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Planning consent granted for 35-storey Adelaide student accommodation tower
The proposal is among several student housing towers recently approved for Adelaide’s CBD, including one at the site of the Duke of York Hotel and another on the car park of the city’s oldest church.
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Melbourne architect shortlisted in Dubai urban design competition
The international competition tasked entrants with reimagining Dubai’s public spaces through the design of human-scale urban elements.
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Ball-Eastaway House by Glenn Murcutt
A 1983 house built for two artists in serene bushland north-west of Sydney came to typify Glenn Murcutt’s growing philosophy of “touching the earth lightly” – an approach centring humanity within nature, not above it.
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Park Street House by Michael Ong Design Office
With a garden courtyard at its heart, this restorative design flips a formerly inward-looking home, fulfilling the clients’ desire to bring the outside in.
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FJC Studio appointed for Campbelltown Arts Centre expansion
The firm’s approach will look to local landscape and culture while also considering the adaptive reuse of the existing centre to maximise sustainability.
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Architects Award under review from Fair Work Commission
The review, which aims to determine whether architects are underpaid, has received polarising responses from various industry bodies.
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Plans filed for 10-storey apartment building in Adelaide CBD
A development application proposing the establishment of a 10-storey residential building in Adelaide's CBD has been lodged with the South Australian Planning Commission.
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New report outlines national strategy for advancing decarbonisation in the built environment
A new report has found that only about half the workforce delivering Australia's $213 billion, five-year Major Public Infrastructure Pipeline is currently contributing to net-zero outcomes.
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Billard Leece Partnership opens Singapore studio as regional hub
The hub is intended to serve as a dedicated centre for BLP’s operations in Asia, building on the practice’s portfolio of healthcare projects in the region.
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'Affordable' housing tenants face $55 per week rent increase
A year after they moved into an "affordable" apartment in a new public-private housing development in inner Melbourne, Alix and Tiarn were told their rent would increase by 17 per cent. They say their experience highlights flaws in the model the Victorian government is using to redevelop its aging public housing towers.
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Meet the maker: Julian Leigh May
Julian Leigh May’s gothic, genre-defying designs transform household objects into haunting artworks, melding function with fantasy and personal experience with radical experimentation.
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Twin towers proposed in Parramatta
SJB’s design encompasses more than 700 build-to-rent apartments across two towers, as well as a hotel and retail podium, on a vacant lot opposite Parramatta’s train station.
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Timothy Hill: What is an architect, really?
In this episode of Design Speaks Weekly, Timothy Hill reflects on the current state of architectural process and explains his use of the term “little ‘a’ architect” as the 2025 Gold Medal tour gets underway.
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Former Brisbane paint factory a step closer to becoming arts hub
The approved rezoning of an 86-year-old former paint factory in Brisbane’s southside paves the way for a two-stage development featuring converted spaces for creative industries and a series of new apartment buildings.
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Balam Balam Place by Kennedy Nolan, Openwork and Finding Infinity
A site with a textured past is reinvigorated with new and reimagined spaces for community and creativity – where all are welcome and new chapters can begin.
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