Painting Industry News

Children’s health charity Royal Far West has commissioned Glenn Murcutt and Angelo Candalepas to design new beachfront headquarters.

Beulah International has submitted a planning application with the Victorian government for its much-hyped Southbank tower project, designed by UN Studio and Cox Architecture.

In North East Arnhem Land, the realization of a cultural centre – led by the Yolngu people – sets an important precedent for the creation of sacred Indigenous architecture.

LAVA and Aspect Studios have designed a new park featuring sunken plazas, rainwater-harvesting “plants” and a curvaceous walkway plan inspired by the site’s history in the centre of Ho Chi Minh City.

USG Boral has been lauded for its efforts in tackling the reported rise of respirable crystaline silica (RCS) cases.

HVG Facades’ Zintl aluminium cladding system makes for a surprising but effective and hardy alternative to timber, with 39 wood grain finishes to choose from.

An ambitious scheme for a new home for the Wayside, designed by Environa Studio and completed in 2012, led to the salvation of this vital community organization.

The modernist Peter Ice Cream factory administration building in Melbourne's Mulgrave has been recommended for state heritage listing by the executive director of Heritage Victoria.

GHD Woodhead have designed a 28-storey hotel in central Adelaide, to be built on the site of a heritage-listed bank.

Four local and international architectural teams are shortlisted in competition to design a proposed $600 million tower in the centre of Brisbane.

Five Australian projects have been shortlisted in the 2019 World Architecture Awards special prizes.

In rethinking the “raise and build under” renovation strategy so often applied to Queenslander houses, Vokes and Peters has added an elegant layer to the narrative of this historically rich dwelling.

The Victorian Government has proposed a number of possible additions to its apartment design guide, with a focus on the way new developments relate to the existing environment.

The Design Institute of Australia has announced the winners of the 2019 Graduate of the Year Awards (GOTYA).

The Victorian government has begun a public consultation process over the governance of Melbourne’s Federation Square and the “way it functions as a public place.”

Residents in Sydney's evacuated Mascot Towers building are facing a repair bill of at least $10 million bill to fix cracks in the building, with owners set to vote on a special levy to fund repairs to the building.

A handful of residents moving back into Sydney's cracked Opal Tower are met with apartments with no water and an ongoing construction site — but the builder claims the building's repairs and owner-complaints have been handled in an "exemplary" way.