urban developments
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Working where the grass is greener: Turner Studio’s Norwest Business Park
This Sydney business park by Turner Studio has its own amenity-rich mixed-use precinct – a slice of CBD life in the ‘burbs.
Ideas
Simon says we ought to be thinking outside the CBD
Simon Pole, global design director at Unispace, says that the CBD has had it too good for too long. As workplace designers, this is our moment to look beyond the office towers.
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Brisbane’s olde ‘Shop Row’ has a neighbourly new vibe
What happens when an architect and a businessman, with neighbouring offices in a dated urban strip, join forces to redevelop their heritage-listed locale?
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SJB, DBJ and TZG teach us a lesson in design excellence
Radical collaboration between three of Australia’s leading architecture studios and local council has realised Newcastle as an exemplar of design excellence objectives at work.
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Woods Bagot’s progressive vision for Penrith CBD
Woods Bagot has conquered its competition in the bid to design the adaptive reuse of Penrith’s former Council Chambers into a new commercial building set to revitalise the CBD.
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Y-Loft City by Superimpose counters design convention
Three Bauhaus shaped multi-residences have brought a hinterland region in China rapidly up to speed with modern urbanity and the lifestyles of the Y generation.
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Just revealed One Sydney Harbour penthouse designs give us a glimpse of the high life
Complete with interiors by Daniel Goldberg, two penthouse ‘Skyhomes’ are envisioned to consummate the luxurious Lendlease development that is Residences Two, One Sydney Harbour.
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A new benchmark for sustainable development has been set
What began with a developer’s desire to create Australia’s first medium-density 8-star townhouse development at scale alongside Northcote’s Merri Creek has grown into an unusually holistic exemplar of sustainable living.
News
Australia’s next architectural masterpiece seeks designer
With a new architectural competition just announced, those who comprise the design community in Australia have the opportunity of a lifetime – to create something that will change and enhance the landscape of Melbourne, art and architecture forever.
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“AACC will be a building of the 21st century, flexing to curation, use and time”
Concept designs by Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Woods Bagot for a new Aboriginal Art and Cultures Centre in Adelaide have been revealed.
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Behold the timeless winning design for Pier Pavilion, Sydney
Jessica Spresser may be an emerging Australian architect but her design for Pier Pavilion — a new public pavilion to be developed at Barangaroo, Sydney — is timeless.