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The eighth annual Sydney Architecture Festival, Australia’s leading festival celebrating architecture, design and the built environment, announced details of a focused program of events inspired by this year’s theme of ‘Connections: The Making of a Great City’, and invites participation in events across the city. It offers international and local insights into the city’s built environment with a packed program of architecture talks, exhibitions, panel discussions, films, children’s activities and open day events. Architectural tours will also be presented at locations across Sydney, including a special Festival hub in Parramatta.
The 2014 Sydney Architecture Festival will unveil a major new light art commission that will create a spectacular entrance to the 2014 Festival Hub at Grasshopper Bar, located in Temperance Lane in Sydney’s CBD, for the duration of the 10-day celebration of architecture and design.
The three dimensional light installation, titled HEXTIC, will come alive in the evenings of the Festival from 1 to 10 November, pulsating with light and 
responding to sound levels in Temperance Lane through embedded audio sensors that will trigger dynamic images created from LED lighting. The creative light installation was inspired by the shape of hexagons and water droplet ripples and has been designed using interactive digital technology by UNSW students in the Australian School of Architecture and Design, led by Dr Hank Haesler, Rebekah Araullo and Eliot Rosenberg.
Another first for the Festival this year is a new guided walking tour of Sydney’s lane ways, goat tracks and rat runs presented for one-night only on Monday 3 November. The free ‘Covert Connections’ tour reveals a hidden world of connections throughout Sydney’s CBD, starting near Baxter’s Inn on Clarence Street, before travelling through hidden doors and foyers, including a barbershop on York Street, before finishing at Grasshopper Bar in Temperance Lane. The guided tour will reveal insights into lane way culture as well as historical links between building codes and gin drinking and the future of lane ways for our city.
The Sydney Architecture Festival is presented by 
the Australian Institute of Architects (NSW Chapter) and the NSW Architects Registration Board with common ground in efforts to create a better understanding of architecture.
2014 Sydney Architecture Festival
1 to 10 November, 2104
Sydney CBD and Parramatta
