Commercial architecture
‘Last piece of James Street puzzle’: Plans for Fortitude Valley office tower
A Melbourne-based developer has submitted plans to build what it claimed would be Brisbane’s best office tower outside the CBD.
- by Cameron Atfield
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Architecture
Family compound escapes demolition, becomes elegant home
Large home plots in Melbourne’s blue-chip Toorak tend to be a prime target for demolition.
- by Stephen Crafti
Living in the ’70s: Reinventing a Bayview beach house
The decade was defined by great music, cheap fuel and homes with open-plan living, but this residence missed out on that last key attribute.
- by Stephen Crafti
Homes from the ’80s scream for attention, but this river gem is different
A 40-odd-year-old home overlooking inner Melbourne’s Yarra couldn’t be more at odds with the ‘greed is good’ reputation of the 1980s.
- by Stephen Crafti
Overcoming heritage controls to design award-winning home
Heritage areas such as Albert Park can be tough places to design anything with a contemporary whiff.
- by Stephen Crafti
Brisbane home office clocks on to win architecture prize
In a sign of changing work-life dynamics, a Red Hill home-office renovation has won a national design award.
- by Liz Hobday
Enter this spectacular home via the stand-alone lift shaft on the street, please!
Visitors to the once-dilapidated fisherman’s cottage in Birchgrove, with spectacular Parramatta River views, enter via a stand-alone lift shaft on the street.
- by Stephen Crafti
Far from groovy: How did this 70s house win a top architecture award?
Think of sunken lounges - often referred to as “conversation pits” - indoor gardens, exposed timber ceilings, built-in bespoke joinery, and vast open plan entertaining areas.
- by Stephen Crafti
Australia’s most expensive apartment in the 1960s has had a luxurious facelift
Move over, Barangaroo and Paragon: this ’60s Fairlie apartment has top-end design in a highly coveted apartment block.
- by Stephen Crafti
Opinion
City life
Bloated, backward and banal, Vic Market rebuild is the opposite of good planning
Melbourne’s beloved city market is sensual, lively, and bustling with energy but is set to be overshadowed by a series of banal towers that look like they were produced by an AI robot.
- by Norman Day
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Housing crisis
The Goldilocks solution to Sydney’s housing crisis
Sydneysiders have revealed strong preferences about where and how they want to live, and how they feel about their neighbours.
- by Julie Power
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