As part of Milan Design Week, DuPont™ Corian® celebrated 50 years of design innovation. Part of the celebration included the launch of the new “Corian® Design” publication which showcases “The Corian® 50” to celebrate fifty years in design & architecture. The designers & architects profiled include Zaha Hadid, Patricia Urquiola, Richard Meier, Amanda Levete, Ettore Sottsass, Karim Rashid, Jean Nouvel, Marc Newson, and other notables.

Included in this stellar line up is Mal Corboy from Mal Corboy Design, a prominent New Zealand kitchen, bathroom and interior designer, with over two decades of experience working with Corian®. Mal’s kitchen for a clifftop home in Waiheke Island near Auckland showcasing Corian® and Zebrano wood was the featured project. This kitchen also earned him a SBID International Design award in 2014.

Mal’s kitchen was one of only three featured – the other two were designed by Zaha Hadid for Ernestomeda and Daniel Libeskind (who Mal admires immensely) for Poliform.

The good news for Australia is Mal will be visiting Australia to speak at DesignBUILD being held in Sydney from May 3-5. Mal’s session will be held on Wednesday May 4 at 10:00 and tickets are available here.

DesignBUILD will be the first building and architectural event to be held at Sydney’s 1.5 billion International Convention Centre designed by HASSELL + Populous and the keynote speaker has been confirmed as Michael Lockwood, the Global Design Director at Populous’ Convention Center practice.

Event Manager, Jamie Butler-Underwood, said the ICC location provides the ideal platform to inspire and inform about how grand building visions become realities.

“Delegates will get a unique perspective of the current state of our industry but also receive unprecedented access to this brand new venue, through a series of bespoke breakfasts, lunch and cocktail functions, as well as exclusive behind-the-scene venue tours,” said Butler-Underwood.

For the first time, DesignBUILD will co-locate with long-term partner, the Australian Institute of Architecture’s National Conference. The event will also welcome first time partner, the Planning Institute of Australia, who will also be co-locating their own National Conference, creating an architectural and planning hub at the new International Convention Centre (ICC), Sydney.

DesignBUILD 2017 will see the Sydney launch of DesignBUILD RAW an exciting initiative to showcase the very best of emerging talent, run in partnership with the University of New South Wales, University of Sydney and the University of Technology Sydney. Students will be invited to design the two speaker theatres and the incubator pavilion. Rachel Couper from Sydney University’s Innovation in Applied Design lab said “The forum provides a fantastic opportunity to engage industry and enhance our student’s understanding of the design process through a realised project.”

DesignBUILD 2017 event is already set to be 20% larger than previous year and 40% larger than the award winning 2015 event, the last event held in Sydney. Registration is now open – click to register free.