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    $500m South Australian medial research centre underway

    Construction is set to begin on a $500 million 12-storey medical research building designed by Woods Bagot. To be known as the Australian Bragg Centre, the building is the latest addition to the Health and Biomedical Precinct on Adelaide’s North Terrace. It will sit adjacent to the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI) […] More

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    Design unveiled for vertical school campus at historic gasworks site

    The Victorian government has unveiled designs for a new multi-level school campus featuring a stepped rooftop space traversing four levels. Designed by GHD Woodhead and Grimshaw, the $84 million inner-north campus will accommodate senior students from Fitzroy High School and Collingwood College at the site of the Fitzroy Gasworks redevelopment. “This new senior school campus […] More

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    A hidden secret: Part Time Lover

    There’s a contemporary style in spatial illustration that you can see in any design school or artisanal lifestyle magazine like Frankie or Monocle. It has a certain planar, crisp quality, full of personable occupants and appealing details that suggest attention to elevating the daily things of life. Walking into new bistro Part Time Lover, in […] More

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    University of New England shortlists nine design teams to transform its brutalist boiler house

    The University of New England has announced the shortlisted candidates who will prepare detailed designs and budgets for the conversion of its decommissioned boiler house. The $15.25 million Boilerhouse Discovery Space project will transform the extant structure into an interactive children’s space for science, technology, engineering, arts and maths. It will have a “STEAM-punk” theme. […] More

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    Sutherland Entertainment Centre designs finalized

    Final designs for the $21.8 million refurbishment of the 40-year old Sutherland Entertainment Centre building in southern Sydney have been placed on public exhibition. The venue, originally known as the Sutherland Civic Centre, “holds an important place in the collective memory of the Sutherland community” according to the architects, Chrofi and NBRS Architecture. Their scheme […] More

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    Open House Melbourne 2020 offers 'Australia’s largest collection of virtual tours'

    More than 50 significant buildings across Melbourne will (virtually) open to the public this July as part of the Open House Melbourne weekend. The organizers of the annual event have collaborated with Phoria, a Melbourne immersive technology studio, to digitize the buildings and create Australia’s “largest collection of virtual tours.” Among the buildings on show […] More

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    Adelaide's historic Her Majesty’s Theatre opens after major redevelopment

    A historic Adelaide theatre has re-opened after a major redevelopment designed by Cox Architecture. Her Majesty’s Theatre, located on Grote Street, is Adelaide’s oldest continually operating performance venue. Originally designed by Adelaide architects David Williams and Charles Good, it was described when it opened in 1913 as “the most luxuriously appointed theatre in Australia.” The […] More