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Adam and Nikki Stewart’s Pettit+Sevitt home in Beacon Hill. Adam and the original owner swapped houses after Adam knocked on the door, offering to buy the house

Adam wanted a funky mid-century Sydney home. All he paid was stamp duty

The northern beaches furniture designer spent Sunday nights knocking on doors of houses he liked until he struck gold.

  • Julie Power

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Brisbane City Council has approved Shayher Group’s plan to convert the former fabrication workshop at Bulimba Barracks into a “new lifestyle precinct” including a supermarket, retail ad hospitality venues.

Brisbane River ‘lifestyle precinct’ finally given the green light

After a decade of planning, the transformation of an old Defence Force site can finally begin after Brisbane City Council gave its tick of approval.

  • Cameron Atfield
The Paragon in Katoomba.

The state of the iconic Paragon Cafe left everyone in shock. Now ‘enough is enough’

The NSW government is taking action against the owner of the heritage-listed art deco cafe in the Blue Mountains.

  • Julie Power
Giulia Di Sipio (left) and Jordy Kornfeld run the closest mental health service to this Brunswick West phone box.

Telstra wants three nondescript phone boxes heritage listed. Here’s why

Even in the age of mobile devices, these public phones have proven indispensable.

  • Lachlan Abbott
MLC Building, North Sydney.

MLC Building is on the heritage list but part of it might be razed

Developers have lodged plans to demolish a section of the languishing North Sydney office block for a 22-storey tower.

  • Megan Gorrey
Paragon, Katoomba

Inside the once-charming Paragon, a heartbreaking discovery is made

It epitomised glamour and fine dining for 110 years. Now, as our photos show, vandals have trashed its interior.

  • Julie Power
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New plans have been submitted for 47 Edward Street in Brisbane.

Heritage-listed Edward Street building to become four-level city pad

The Victorian warehouse, which has survived floods, a fire and changes to its use, is set to become a luxury apartment.

  • Sean Parnell
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
All but four of the buyers at the original auction in 2003 rescinded their offers.

Sydney’s most expensive swamp hits the market

The parcel of empty land will finally be sold off for homes, decades after the army moved out. The council says the move will do little to help the housing crisis.

  • Megan Gorrey
Pathways Cremorne Seniors Housing.

The fight against a seven-storey housing block in Sydney’s north

The government wants to build more seniors housing. Locals say this proposal will clog roads, drive down property values and impinge on heritage buildings.

  • Megan Gorrey

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