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Following a design competition, a jury has chosen Durbach Block Jaggers (DBJ), Ohio Studio and Aspect Studios’ proposal for the redevelopment of Perth’s Indiana Tea House at Cottesloe Beach. However, the jury’s preferred design is different to a proposal that was chosen in a vote open to the public, and as such, the owner of […] More
Melbourne Design Week will return for its fourth consecutive year in March with a bumper program of more than 300 events over 11 days. Themed “How can design shape life?,” the program is divided into five broad pillars: design culture, waste, healthy cities, waterfront, and design evolution. “From tackling e-waste to creating healthy cities and […] More
The first speakers have been announced for the 2020 National Architecture Conference, which will explore the changing role of architects in society under the theme of “Leverage.” Four individual speakers and two practices represented by multiple speakers form the initial line-up, including speakers from Boston, London, Mexico City, Scotland, and San Francisco. The speakers are: […] More
Tzannes and Fender Katsalidis have jointly designed an apartment complex in Sydney’s Roseberry that will add to the enormous level of development taking place in the area. The project site lies close to the Green Square district and is bounded to the east by Southern Cross Drive and the Australian Golf Club. Epsom Road Apartments […] More
The WA government has approved a long-embattled proposal for a pair of towers in South Perth, overturning a number of decisions by local planning bodies and the objections of locals. The Civic Heart project, designed by SS Chang Architects, comprises a 320-apartment development with a number of commercial tenancies on a triangular site. The towers […] More
Ghost Parking Lot was one of the eeriest, most sinister and most striking pieces of 20th-century land art. The lumpy shapes of automobiles were discernible beneath a gloopy blanket of grey-black asphalt, a landscape of parking – at a shopping mall in Hamden, Connecticut – in which the cars and the surface built for them […] More
City of Melbourne councillors have given the all-clear for a 34-storey mixed-use development at the south-western end of Collins Street, designed by Cox Architecture and Gensler Architecture. Still subject to final approval from the planning minister, the major project will see a vacant office tower on the corner of Collins and King streets and an […] More
The NSW Independent Planning Commission will undergo major reforms, the state’s planning minister has announced. The proposed reforms follow the NSW Productivity Commission’s review of the IPC at the request of the minister in October 2019. The Productivity Commission made 12 recommendations, including that “the minister formally [issue] directions on an agreed set of outcome-focused […] More
