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    Institute calls for donations for bushfire rebuilding effort

    The Australian Institute of Architects has launched a donation drive for its rebuild-focused charitable campaign in response to the ongoing bushfire crisis. The “Architects Donate” program aims to draw donations from Institute members for the eventual rebuilding effort, through the Institute’s own Foundation. The donation drive was first announced in early January as part of […] More

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    New $60k scholarship for women to study architecture

    Western Sydney University has introduced a new a $60,000 scholarship to encourage women’s participation in architecture, funded Frasers Property Australia. The scholarship will fund two years of study in the Master of Architecture (Urban Transformation) program. First established in 2019, the Master’s program is taught in a small cohort of 25 candidates, with a year-long […] More

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    Sydney Opera House concert hall redevelopment begins

    Construction has begun on the refurbishment of Sydney Opera House’s iconic Concert Hall – part of the biggest upgrade to the building since it opened in 1973. The renewal, designed by ARM Architecture, Schuler Shook and Müller-BBM, will include a new acoustic ceiling with specially designed acoustic reflectors, new automated drapes and a 3D surround-sound […] More

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    Bicycle bridge mooted for Brisbane

    The Queensland government is considering the addition of a new bicycle bridge connection in Brisbane. The proposed “velobridge” would connect the existing Kangaroo Point Bikeway to the government’s under-construction V1 cycleway. A public consultation period will precede the creation of a business case and the formal design process. The government has committed $1.6 million to […] More

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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