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Artists’ impression of Wilkinson Eyre’s proposal for a new Brisbane 2032 Olympic stadium at the Mayne Yards Queensland Rail stabling yards. Image supplied 08/01/2025.

The Mayne event: Concept promises to put 2032 Games back on the rails

An ambitious plan promises to put the 2032 Brisbane Olympic and Paralympic Games back on track. Literally.

  • Cameron Atfield

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The world’s highest open-air building ascent … City Climb.

Climb, hang, jump: 10 incredible skyscraper experiences

If you want to add a whole new meaning to hanging out, then harness up and climb, jump off or just lean out over these vertiginous skyscrapers.

  • Brian Johnston

What’s wrong with Melbourne? Nothing that these design gurus can’t fix

Putting aside our much-touted liveability, there’s no shortage of ideas to make our city even better ...

  • Ray Edgar
How Circular Quay got trapped in time, and why some fear for its future.

The single biggest obstacle to transforming Circular Quay

For as long as Circular Quay has existed, it’s been simultaneously adored and hated. And despite decades of attempts, no one seems able to get rid of the Cahill Expressway.

  • Julie Power and Anthony Segaert
The canopy pictured in March 2011, when the Chinatown Mall renovation was completed.

Brisbane’s missing Chinatown shade canopy gone for good

Barely a decade after Brisbane City Council installed a shade canopy in Fortitude Valley’s Chinatown Mall, it was considered in too poor a condition to remain.

  • Cameron Atfield
Dr Laura Ryan at her nearly off the grid home in Newtown.

One big bummer ruined Laura Ryan’s dream of going off-grid in the inner city

Dr Laura Ryan has been a guinea pig for how to go off the grid in a small inner-city terrace. She nearly succeeded, except for “one real bummer” that cut her energy production by half.

  • Julie Power
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How earthquakes strike.

Scientists know where the big earthquakes will hit. They just don’t know when

A lurch in the Earth’s tectonic plates can wreak havoc at any time – as we’ve just seen in Vanuatu. How do scientists measure quakes, and are we doing enough to prepare?

  • Sherryn Groch
The Gateway and Gemini buildings in Potts Point, and Roslyn Gardens in Rushcutters Bay, are under consideration for heritage listing.

‘Not a museum’: The Sydney apartment owners fighting heritage protection

A council wants to preserve nine boxy brick buildings from the 1950s and 60s. But some residents aren’t happy.

  • Megan Gorrey
Stokesay Court, Ludlow, Shropshire, where the movie, Atonement, was filmed.

‘I was in shock for a week after being told I’d inherited an 88-room mansion’

At age 40, Caroline Magnus was bequeathed the country estate where Atonement was filmed.

  • Eleanor Doughty
Reginald Grouse’s modernist dwelling doesn’t scream for attention like many modern homes.

The story of Reginald Grouse and his very cool house

This Japanese-inspired two-storey brick house – designed by architect Reginald Grouse more than 60 years ago – remains a thing of beauty decades later.

  • Stephen Crafti

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