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    Sydney office building to be topped with ‘active roof’

    Sissons Architects has designed a 12-storey office building at 50 Kent Road in Mascot, Sydney that will have a running track on its roof. The architects say the health and wellbeing of workers is central to the design of the 18,000 square metre building, which will feature extensive landscaped areas, designed with landscape architect Aspect […] More

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    Lyons-led team design mass timber building for Perth university

    Lyons Architecture in collaboration with Officer Woods, The Fulcrum Agency, STH and Aspect Studios have designed a major new academic building for Murdoch University in Perth that will be the first large-scale timber building in Western Australia to be constructed from locally sourced timber. The four-storey building will add 15,000 square metres of learning space, […] More

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    Urban advocate: Julie Stout

    Amelia Melbourne-Hayward: Did you always know that you wanted to be an architect? Julie Stout: I grew up in Palmerston North, which is hardly an architectural epicentre. My dad was a deer culler and then trained and worked as a draftsman. At 14, I remember coming home from school and announcing that I was going […] More

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    Consortium appointed for ‘city shaping’ Brisbane South Bank masterplan

    The consortium that will design a 30-year masterplan for Brisbane’s South Bank precinct has been announced. The group will be led by Urbis and includes Cox Architecture, as well as Arup, Cultural Capital, Complete Streets and international firms Gillespies and Projects for Public Spaces. Natalie Hoitz, design director of Urbis, said in a statement that […] More

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    Melbourne CBD street to be pedestrianized

    A section of Elizabeth Street in central Melbourne will be pedestrianized, under a finalized design for the southern end of the thoroughfare released by the City of Melbourne. The release of the design follows the publication of the The Elizabeth Street Strategic Opportunities Plan in May 2019, which proposed to prioritize pedestrian, bicycle and public […] More

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    Former Alexandria industrial site’s new lease of life

    Andrew Burns Architecture and PBD Architects have designed an apartment complex that will be built inside and around an existing industrial site in Sydney’s Alexandria. The complex will comprise a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments split across two buildings. The design was procured through a competitive design alternative process, in which Bates Smart, […] More

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    Canberra visionary Enrico Taglietti posthumously recognized in Australia Day Honours

    Enrico Taglietti has been posthumously appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in the 2020 Australia Day Honours. The late modernist architect, who emigrated from Italy to Australia in 1955, passed away in May 2019. He was also awarded the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2007 Gold Medal. Taglietti has been recognized for his […] More