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The City of Melbourne wants to see a public library relocated to Federation Square, under a proposal it has submitted to the Victorian government’s review of central Melbourne’s most important public space. The council says it would consider investing $15 million to the relocation of City Library, currently located in Flinders Lane, as well as […] More
Gold Coast council has revealed early plans for a 200-hectare park that it says will be the most important public space in the city. The Greenheart project will create a park roughly similar in size to Sydney’s Centennial Parklands that can hold more than 25,000 people at any given time. A draft preliminary masterplan imagines […] More
A collaborative research building at the University of Wollongong, designed by Jacobs and Denton Corker Marshall, has been completed. Dubbed “Molecular Horizons,” the building’s design is informed by the exacting requirements of the highly sensitive equipment inside, including cryo-electron microscopes and super-resolution optical microscopes that will be used for research. The centre supports researchers in […] More
Adelaide Festival’s visual art program “Adelaide//International” is this year focusing on architecture and how it shapes people’s experience of the world. The exhibition series at the Anne and Gordon Samstag Museum of Art at UniSA’s City West Campus will feature five discrete exhibitions exploring notions of experience, time and architecture. The exhibitions are running for […] More
Australian architecture schools have, for the most part, fallen slightly in the latest edition of the annual QS World University Rankings. The University of Melbourne and University of Sydney continue to rank most highly among Australian schools, coming in at 17th and 18th respectively, with the latter sharing the spot with China’s Tongji University. In […] More
From a “modern day Machu Picchu” to “cool mysterious interiors,” we sample some of the most notable projects by the first all-female duo to win the Pritzker Prize. Irish architects Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara made history when they were announced as the first all-woman duo to win the most prestigious award in international architecture, […] More
The organizers of the Venice Architecture Biennale have postponed the opening of the event in response to the outbreak of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Italy, slashing the six-month festival to just three. The Biennale will now run from 29 August to its originally scheduled closing date of 29 November. It was originally scheduled to open […] More
Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara of Dublin-based Grafton Architects have been awarded the 2020 Pritzker Prize, marking the first time architecture’s highest honour has been awarded to two women. It’s also just the second time the prize has not been given to a man, or a team including a man, since Zaha Hadid won it […] More
