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Judy Mundey looks up at a mural that shows her late husband Jack Mundey - in the upper right with a loudspeaker - a leader of the Builders Labourer Federation and the green ban movement which saved the ’Loo for working-class people and defeated a proposal for highrise.

These murals honour Sydney’s hero of heritage. Will they be preserved themselves?

Murals depicting the Woolloomooloo community joining unions to save the historic area from development are fading. And not everyone wants them repainted.

  • Julie Power

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The original Sydney House was built in 1951.

Everything old is new again as Brisbane’s best house is crowned

Like many New Farm locals, Pip and Nick Spiro lusted after Sydney House, a postwar brick house, for years before they seized the opportunity to buy it.

  • Marissa Calligeros
Tadao Ando’s concrete pavilion at the Queen Victoria Gardens has been offered to the City of Melbourne.

Serene and stunning, this beloved concrete slab has its own security guard

Over 300,000 people have made the pilgrimage to MPavilion 10. Now this Melbourne icon faces its own Eiffel Tower moment.

  • Norman Day
A design carrying the name Archer Designs for a 500metre square apartment at Altair which was withdrawn after owners ciriticism.

More like a tomb than luxury apartments: The plans dividing Sydney’s elite

It’s home to celebrities, politicians, lawyers, bankers and Hare Krishnas, but how will the Altair’s forecourt redevelopment turn out?

  • Julie Power
Stahl House’s pool with a view.

Seven incredible modernist homes in LA you can visit

Architectural innovation is a constant in the City of Angels, where modernism has flourished and dream homes are always on the agenda.

  • Margaret Barca
CLT with TLC.

New Sydney homes that go up ‘like a Lego kit’

A leading architect whose clients include 20 of Australia’s richest people is experimenting with fast, sustainable materials on a row of four terraces in Bondi Junction.

  • Julie Power
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The East Balmain project from Johnston Studio looked to the immediate leafy environment for its mix of olive green and timber cabinetry.

The one colour you should not paint your kitchen, according to the experts

This colour was once the last word in stylish minimalism, but a new breed of designers, architects and home owners are embracing a much richer palette for the hardest-working room in the house.

  • Robyn Willis
Historian Zeny Edwards, right, has written a book about the mosaics of the Melocco Brothers, including this example in the State Library of NSW.

The forgotten and overlooked Sydney art you may be standing on right now

The Melocco brothers painted in stone, and their work turned architecture into art in places nearly every Sydneysider has visited. Look down, or you may miss it.

  • Julie Power

A ‘perfect’ inner-city pad set on 30 square metres? One architect’s ‘Goldilocks’ rule

Adam Haddow’s own house is set on a tiny plot. Now he’s focused on his Victorian home town with designs that are not too big, not too small – but just right.

  • Luke Slattery
Hillam Architects’ Riviere Residence in Applecross.

Fear of heights: Why do Perth people resist apartment living?

Medium and high-density housing is the norm for much of the world. But Perth people are reluctant to abandon their mega-sized homes and enjoy the benefits of apartment living.

  • Mark Naglazas

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