tour leader Gevork Hartoonian.

The combination of a beautifully designed Steel house by James Grose with a tour of Bluescope Steel’s steelmaking plant also drew highly positive responses including ‘It was an excellent tour in every way’. This despite the fact that everyone was required to don considerable safety gear as demonstrated in this collector’s photo of the AAA Directors Stella de Vulder on the left and Annette Dearing on the right with Sarita Chand.

There are still places left on some of this year’s remaining tours, download the brochure here, make a booking and find out why the AAA receives such positive feedback to the tours.