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Brisbane will host the 2032 Olympic Games, and it’s expected to put a rocket under housing prices.

Experts weigh in on Olympic planning, while avoiding stadium debate

Some of Australia’s peak professional bodies have remained agnostic on the location of stadiums while submitting road maps to the 100-day review.

  • Cameron Atfield

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Tim Ross is presenting a new show, The Australian Dream?, at the State Library of Queensland.

‘Just makes me swoon’: This is Rosso’s favourite house in Brisbane

The comedian and architecture fan loves the city’s distinctive homes, but says we have to rethink what affordable housing means for the future.

  • Nick Dent
The proposed ‘Gabba West’ stadium, across Main Street from the existing Gabba.

Timber stadium proposed for new, relocated Gabba

The architect pitching for a timber venue across the road from the existing stadium says it’s an Olympic solution that’s been “hiding in plain sight”.

  • Cameron Atfield
One of the small incremental changes made was to the threshold between the entrance and the front living area.

Don’t want a big reno? Doing less can create more

There are ways of increasing the sense of space and light. And doing less can often create significantly more, says an architect.

  • Stephen Crafti
A new design for Mt Druitt’s Dawson park has won a major award.

How 20km of coloured rope transformed this town square

Public art, improved lighting and imagination are making our suburbs safer and bringing communities together.

  • Julie Power
A render of the four bedroom apartment and its outdoor entertainment area and kitchen in the Glade block of the Sanctuary Development by Sekisui House developers at Wentworth Point.

The upside and downside to this $3.2m Sydney apartment

Infrastructure lags well behind development in Wentworth Point, but the riverside suburb does have one thing going for it.

  • Julie Power
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Three of the world’s most impressive hotel atriums are in the same city

Singapore’s dizzying architectural masterpieces have their origins with a style that sprung into being in America during the 1960s and ’70s.

  • Penny Watson
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
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

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