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    Skinny hotel to ‘introduce elegance’ to Sydney skyline

    Crone Architects has designed a skinny hotel tower that will rise above Sydney’s booming Midtown precinct. With an estimated cost of more than $80 million, the proposed 35-storey recycled brick tower at 375 Pitt Street will feature a transparent, multi-storey podium with hospitality, retail and workplace spaces along with a hotel lobby. The development will […] More

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    City of Sydney unveils strategy for towering clusters

    City of Sydney has unveiled a new planning strategy for the city centre, which will allow for buildings of up to 330 metres to be built in new “clusters.” The strategy also calls for the simplification and unification of the central Sydney planning area to reabsorb The Rocks, Darling Harbour, Ultimo and Central Railway to […] More

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    Openwork designs sensorial garden for Heide Museum of Modern Art

    Openwork has designed a garden for the Heide Museum of Modern Art that will harness the curative and healing properties of plants. The Healing Garden will be planted between Heide founder Sunday Reed’s original heritage-listed kitchen garden and the Heide cottage. Circular in space, the design of the garden draws on the concept of proxemics, […] More

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    Victoria wasted the opportunity to build 12,000 public housing units, study finds

    Successive Victorian governments that have sold off public land to the private sector have wasted the opportunity to build public housing and address the state’s housing crisis, according to a study by urban researchers. The RMIT University study found that between 2000 and 2018, 578 hectares of Victorian public land parcels had been sold, which […] More

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    Cox designs civic centre for NSW-ACT border town

    The NSW-ACT border town of Queanbeyan is set for a significant transformation with a $74 million civic and cultural precinct designed by Cox Architecture. The development will be located on the site of the former council administration building and will be a focal point of the town’s CBD. It will become the head office for […] More

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    ‘Significant’ Sydney CBD development passes penultimate hurdle

    A two-tower office development proposed for Sydney’s Central Station precinct has cleared a major hurdle, winning approval to move to the third and final stage of the NSW government’s unsolicited proposal process. Proponents Dexus and Frasers Property Australia are calling the proposal “Sydney’s most significant CBD development in over a decade,” which would transform the […] More

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    'Rugged, sculpted' museum and gallery for Tasmania's north west

    Terroir has completed its concept design of the proposed North West Museum and Art Gallery in Burnie, Tasmania. The project, to be located along the Bass Highway, will bring together the Burnie Regional Art Gallery and Burnie Regional Museum into one facility. Terroir was appointed to design the facility by Burnie City Council after what […] More

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    Park at Queen's Wharf Brisbane underway

    The cement base has been poured for a new 6,500 square metre park that will extend out over the Brisbane River at the mammoth Queen’s Wharf development in Brisbane. Destination Brisbane Consortium, the developer behind the controversial casino resort project, showed journalists the park’s base on 29 April. “That park will be river’s edge seating, […] More