Architecture

Cox Architecture has designed a 31-storey office tower at 383 La Trobe Street in Melbourne’s courts precinct. The tower will house 44,000 square metres of A-Grade office space accommodating up to 4,000 future workers. The design incorporates open air terraces and “interconnected workplace villages,” with the precinct connecting visually to Flagstaff Gardens and linking through […] More

A new documentary on Richard Leplasterier, the Australian Institute of Architects’ 1999 Gold Medalist, will air on the ABC on 12 May. The film, which took 15 years to make, is written, directed and produced by Anna Cater. It takes a detailed look at the life and work of the much-lauded architect. “I grew up […] More

A treasure trove of modernist and Sydney School houses by some of Sydney’s best known architects has been protected, with Willoughby council granting heritage listing to a number of properties around the Castlecrag area. Among them are two houses by Harry Seidler and Associates, a Neville Gruzman house, and houses by Hugh Buhrich, Andre Porebski, […] More

Crone Architects has designed a skinny hotel tower that will rise above Sydney’s booming Midtown precinct. With an estimated cost of more than $80 million, the proposed 35-storey recycled brick tower at 375 Pitt Street will feature a transparent, multi-storey podium with hospitality, retail and workplace spaces along with a hotel lobby. The development will […] More

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