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City of Sydney has unveiled a new planning strategy for the city centre, which will allow for buildings of up to 330 metres to be built in new “clusters.” The strategy also calls for the simplification and unification of the central Sydney planning area to reabsorb The Rocks, Darling Harbour, Ultimo and Central Railway to […] More
Openwork has designed a garden for the Heide Museum of Modern Art that will harness the curative and healing properties of plants. The Healing Garden will be planted between Heide founder Sunday Reed’s original heritage-listed kitchen garden and the Heide cottage. Circular in space, the design of the garden draws on the concept of proxemics, […] More
Successive Victorian governments that have sold off public land to the private sector have wasted the opportunity to build public housing and address the state’s housing crisis, according to a study by urban researchers. The RMIT University study found that between 2000 and 2018, 578 hectares of Victorian public land parcels had been sold, which […] More
The NSW-ACT border town of Queanbeyan is set for a significant transformation with a $74 million civic and cultural precinct designed by Cox Architecture. The development will be located on the site of the former council administration building and will be a focal point of the town’s CBD. It will become the head office for […] More
A two-tower office development proposed for Sydney’s Central Station precinct has cleared a major hurdle, winning approval to move to the third and final stage of the NSW government’s unsolicited proposal process. Proponents Dexus and Frasers Property Australia are calling the proposal “Sydney’s most significant CBD development in over a decade,” which would transform the […] More
Terroir has completed its concept design of the proposed North West Museum and Art Gallery in Burnie, Tasmania. The project, to be located along the Bass Highway, will bring together the Burnie Regional Art Gallery and Burnie Regional Museum into one facility. Terroir was appointed to design the facility by Burnie City Council after what […] More
The cement base has been poured for a new 6,500 square metre park that will extend out over the Brisbane River at the mammoth Queen’s Wharf development in Brisbane. Destination Brisbane Consortium, the developer behind the controversial casino resort project, showed journalists the park’s base on 29 April. “That park will be river’s edge seating, […] More
Twenty-four major projects in New South Wales will have their fate decided within four weeks after the state government announced it would fast-track its assessment process to boost the economy amid the COVID-19 crisis. Among the first tranche of projects to be fast-tracked under the Planning System Acceleration Program are six schools, a university campus […] More
