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What, if anything, is a house? Can a farm be a house? A museum? A garden? These questions will be explored during an “engaging day of learning” in regional Victoria, with some of Australia’s most innovative architects presenting genre-bending “hybrid houses” that combine the function of living with something else. This edition of The Architecture […] More
A Portuguese architecture practice has won a design ideas competition for a replacement jetty in Melbourne with a design inspired by the geometry of a wave. Brookes Jetty at St Kilda Beach, near Luna Park and the Palais Theatre, was originally a 1.2-metre-wide slender timber structure at the end of a concrete storm water drain. […] More
The Australian Institute of Landscape Architects will consider whether a Landscape Architecture Award given in recognition of a green spine project in 2019 continues to be appropriate in light of the council’s decision to modify the project. The Council of Greater Geelong last week approved a plan to partially remove the Malop Street Green Spine […] More
Construction is underway on a $60 million project to revitalize Bendigo TAFE’s Bendigo City campus designed by Architectus and Six Degrees. The project comprises two new buildings – one on Hargreaves Street which will also create a prominent new entry to the campus and the other on Chapel Street – and the refurbishment of existing […] More
The Council of Greater Geelong has approved a plan to partially remove an award-winning green spine project in the Geelong CBD, less than two years after its completion. The Malop Street Green Spine was designed by Outlines Landscape Architecture, and won the Landscape Architecture Award for Civic Landscape at the National Landscape Architecture Awards in […] More
Infrastructure Australia has called on governments to fund infrastructure projects that boost resilience in its 2020 Infrastructure Priority List, as the consequences of inaction on climate change loom. The independent agency, funded by the federal government, provides research and advice on infrastructure to government and industry. The report, released annually, presents a list of major […] More
A new hotel due to open later in 2020 is set to the tallest timber adaptive reuse building in Australia. Bates Smart designed a 10 storey structure made from engineered timber that sits top of an existing office building in Melbourne’s Southbank. The Adina Apartment Hotel Melbourne Southbank is set to open later in 2020. […] More
Thomson Adsett has produced schematic designs for a dedicated mental health hospital facility for Cairns in Far North Queensland. Construction of the $70 million facility is due to begin this year. It will provide therapeutic services to aid in the recovery of acute mental health. It will replace the existing mental health unit, which will […] More
