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Beyond the Grave examines everything from people planning their own funerals to how cemeteries are designed. Tania Davlidge, executive director and curator of Open House, and Bjorn Nansen, University of Melbourne professor, specialist in digital death commemoration.

Designer deaths: From ocean paddles to sneakily scattered ashes, we’re doing things differently

Funeral at the pub? Sure. A digital avatar to remind loved ones about you? Why not. Death may be a constant, but our approach to it is changing dramatically.

  • Kerrie O'Brien

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Part of the Wangaratta District Specialist School, designed by Sibling Architecture. The project was 2024 winner of the AA Social Impact Award.

Who doesn’t need a hug? This exhibition will lift your mood

It’s a weighty issue, designing spaces for sensory needs. These architects invite you to be tucked into their sculptures.

  • Kerrie O'Brien
The variety of succulents and abstract art on the neighbour’s brick walls capture desert scenes.

Award-winning inner-city sanctuary gives a nod to the ’80s

The innovative Six Ways House, named after an intersection at its front door, has set neighbours’ tongues wagging.

  • Stephen Crafti
The award-winning home in suburban Newcastle’s Maryland, designed by Curious Practice, is named Aru.

An ‘insect’ house that touches the ground lightly

This simple interwar cottage, which was damaged in the 1989 Newcastle earthquake, is now an architectural treasure in harmony with its environs.

  • Stephen Crafti

Take a peek inside this art collector’s pink palace

A 1930s Spanish Mission-style house shows off the owner’s exuberant style.

  • Heather Nette King
Render of the proposed Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Aquatic Centre at Mount Coot-tha, designed by Richard Groves and Bates Smart architects.

Mount Coot-tha or Mount Olympus? Bold vision for Olympic pool to loom over Brisbane 2032

A Brisbane architect has come up with a bold plan for an Olympic pool on Mount Coot-tha, with a design that might not be as crazy as it sounds.

  • Cameron Atfield
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The interior of Australia’s Washington, DC embassy was praised by judges for its “casualness”.

Less ‘timidness’, more confidence: What our newest embassy buildings tell the world

Our consulate in Washington, DC, recently won a big gong. Like our embassies in Jakarta and Bangkok, it projects a new image of Australia to the world.

  • Luke Slattery
The sense of architectural history, with the retention of arches and stone walls, anchors the hotel in its locale.

This timeless hotel combines history, design and craftsmanship

Five historic buildings brought seamlessly up-to-date provide a place for people to slow down and connect in this charming Porto hotel.

  • Karen McCartney
Michael Patroni and the spaceagency team outside their offices in Fremantle.

Design of the times: award-winning Perth architect reflects on four decades of building and designing hospitality hotspots

From pioneering craft beer brewpubs to breezy cafes and new-wave hotels, Michael Patroni has seen – and designed – it all.

  • Max Veenhuyzen
How Lego's little world became a giant leap.
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One small brick for man, one giant leap for mankind

How Lego's little world became a giant leap.

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